Jeffrey Shealy Carter-Johnson
Senior Lecturer
Phone
312-503-3988
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Assistant
Francesca Bullerman
Assistant Phone
(312) 503-1570
Assistant Email
Francesca.Bullerman@law.northwestern.edu
Biography
Professor Jeff Carter-Johnson (JCJ to his students) is a Senior Lecturer at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Previously, JCJ was at Michigan State University College of Law where he taught in both the JD and Global Food Law Programs. During his time at MSU, he served as a Special Projects Coordinator to develop the Global Food Law Program and oversaw the MSU Startup Project – a forerunner of the current Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship Clinic. His teaching interests include intellectual property and classes at the intersection of law and science. JCJ has also coached several intellectual property moot court teams to national finals. He is also registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and has worked as a consultant. JCJ received his J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis where he was a Scholar in Law awardee. He also obtained his Ph.D. in Microbiology from the University of Virginia where he attended as a Presidential Fellow. He received his B.S. in Biology from Old Dominion University. In addition to his scientific publications, Professor Carter-Johnson has also published in the area of university research, licensing, and bioinformatics.
Areas of Expertise
- Contracts
- Intellectual Property Law
- BioLaw
Courses
Selected Publications
- University Research and Licensing, in Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and the Law 133, edited by Jorge L. Contreras, A. James Cuticchia & Gregory J. Kirsch (2022) (with Jennifer Carter-Johnson & Jorge L. Contreras).
- University Research and Licensing, in Bioinformatics Law: Legal Issues For Computational Biology in the Post-Genome Era 97, edited by Jorge Contreras & A. James Cuticchia (2013) (with Jennifer Carter-Johnson & Jorge L. Contreras).
- Adenovirus Protein VII Functions Throughout Early Phase and Interacts with Cellular Proteins SET and pp32, 79 Journal of Virology 2474 (2005) (with Yuming Xue, David Ornelles, Judy Lieberman & Daniel Engel).
- Adenovirus Protein VII Condenses DNA, Represses Transcription, and Associates with Transcriptional Activator E1A, 78 Journal of Virology 6459 (2004) (with Yvette Osheim, Yuming Xue, Margaret Emanuel, Peter Lewis, Alex Bankovich, Ann Beyer & Daniel Engel).
- Adenovirus Type 5 DNA-Protein Complexes from Formaldehyde Cross-Linked Cells Early After Infection, 312 Virology 204 (2003) (with David Spector, Nicholas Baird & Daniel Engel).
Education
- BS Biology, Old Dominion University
- Ph.D Microbiology, University of Virginia
- JD, Washington University School of Law in St. Louis