Christopher Morten

Christopher Morten is a lawyer who currently teaches at Columbia Law School as an associate clinical professor. He is the director of Columbia’s Science, Health & Information Clinic (SHIC). Chris’s clinical work, research, and writing focus on access to knowledge, with particular emphasis on science, technology, and health justice. Much of his work seeks to expand access to medicines and access to information about medicines. Before coming to Columbia Law in 2021, Chris worked at New York University School of Law, as the deputy director and clinical teaching fellow of NYU’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic. He clerked for the Honorable Timothy B. Dyk of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 2015 to 2016. Chris received his J.D., magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from New York University, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B.A. in chemistry, summa cum laude, from Columbia University.