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A. Bryan Endres
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A. Bryan Endres is an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Law in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. He also holds appointments with the Business, Economics and Law program (BioBEL) and the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) at the University’s Institute for Genomic Biology. His current legal research interests include agricultural biotechnology, intellectual property, sustainable agriculture, land use, renewable fuels and food security. He has taught courses in Agricultural Law, Food Law, Law and Regulation of Biotechnology, and Tax Policy. Prior to his appointment at the University of Illinois, he practiced law with Steptoe & Johnson LLP in Phoenix, Arizona as a commercial and intellectual property litigator. He also served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Haldane Robert Mayer of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. Bryan is admitted to practice law in Illinois, Arizona and Maryland, is the Vice Chair of the Illinois State Bar Association’s Agricultural Law Section Council and is a Vice Chair (Membership) of the American Bar Association’s Agricultural Management committee. In 2008, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Agricultural Law Association. Bryan earned a B.S in Economics from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York (1992) and a M.S. in Administrative Management from the European Division of Bowie State University (1995). After five years of service as an Army officer, he attended the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was a member of the Illinois Law Review and Order of the Coif (2000).