Professor Natalie Ram was quoted in "8 Ways Doing a Genealogy DNA Test Can Come Back to Bite You—And Even Cause Legal Problems" in Reader's Digest on October 20, 2026.
Ram is a leading scholar on the intersection of genetic privacy and the law. She is professor of law at Maryland Carey Law and adjunct faculty with the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University.
“Nobody is against catching serial killers, but privacy is also a really important human value—and an American legal value, in particular.”