Jessica Wilen Berg

Jessica Wilen Berg is an American attorney and specialist in Bioethics and Public Health Law. She is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis School of Law. She previously served as co-Dean at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, the first female co-Dean or Dean in the law school's 129-year history. She is a reference book author in the area of informed consent.

Education Berg graduated as a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1991.

She was Director of Academic Affairs and member of the working group on Healthcare Organizational Ethics of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and Secretary of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs for the American Medical Association. As part of an academic group with Max Mehlman and others, in 2006 she was a recipient of a large NIH research grant to develop guidelines for the use of human subjects in genetic research. In 2008, Berg was named Health Policy Researcher of the Year by the Health Policy Institute of Ohio, and she received the Case Western Reserve University Mather Spotlight Award for Excellence in Research in 2009.