Harry Surden
Professor of Law
Selected Publications
Surden (with Andrew Coan), Artificial Intelligence and Constitutional Interpretation, University of Colorado Law Review (2025). |
Artificial Intelligence and Law - An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law, University of Colorado Law Review (2025). |
Computable Law and Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (2024). |
ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models, and Law, Fordham Law Review (2024). |
Naïve Realism, Cognitive Bias, and the Benefits and Risks of AI, Yale Journal on Regulation Online, Notice and Comment (Spring 2023). |
Values Embedded in Legal Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Technology and Society, peer-reviewed (Spring 2022). |
Surden (with Anthony Aguirre, Peter Bart Reiner, & Gaia Dempsey), AI Loyalty and Governance in The Oxford Handbook on Artificial Intelligence Governance, Oxford University Press (2022). |
Machine Learning and Law: An Overview, in Research Handbook on Big Data Law (Roland Vogl, ed.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021). |
Surden (with Anthony Aguirre, Gaia Dempsey, and Peter Bart Reiner), AI Loyalty: A New Paradigm for Aligning Stakeholder Interests, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (2020). |
The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Law: Basic Questions, Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (2020). |
Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview, 35 Georgia State University Law Review (2019). |
What to Teach Law Students About Artificial Intelligence and Law?, (Bridges II) Northwestern Law Review Online (2017). |
Technological Opacity, Predictability, and Self-Driving Cars, 38 Cardozo Law Review 121 (2016). |
Machine Learning and Law, 89 Washington Law Review 87 (2014). |
Technological Cost as Law in Intellectual Property, 27 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 135 (2013). |
Computable Contracts, 46 U.C. Davis Law Review 629 (2012). |
Efficient Uncertainty in Patent Interpretation, 68 Wash & Lee L. Rev 1737 (2011). |
The Variable Determinacy Thesis, 12 Columbia Science and Technology Law Review 1 (2010-2011). |
Structural Rights in Privacy, 60 SMU Law Rev. 1605 (2007). |
Surden (with Michael Genesereth & Bret Logue), Representational Complexity in Law, Proc. 11th Int'l Conf. on Artificial Intelligence & L. 193 (2007). |
Selected Press, Media & Publicity
Courses:
Fall 2025 | Torts | LAWS 5425-802 |
Fall 2025 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-801 |
Spring 2025 | Seminar: Computers and the Law | LAWS 8321-801 |
Fall 2024 | Torts | LAWS 5425-802 |
Fall 2024 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-801 |
Spring 2024 | Seminar: Computers and the Law | LAWS 8321-801 |
Fall 2023 | Torts | LAWS 5425-802 |
Fall 2023 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-801 |
Spring 2023 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-801 |
Fall 2021 | Torts | LAWS 5425-801 |
Fall 2021 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-801 |
Spring 2021 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-801 |
Fall 2020 | Torts | LAWS 5425-802 |
Fall 2020 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-801 |
Spring 2020 | Problem Solving, Professional Judgment, and Decision Making | LAWS 6813-801 |
Spring 2020 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-801 |
Fall 2019 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-801 |
Spring 2019 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-801 |
Spring 2019 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-902 |
Spring 2019 | Seminar: Computers and the Law | LAWS 8321-801 |
Spring 2019 | Seminar: Computers and the Law | LAWS 8321-902 |
Fall 2018 | Torts | LAWS 5425-803 |
Fall 2017 | Torts | LAWS 5425-803 |
Fall 2017 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-001 |
Spring 2017 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-001 |
Fall 2016 | Torts | LAWS 5425-804 |
Fall 2016 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-001 |
Spring 2016 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-001 |
Spring 2016 | Seminar: Computers and the Law | LAWS 8321-001 |
Fall 2014 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-001 |
Fall 2014 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-001 |
Spring 2014 | Problem Solving, Professional Judgment, and Decision Making | LAWS 6813-001 |
Spring 2014 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-001 |
Spring 2014 | Journal: Colorado Technology Law Journal | LAWS 7936-901 |
Spring 2014 | Journal: Colorado Technology Law Journal | LAWS 7936-902 |
Spring 2014 | Journal: Colorado Technology Law Journal | LAWS 7946-901 |
Spring 2014 | LL.M Thesis | LAWS 9856-903 |
Fall 2013 | Torts | LAWS 5425-801 |
Fall 2013 | Journal: Colorado Technology Law Journal | LAWS 7936-901 |
Fall 2013 | Journal: Colorado Technology Law Journal | LAWS 7936-902 |
Fall 2013 | Journal: Colorado Technology Law Journal | LAWS 7946-901 |
Spring 2013 | Patent Law | LAWS 7311-001 |
Fall 2012 | Torts | LAWS 5425-801 |
Fall 2012 | Introduction to Intellectual Property Law | LAWS 6301-001 |
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a supportive and diverse educational and scholarly community in a place that inspires vigorous pursuit of ideas, critical analysis, contemplation, and civic engagement to advance knowledge about the law in an open, just society.
Our Mission
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