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401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309
Office: 427
Phone: (303) 492-7840
E-mail: hsurden@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Personal Link: Bio:Harry Surden is a Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. He joined the faculty in 2008. His scholarship focuses upon legal informatics, artificial intelligence and law (including machine learning and law), legal automation, and issues concerning self-driving/autonomous vehicles. He also studies intellectual property law with a substantive focus on patents and copyright, and information privacy law.
Prior to joining CU, Professor Surden was a resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX) at Stanford Law School. In that capacity, Professor Surden conducted interdisciplinary research with collaborators from the Stanford School of Engineering exploring the application of computer technology towards improving the legal system. He was also a member of the Stanford Intellectual Property Litigation Clearinghouse and the director of the Computer Science and Law Initiative.
Professor Surden was law clerk to the Honorable Martin J. Jenkins of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. He received his law degree from Stanford Law School with honors and was the recipient of the Stanford Law Intellectual Property Writing Award.
Prior to law school, Professor Surden worked as a software engineer for Cisco Systems and Bloomberg L.P. He received his undergraduate degree with honors from Cornell University.
Professor Surden is an Affiliated Faculty Member at The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX).
Selected Publications
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:
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 |