Harry Surden

University of Colorado Law School

Full Professor of Law

401 UCB

Boulder, CO 80309

United States

http://lawweb.colorado.edu/profiles/profile.jsp?id=316

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

21

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43

Scholarly Papers (21)

1.

Artificial Intelligence and Law: An Overview

Georgia State University Law Review, Vol. 35, 2019, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-22
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 25,638 (233)
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artificial intelligence, ai, law, machine learning, prediction, informatics

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Machine Learning and Law

Washington Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2014
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 9,223 (1,381)
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machine learning, predictive coding, artificial intelligence, AI, patent, intellectual property, IP, copyright, computer, statistics, statistical

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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Law: Basic Questions

Forthcoming chapter in Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, 2020, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-29
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2020
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 4,108 (5,512)
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How Self-Driving Cars Work

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 May 2016 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2017
Harry Surden and Mary-Anne Williams
University of Colorado Law School and University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Downloads 3,234 (8,152)
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self-driving cars, autonomous, artificial intelligence, driverless

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Computable Contracts

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 629, 2012
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 13 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2014
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 2,868 (9,800)
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Technological Opacity, Predictability, and Self-Driving Cars

Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 38, 2016
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 12 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2016
Harry Surden and Mary-Anne Williams
University of Colorado Law School and University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Downloads 2,532 (11,981)
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self-driving cars, autonomous, robotics, robot, autonomous vehicles, automation, tort law, prediction, Google

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ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language Models, and Law

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 92, 2024, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-15
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Apr 2024
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
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Values Embedded in Legal Artificial Intelligence

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-17
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 15 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2021
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 1,629 (24,075)
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Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Values

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Machine Learning and Law: An Overview

Forthcoming Chapter in "Research Handbook on Big Data Law"
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Oct 2020
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 1,266 (35,070)
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law, machine-learning, artificial intelligence, AI

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Structural Rights in Privacy

SMU Law Review, Vol. 60, pp. 1605-1629, 2007
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2015
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 1,042 (46,433)
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privacy, regulation, structure, architecture, rights, interests, copyright, intellectual property, RFID, Hohfeld, rules, standards, transaction, transaction costs, Lessig,constraints, records, technology, emerging, latent

11.

Artificial Intelligence and Constitutional Interpretation

96 University of Colorado Law Review 413 (2025) , Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 24-30, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-39
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 12 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2025
Andrew Coan and Harry Surden
University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law and University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 789 (68,193)
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AI, artificial intelligence, LLM, large language models, constitutional interpretation, formalism, realism, originalism, constraint, interpretation

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What to Teach Law Students About Artificial Intelligence and Law?

Northwestern Law Review Online (Bridges II), (2017)
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 17 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2018
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
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artificial intelligence, law

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The Variable Determinacy Thesis

Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2010-11
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 03 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 498 (122,184)
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determinacy, indeterminacy, automation, computability, automated legal reasoning, legal reasoning, computers, computation, computable, automated, determinate, indeterminate, meta-rules

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AI Loyalty by Design: A Framework for Governance of AI

Oxford Handbook on AI Governance (Oxford University Press, 2022 Forthcoming), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-28
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2021
University of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, University of Colorado Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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trustworthy AI, fiduciary, AI governance

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Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law

96 Colorado Law Review pp. 376 - 411 (2025), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-8
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 10 Apr 2025 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2025
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
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Artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, LLMs, Large Language Models, AI, Automation, AI and Law

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Computable Law and Artificial Intelligence

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-2, Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming 2024)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Jan 2024 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2024
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
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artificial intelligence, law, computable law, computable contracts

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Naïve Realism, Cognitive Bias, and the Benefits and Risks of AI

Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 23-11
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 03 May 2023
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
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AI, law, artificial intelligence, chatgpt, llm

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AI loyalty: A New Paradigm for Aligning Stakeholder Interests

A. Aguirre, G. Dempsey, H. Surden and P. B. Reiner, "AI Loyalty: A New Paradigm for Aligning Stakeholder Interests," in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 128-137, Sept. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TTS.2020.3013490.
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2024
University of California, Santa Cruz, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Colorado Law School and Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
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AI assistant, fiduciary, loyalty, AI ethics

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Efficient Uncertainty in Patent Interpretation

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 68, p. 1737, 2011
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 07 Dec 2011
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
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claim construction, patent, interpretation, set theory, jurisprudence, constraint satisfaction, markman, Phillips, theory, uncertainty, indeterminacy

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Technological Cost as Law in Intellectual Property

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 27, No. 1, p. 135, 2013
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 24 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2014
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School
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intellectual property, patent, copyright, theory, transaction costs, technological cost, technology, rights, IP, properties, IP theory, intellectual property

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Representational Complexity in Law

Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law, 193 (2007)
Posted: 02 Feb 2017
Harry Surden
University of Colorado Law School

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Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 173
1.

Computable Contracts Project: Executive Summary

Number of pages: 1 Posted: 23 Aug 2017
Vermont Law School, Stanford University - Stanford Codex Center and University of Colorado Law School
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