Biography
Harry Surden is the inaugural fellow at the Stanford Center for Computers and the Law (CodeX), an interdisciplinary research center jointly operated by Stanford Law School and the Stanford School of Engineering. His research focuses on computer-assisted legal compliance and the application of computer science theoretical frameworks to law, as well as issues related to intellectual property.
Surden graduated in 2005 with honors from Stanford Law School, where he was chief research assistant to Professor Lawrence Lessig and the recipient of the 2005 Stanford Law Intellectual Property Writing Award. He comes to the fellowship after a 2005-2006 clerkship with the Honorable Martin J. Jenkins, United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Prior to law school, Surden worked as a software engineer for Cisco Systems and Bloomberg L.P.
Publications
- Co-author, "IPX: The Intellectual Property Exchange" (expected 2008)
- Co-authored "Representational Complexity in Law," Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference of Artificial Intelligence and Law, 193 (2007)
- "A Theory of Structural Privacy Rights," 60 Southern Methodist University Law Review (2007)
Field of Interest/Expertise:
- Intellectual Property, Technology and the Law, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy Law
In the News
- hsurden@stanford.edu