The University of Colorado Law School congratulates Associate Professor Harry Surden for receiving the Provost's Faculty Achievement Award for his work on legal informatics, artificial intelligence, law, legal automation, and autonomous vehicles.
The faculty committee pointed to his influential article, “Machine Learning and Law,” which appeared in 2014 in the Washington Law Review. In the article, which has been highly cited and widely discussed, Surden recognizes the importance of artificial intelligence within the practice of law while refuting all, or even most, of the tasks routinely performed by attorneys are automatable.
“This is a well-deserved honor for Professor Surden, whose research and scholarship is at the forefront of intellectual property and technology law,” said S. James Anaya, dean and Distinguished University Professor.
The annual Provost’s Faculty Achievement Awards are presented to selected faculty members who have offered recent significant publications or creative contributions in their academic fields. Surden will be recognized at an October 5 awards ceremony.
Surden joined the Colorado Law faculty in 2008. His scholarship focuses on 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.