Justin Curl

Hello! I am currently a Fellow at the MacArthur Foundation and a J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School. Recently, I served as Technology Law & Policy Advisor to New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez.

Before law school, I worked as an AI researcher at Microsoft Research Asia, was a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Science from Princeton University, where I was fortunate to be advised by Arvind Narayanan.

I am interested in the intersection of technology and the law. You can find some of my writing below.

Public Writing

• Judges Shouldn’t Rely on AI for the Ordinary Meaning of Text
  Justin Curl, Peter Henderson, Kart Kandula & Faiz Surani
  Lawfare (2025)
• A Financial Primer on a New International AI Organization
  Justin Curl
  Lawfare (2024)
• Policy Comment on Democracy and Generative AI
  Edward Tian, Justin Curl & Sihao Huang
  President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (2023)
• Decoding China’s Ambitious Generative AI Regulations
  Justin Curl & Sihao Huang
  Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (2023)

Research & Scholarship

• Foreseeably Discriminatory: Modernizing the Equal Protection Clause for AI Systems
  Justin Curl & Emily Hua
  Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming 2025)
• A Blueprint for Auditing Generative AI
  Jakob Mökander, Justin Curl & Mihir Kshirsagar
  Research Handbook on Law of Artificial Intelligence (2d ed. 2025)
• Defending ChatGPT against Jailbreak Attack via Self-Reminder
  Yueqi Xie, Jingwei Yi, Jiawei Shao, Justin Curl, Lingjuan Lyu, Qifeng Chen, Xing Xie & Fangzhao Wu
  Nature Machine Intelligence (2023)

Feel free to get in touch over email at justincurl13 at gmail dot com

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