Your child's best friend might be a chatbot. What are the risks and what can we do to reduce them?

Sari Mazzurco

Sari Mazzurco is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Professor Mazzurco's teaching and scholarship focus on law and technology and intellectual property. She writes on the role and limits of law in addressing social, political, and cultural issues associated with digital technologies, information markets, and creative expression. Professor Mazzurco's work has appeared or is forthcoming in The University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, Boston University Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, among other leading flagship and specialty law journals. Before joining SMU Dedman Law, Professor Mazzurco earned a Ph.D. in Law at Yale University, where she served as a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. She previously worked as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP where she counseled clients on data privacy, defamation, copyright, and trademark issues, advised on technology transactions, and represented sports and media companies in litigation. She also clerked for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Mazzurco received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University with Honors with Distinction in Government. She also served as a U.S. Department of State Boren Fellow to Israel, where she studied technology diplomacy.