Mark Chinen

Mark Chinen

Assistand Dean for AI Education and Practice and Professor of Law

 Sullivan Hall 456

 206-398-4040

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Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Expertise, Education, Affiliations, Courses

Areas of Expertise

  • International Law
  • Law and Artificial Intelligence

Education

  • B.A., cum laude, Pomona College, 1981
  • M.Div., magna cum laude, Yale Divinity School, 1984
  • J.D., cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1988; Harvard International Law Review associate editor

Biography

Mark Chinen is Professor of Law and Assistant Dean for AI Education and Practice at the Seattle University School of Law. He was educated at Pomona College and Yale Divinity School before receiving his law degree from Harvard Law School. Before he began law teaching, Professor Chinen practiced in the areas of international trade, banking and corporate and securities law in Washington D.C. with the firm, Covington & Burling. Professor Chinen teaches the 'law' of artificial intelligence, contracts, business entities, and international business transactions. He has written two books on artificial intelligence: one on AI and legal responsibility and the other on the international governance of AI, as well as articles on various aspects of international law, theology and law, and the relationship between domestic and international law. Professor Chinen was a commissioner on the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. He was the inaugural William C. Oltman Professor of Teaching Excellence from 2007 to 2010.

Publications

Books

  • The International Governance of Artificial Intelligence (2023)
  • Law and Autonomous Machines: The Co-Evolution of Artificial Intelligence and Technology (2019)

Articles and Book Chapters

  • International Governance of AI, Handbook of Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence 1821 (Wei Xu ed., 2025-2026)
  • Human rights, in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence and the Law 217 (Ryan Abbott & Elizabeth Rothman eds., 2025)
  • Faith, Technology, and “the Powers”, Reflections (Spring 2024)
  • AI, Business, and International Human Rights, 51 J. Fin. Transformation (2024)
  • Governing Complexity, in Complexity and Law: Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence 151 (Jamie Murray, Tom Webb, & Stephen Wheatley eds., 2018)
  • The Co-evolution of Legal Responsibility and Autonomous Machines, 20 Va. J. L. Tech. 338 (2016)
  • The Standard of Compensation for Takings, 25 Minn. J. Int’l L. 335 (2016)
  • Complexity Theory and the Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of State Responsibility, 25 Eur. J. Int’l L. 703 (2014)
  • Complexity Theory and the Legal Responsibility of Global Economic Actors, in International Economic Law and African Development 9 (Laurence Boulle, Emmanuel Laryea & Franziska Sucker eds., 2014)
  • Crumbs from the Table: The Syrophoenician Woman and International Law, 27 J. L. & Relig. 1 (2011-2012).
  • Teaching as a Form of Love, 9 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 221 (2010).
  • Matters of Preference: Tracing the Line between Citizens, Democratic States, and International Law (with Lana Ellis), 19 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 419 (2010).
  • Secrecy and Democratic Decisions, 27 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 1 (2009).
  • On Lawyers and Good Samaritans: A Reflection, 4 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 497 (2006).
  • Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan and the Use of Procedural and Substantive Heuristics for Consensus, 27 Mich. J. Int’l L. 55 (2005).
  • Game Theory and Customary International Law: A Response to Professors Goldsmith and Posner, 23 Mich. J. of Int'l L. 143 (2001).
  • Presidential Certifications in U.S. Foreign Policy Legislation, 31 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 217 (1999)