Dr. Mason Kortz

Biography

Mason Kortz is a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, specializing in areas combining technology and law. He serves as a clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic, where he has been involved since January 2017. His work primarily focuses on the intersection of civil rights, government transparency, and police oversight through legal training and technical perspectives. He supervises students working on various projects, including public records lawsuits, amicus briefs, and administrative comments. Mason is actively engaged in the emerging field of law concerning artificial intelligence and algorithmic decision-making, having written and presented on its impacts across diverse areas, including intellectual property and criminal law. In 2021, he taught a reading group on law and algorithms. Before his current role, he worked as a data manager at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, and as a legal fellow at the Technology and Liberty Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in Massachusetts. He also clerked for the District Court in Massachusetts. Mason holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Dartmouth College. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, political activism, and game design.

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