Christie Lawrence | Kellogg Hansen

Education

Stanford Law School, J.D., with highest pro-bono distinction, 2024
- Lead and Member Editor, Stanford Technology Law Review
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, M.P.P., 2024
- John F. Kennedy Fellowship
Duke University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2016
- Phi Beta Kappa

Clerkships

Law Clerk, Judge Richard G. Taranto, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2024–2025

Admitted

2026, District of Columbia

Christie Lawrence joined Kellogg Hansen as an associate in 2025.

Prior to joining the firm, Christie served as a law clerk to Judge Richard G. Taranto of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Christie graduated from Stanford Law School, where she was a lead and member editor for the Stanford Technology Law Review and member of the Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic. While at Stanford, she was awarded the John Hart Ely Prize for Outstanding Performance for her work with a policy practicum on net neutrality. She earned a Master in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she received the John F. Kennedy Fellowship as well as various fellowships related to foreign policy. Christie earned her undergraduate degree in public policy from Duke University, graduating magna cum laude and with highest departmental distinction.

Articles, News & Events

Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns: Designing a Scalable Adverse Event Reporting System for AI, Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, October 2025.
AI Regulation Has Its Own Alignment Problem: The Technical and Institutional Feasibility of Disclosure, Registration, Licensing, and Auditing, 92 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1473 (2024).
Transparency of AI EO Implementation: An Assessment 90 Days In, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, February 2024.
The AI Regulatory Alignment Problem, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Stanford Regulation, Evaluation and Governance Lab (RegLab), November 2023.
By the Numbers: Tracking The AI Executive Order, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, November 2023.
Decoding the White House AI Executive Order’s Achievements, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, November 2023
The Bureaucratic Challenge to AI Governance: An Empirical Assessment of Implementation at U.S. Federal Agencies, Proceedings of the Sixth AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, August 2023.
Implementation Challenges to Three Pillars of America’s AI Strategy, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI and the Stanford Regulation, Evaluation and Governance Lab (RegLab), December 2022.
Enhancing International Cooperation in AI Research: The Case for a Multilateral AI Research Institute, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI, May 2022.
Cyberspace: What Happens After Norms?, Italian Institute for International Political Studies, September 2021.
Prospects for US-Russia Cyber Rules of the Road: An American Perspective, Russia Matters and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affair’s Cyber Project and U.S.-Russia Initiative to Prevent Nuclear Terrorism, June 2021.
The Case for Increased Transatlantic Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence, The Cyber Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, August 2020.
Turkey or the Kurds: How to Prioritize Security and Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policymaking. Proceedings of the 24th International Political Science Association’s World Congress of Political Science, July 2016 (on file with author).