Mark Potkewitz
Lecturer, M.S. Technology Management
Mark Potkewitz is an attorney at Bortstein Legal Group where his practice focuses on technology transactions for heavily regulated financial services firms.
He teaches Law for Technology at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law School in the Brooklyn Law Incubator and Policy (BLIP) Clinic.
Mark serves as Fellow and General Counsel for ForHumanity, an AI ethics nonprofit and is co-chair of the AI subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association’s Technology, Cyber, and Privacy Committee.
He regularly presents on matters related to financial industry regulations, artificial intelligence, privacy, and technology and the law. Mark is a former Director of the Legal Innovation Centre at Ulster University in Belfast, UK, and Course Director of the LLM/MSc Corporate Law, Computing and Innovation at Ulster University where he taught International Intellectual Property Law; Law, Politics, and Governance; and Legal Technology, Innovation, and Informatics.
Courses:
- TMGT PS5125: Law for Technology
Education
Mark earned his AB from Washington University in Saint Louis and his Juris Doctor (cum laude) from Brooklyn Law School, where he was the Irving Friedberg Endowed Scholar, and received awards including: the Dean Jerome Prince Prize for excellence in Evidence Law; the Judge Doris A. Thompson and Judge Edward Thompson Award for excellence in Professional Skills.
Publications
- "Using human-centred design to develop empathy and supports for litigants in person”, Ulster University
- “A risk-based approach to assessing liability risk for AI-driven harms considering EU liability directive Self-assessment of liability risk for AI-driven harms”, ArXiv
- “A Vision of Science Gateways: Bridging the Gap and Broadening the Outreach”, PEARC ’21: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing
- “Commentary on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Privacy Principles”, MIT Computational Law Report