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Cullen O'Keefe

Cullen O’Keefe

Director of Research

Cullen O’Keefe

Director of Research
Area of Expertise:
AI agents Compute governance Frontier AI regulation International law National security law Constitutional law Antitrust law Copyright law Corporate law U.S. law U.S. policy

Cullen is the Director of Research at LawAI, where he also leads the Legal Frontiers team. Prior to LawAI, Cullen worked at OpenAI in various legal and policy research roles. Cullen is also a Research Affiliate at GovAI. Cullen graduated with a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2019.

cullen.okeefe@law-ai.org
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Research Article
Jan 26
January 2026

Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI

Noam Kolt, Nicholas Caputo, Jack Boeglin, Cullen O'Keefe, Rishi Bommasani, Stephen Casper, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar et al.
Research Article
Jan 26
January 2026

Automated Compliance and the Regulation of AI

Cullen O'Keefe, Kevin Frazier
Blog Post
Aug 25
August 2025

Why Give AI Agents Actual Legal Duties?

Cullen O'Keefe
Blog Post
Jul 25
July 2025

Future Frontiers for Research in Law and AI

Cullen O'Keefe, Matthijs Maas, Janna Tay
Research Article
May 25
May 2025

Law-Following AI: Designing AI Agents to Obey Human Laws

Cullen O'Keefe, Ketan Ramakrishnan, Janna Tay, Christoph Winter