Raffi Teperdjian

Raffi Teperdjian is a corporate counsel at Protocol Labs, Inc., an open-source research and development lab that builds protocols, tools, and services to radically improve the Internet.

Prior to going in-house, Mr. Teperdjian worked in the Washington, DC office of Ropes & Gray, LLP advising clients on matters dealing with emerging technologies across several practice areas including intellectual property (IP) transactions, IP litigation, privacy and cybersecurity, and asset management. During his legal academic career and currently as an attorney, Mr. Teperdjian regularly researches, publishes, and presents on emerging technology topics across a variety of legal subjects. His scholarship includes “The Puzzle of Squaring Blockchain with the General Data Protection Regulation” published in Jurimetrics for which he was awarded the Loevinger Prize as the article in Volume 60 that made the best contribution to the field of law, science, and technology. He also co-authored “A Structural Solution to Mitigating Artificial Intelligence Bias in Administrative Agencies” published in George Washington Law Review Arguendo.

Prior to, and concurrently with, Mr. Teperdjian’s study of the law, he worked on a variety of systems development and big data analysis projects in both federal and commercial information technology consulting. In addition to his present in-house role, he teaches Artificial Intelligence Law and Policy.