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Our Mission
Our mission is to conduct strategic legal research that mitigates existential risk and promotes the flourishing of future generations, and to build a legal community that shares these concerns.
Our Goals
Strategic Research
Our primary goal is to conduct strategic research that can be used by key actors—for example, policymakers, judges, and litigators—working on the world’s most pressing problems. Our research currently focuses on mitigating existential risk and promoting the flourishing of future generations.
Field Building
We aim to raise awareness about our concern for the long-term future and build a global legal community that shares this concern. We want to bring together researchers and policymakers at every level of seniority and support the most effective ways to use the law to protect future generations and mitigate existential risk.
Our Team
Prof Christoph Winter
Director
Dr Alfredo Parra
Chief of Staff
Laurens Prins
Head of Legal Strategies
Mackenzie Arnold
Head of Strategy & Community Building
Dr Matthijs Maas
Senior Research Fellow - Law & AI
Dr José Jaime Villalobos
International Law & Policy Fellow
Suzanne Van Arsdale
Research Development Specialist
Prof John Bliss
Senior Research Fellow in Residence
Eric Martínez
Research Fellow
Rio Popper
Research Assistant
Affiliates
Our Story
Fall 2018
Idea was born at the EA Group at Harvard Law School
August 2019
First draft of research agenda
February 2020
Legal Priorities Seminar at Harvard Law School
May 2020
Registration as 501(c)(3) nonprofit
July 2020
Start of first Summer Research Fellowship
January 2021
Publication of research agenda
February 2021
Start of the Legal Priorities Lab series
May 2021
Start of second Summer Research Fellowship
