Houston Law News, Professor Chandler Launches "AI for Legal Education" Blog to Guide the Next Generation of Lawyers:

For a law student in 2025, is refusing to use Artificial Intelligence the same as a 1990s student refusing to use a computer? University of Houston Law Center Foundation Professor Seth J. Chandler argues it is, and he has launched a new blog, AI for Legal Education, as an essential guide for students, faculty, and alumni navigating this new reality.

Seth Chandler, Welcome to AI for Legal Education:

Welcome! I’m Seth J. Chandler, a law professor at the University of Houston Law Center with an enduring interest in mathematics, computer science, and machine learning. This blog, AI for Legal Education, sits at the intersection of those worlds. I've spent a lifetime helping students reason rigorously about legal doctrine, and now I’m increasingly obsessed with how AI can serve as a partner in that enterprise. Things will be up and running here shortly, but you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published!

What will you find here? A lot, I hope. Some posts will be tutorials: how to use large language models such as ChatGPT or Gemini to design flashcards, write hypotheticals, analyze cases and statutes, or even practice skills such as drafting, depositions and oral argument. Others will be provocations: should law schools require AI literacy? What, really, is the role of a professor going to be in the next few years? What degree of creativity can you expect from large language models? You’ll also see reflections on cases – mostly on constitutional law – and teaching strategies, explorations of emerging legal scholarship on AI, and occasional deep dives into the mechanics of models—from prompt engineering and vector databases to transfer learning and fine-tuning.

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