Blue J is offering complimentary access to its AI tax research platform to every full-time tax professor in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Almost 200 tax professors have now activated their academic access. 

Visit https://www.bluej.com/academic-access to receive complimentary access.

Why should you take advantage? From Ben Alarie (Toronto):

[Blue J] delivers immediate leverage for class preparation, academic research, exam drafting, and answering complex student questions. It also gives students hands-on experience with the professional-grade tax research software they will rely on in practice.

Two extensions worth flagging:

• If you’re a tax student and your professor hasn’t seen this yet, send them Blue J’s CEO post on LinkedIn. Your professor can request access and provision it to your class by emailing Ben directly. You can get Blue J through them.
• If you’re an adjunct teaching tax, you’re welcome too. You can access a 7-day free trial of Blue at www.bluej.com/free-trial (no credit card required, just an email address). And if you decide after seeing what Blue J can do that you will bring your students onto Blue J as well, then with that commitment from you, Blue J can activate longer-term Blue J academic access for you.

I’ve also previewed Blue J this week, and it’s impressive. For example, the model picked up the § 199A regulations on losses from qualified businesses, which generalist LLMs tend to miss. Similarly, the model was helpful with questions on the OECD’s side-by-side package—a topic where there’s more commentary than substantive law. Finally, access to the Tax Notes database makes a big difference, compared to other AI platforms.

Related TaxProf Blog coverage:

• Becher & Alarie: Superjustice: Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Apr. 11, 2026)
• Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review and Roundup: Kim Reviews Alarie’s The Rise Of The Robotic Tax Analyst (Mar. 10, 2023)
• Weekly SSRN Tax Article Review and Roundup: Speck Reviews Blue J’s Use Of Machine Learning To Predict Tax Litigation Results (Apr. 29, 2022)