A thoughtful piece by Dean Danielle Conway (Penn State Dickinson Law), Dean Richard Moberly (Univ. of Nebraska College of Law) and AALS Executive Director Kellye Testy in Bloomberg Law. A small excerpt:

AI adoption has serious risks, including lack of transparency, the importance of disclosure, and disparate economic impact. But the truth, and the landscape of AI, are messier—and more consequential. Legal education must evolve in real time to equip law students for an AI-driven future.

The good news: Law schools are adapting AI in the classroom, and law students can be confident that they are receiving an education that will prepare them to thrive in their profession.

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AI will keep improving, and the profession will keep renegotiating what work belongs to machines, what work belongs to humans, and what work requires both. That’s exactly why the value of a legal education endures. A J.D. isn’t a bet against technology; it’s training in analysis, advocacy, and responsibility in systems where the stakes are high and the answers are contested.

Law schools should be judged not by whether they can predict the future, but by whether they are preparing graduates to harness and shape it.

Danielle Conway, Richard Moberly, and Kellye Testy, AI Legal Education Pushes Skills, Clinics, and Healthy Skepticism, Bloomberg Law, May 19, 2026. For another recent story on AI and legal education, see David Nusbaum, Law Schools Implement AI to Focus on Ethics and Technology, LA Times, May 17, 2026.