From the Financial Times, although describing the practices of only two law schools.

These days, we are all struggling to balance the human and the machine in the workplace. Take the training of lawyers. Generative AI can already do much of the grunt work normally given to young, inexperienced attorneys, but if we let it, how will they ever become sage old pros?  America’s top law schools are figuring this out on the fly: for the new academic year, the University of Chicago Law School will ban phones, tablets and laptops from core first-year classrooms, so students cannot use technology shortcuts that “stunt intellectual growth”.  “The whole point is to do things the hard way — because that’s how you learn,” says William Hubbard, chair of the law school’s AI committee. For generations of Chicago law students, that has meant debating cases and legal principles in real time, in front of professors and peers, using what is known as the “Socratic method”. AI is getting in the way of that, he tells me. 

Patti Waldmeir, Law Schools Tell Students to Put AI Away, Financial Times, September 7, 2026.