Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Artificial Intelligence
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AI and Faith
Following up on my previous posts on AI and Faith (links below): New York Review of Books, Against Slop: An Interview with Meghan O’Gieblyn: “The whole field of AI alignment—ensuring that machine intelligence can peacefully coexist with humanity—grew out of the pervasive anxiety that we might create monsters.” This is, Meghan O’Gieblyn argues in our June…
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How Often Are Articles in T14 Law Reviews Written In Part By AI?
Julian Nyarko (Stanford), How Often Are Articles in Top Law Reviews Written In Part By AI?: Over the last few weeks, there has been some interesting discussion around the use of AI in the writing of law review articles, with views among legal scholars varying quite widely. To me, the question of whether AI use…
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Tax Advice and AI
Jay A. Soled (Rutgers) & Linda Galler (Hofstra), Tax Advice and AI, 100 Tul. L. Rev. 909 (2026): In the past, taxpayers’ choices in seeking guidance on tax return positions were limited to obtaining costly advice from trained tax professionals or conducting their own research in hopes of finding accurate answers. Either path might or…
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Law Schools Tell Students to Put AI Away
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,…
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McGinnis: AI and the Public Purpose of Legal Scholarship
John O. McGinnis (Northwestern Law), “The Scholar’s Telescope: AI and the Public Purpose of Legal Scholarship” The abstract: The controversy over artificial intelligence in legal scholarship exposes a deeper disagreement about what legal scholarship is for. This Essay argues that scholarship’s governing public purpose is to improve warranted public understanding of law and the reasons…
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Blackman: AI Freezes The Law Professor’s Scholarly Voice
Josh Blackman (South Texas), AI Freezes The Scholarly Voice: I recently attended a workshop about how law professor are using AI. One professor said that he has trained AI on his writing style by reviewing all of his past publications. Thus, any text generated by the AI will be in the same sort of style…
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NY Times: The AI Token Tax
New York Times DealBook, The A.I. Token Tax: When Bill Gates warned of the dangers posed by A.I. this week, he also weighed in on a somewhat obscure debate among politicians and economists about the best way to tax the technology. Gates suggested taxing A.I. tokens. This month, Representative Greg Casar of Texas, who chairs the Congressional Progressive…
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“The 2026 Top Legal Innovators in Academia”
The “National Law Review” has published a list of “The 2026 Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia,” here. Who is a “legal innovator”? The NLR – and its sponsor, Wickard (“a specialized education and advisory firm operating at the intersection of law, artificial intelligence, ethics, and public policy”) writes: they are “educators, administrators, researchers, and…
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New Law Review Submission Analytics Tool from Georgetown Law
TaxProf Blog gets announcements. Here is an interesting one: Cece Worley, a 3L at Georgetown Law and Executive Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, wrote to us to announce the launch of “Expecited.” The announcement says that Expecited is “a platform designed to make the law review submissions process more transparent and useful for legal…
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Do Law School AI Bans Teach the Wrong Lesson?
A piece from Donald Tobin and Samuel Irwin responding to UC Berkeley Law’s recently announced AI policy. Berkeley Law recently announced a new artificial intelligence (AI) policy that, absent a professor’s decision to opt out, bans almost all AI use in students’ coursework and exams. Other law schools may soon follow suit. These bans teach the wrong…
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ClioCon and Legal Education
ClioCon, a legaltech confab that is (I am told) a or even “the” must-attend annual industry conference, has added a “legal education” segment to its schedule this year. It’s an “Academic Summit,” as if the gathering is a pinnacle of some sort or a gathering of the educational elite. The “Academic Summit” takes place in…
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Frazier on AI for non-tech students
Kevin Frazier (University of Texas) posted this to LinkedIn, and with his permission I am copying it over here. I invited Kevin to draft a short intro. Here is his text. The LI post follows. There’s a shortage of scholars–junior and senior–studying AI governance. Many of the leading minds in the academy–both in law and…
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Levy: “A Lawyer’s Guide to the Era of AI”
Colin Levy (Malbek (in-house) and Albany Law) has announced the forthcoming publication of “Code Switched: A Lawyer’s Guide to the Era of AI,” from Amplify Publishing. The (somewhat breathless) description of the book is: What if the tasks that used to define your workweek–reviewing contracts, researching case law, drafting routine agreements–could be done in minutes…
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Law Schools Are Asking the Wrong Question About AI
In an article last week from Inside Higher Ed, James Finkelstein comments on how some law schools are responding to AI. “The more interesting is not about academic integrity. It’s about what it means to assess professional competence in a fast-changing field.” From the article: The discussion has been framed largely as a choice between…
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Luedeman on AI and Accommodations
Richard Luedeman (University of Baltimore) reached out to me following my recent post on law faculty innovating with AI policies and shared this forthcoming article: “The AI-Accommodation Dilemma in Legal Education” (forthcoming 33 Michigan Technology Law Review (2027)). The abstract: Two major trends are forcing American law schools to rethink their approach to learning assessments, and they…
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Tax Lawyers Must Adapt to AI Now. It’s Already Changed the Game.
Bloomberg Law, Tax Lawyers Must Adapt to AI Now. It’s Already Changed the Game.: Artificial intelligence is no longer a future issue for tax lawyers. It is already changing how research is done, how large volumes of documents are reviewed, how contracts and motions are prepared, how audit responses are built, and how clients measure…
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Boyko on Lawyer Training
Anastasia Boyko (formerly Yale Law, formerly Utah Law), at Law.com (July 23): “The Future of Lawyering: Lawyer Training“: Once I came full circle to law school administration, I saw the root cause of lawyer training and development dysfunction. We have not created the right container for development for years. Limited psychological safety. Faculty more focused…
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Law Faculty Innovating With AI Policies
Increasingly, and as the Summer draws to a close and the Fall semester looms, I come across examples of individual law professors developing and advocating for their own custom classroom policies relative to Generative AI use by students. I’ll post links to particularly thoughtful examples, as I encounter them. Here are two: Matthew Sag, (Emory…
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UC Law SF to Require AI-enabled Lab for All Students
UC Law San Francisco (the law school once known as Hastings College of the Law) announced that the school is making its AI-enabled lawyering lab “AI-enabled lawyering lab a requirement for all JD students, starting with the incoming class of 2029, who will complete the course in their second year.” From the announcement: Launched as…
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Choi & Connell: AI Deceleration (or Acceleration) by Taxation
Jonathan H. Choi (Washington University) & Paul Connell (Wisconsin), AI Deceleration (or Acceleration) by Taxation: Even the chief executives of America’s leading AI companies cannot agree on whether their products will substitute for or complement human labor. Yet most policy proposals, from data center bans to bonus depreciation for AI hardware, commit policymakers ex ante to just…
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Pittsburgh Tax Review Symposium: AI in Tax Practice and Law School Education
The Pittsburgh Tax Review has published Symposium, AI in Tax Practice and Law School Education, 23 Pitt, Tax Rev. 283- 353 (2026) : Sarah B. Lawsky (Illinois), Direct File as Formalization, 23 Pitt. Tax Rev. 283 (2026) (reviewed by Jeff Gordon (Vanderbilt) here): Direct File was a program created by the United States government that…
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Getting to AI
Three major law schools have released guidance on AI use over the last few weeks: UC Berkeley, the University of Texas, and the University of Chicago. The links go to prior TaxProf Blog coverage, which links in turn to primary sources. I have brief summative comments directed to process questions and therefore aimed more at…
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Beyond AI Literacy: Why the Future of Legal Education Is Still Human-Based
A new piece in Insight into Academia, where Misty Evans speaks with Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Boston University School of Law) about the impact of AI on legal education and the profession: As law schools across the country rush to integrate AI into their curricula, many are grappling with the same question: What does it mean…
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The World Cup: Soccer, Law, and Judging
It’s a bad look, in my own self-interested opinion, for TaxProf Blog to have nothing to contribute to the global phenomenon that is the World Cup finals of 2026, especially when the United States men’s team is performing exceptionally well and is very much in the center of the action, and not simply as co-host…
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Schapiro, Tripepi, & Blackley: Reclaiming the Writing Process Using AI
Hannah M. Schapiro, Manuela Tripepi, Julia Blackley (Thomas Jefferson University), Reclaiming the Writing Process Using AI: A Scaffolded Writing Assignment That Promotes Critical Thinking, Reflection, and Assignment That Promotes Critical Thinking, Reflection, and Accountability (Thomas Jefferson University College of Life Sciences Faculty Papers, 4-30-2026). In this article, the authors offer an idea that would work…