Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Artificial Intelligence
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Mazur: Modernizing the IRS in the Age of AI
Orly Mazur (SMU), Modernizing the IRS in the Age of AI, 45 Va. Tax Rev. 182 (2025): Artificial intelligence (AI) offers powerful tools for modernizing tax administration, from automating audits and improving fraud detection to enhancing taxpayer services. But if deployed prematurely, AI risks entrenching the very flaws it aims to fix. The Internal Revenue…
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ChatGPT Generates a Novel Tax Strategy
Artificial intelligence can now generate tax minimization strategies when fed only the text of tax authorities — without any internal IRS data and without any laborious hand coding of tax code sections.
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From the Bookshelves: The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly (2025)
I love legal thrillers. If you do too and need a distraction, check out The Proving Ground by Michael Connelly (2025). Very enjoyable! Here is the publisher’s description: “From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, the Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder…
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Novel Critique of AI
Professors Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey of Boston University offer a profound critique of AI that you won’t read elsewhere. As they put it, “we hope to convince you of one simple and urgent point:the current design of artificial intelligence systems facilitates the degradation anddestruction of our critical civic institutions.” You can find their work…
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Legal Tech Developments
Law.com offers a nice issue exploring various ways that law schools and law firms are innovating with legal tech, including a revamped contracts course using AI from Mitchell Hamline professor Gregory Duhl. You can find it here: https://www.law.com/2025/12/30/how-law-schools-advanced-legal-tech-in-2025-/?kw=How+Law+Schools+Advanced+Legal+Tech+in+2025
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AI for Legal Education Blog
Want to stay up on developments on artificial intelligence and legal education. University of Houston Law Center Foundation Professor Seth J. Chandler has launched a new blog, AI for Legal Education, as a guide for students, faculty, and alumni navigating AI. Here is the UH press release description of the blog: ” The blog (legaled.ai) directly addresses the…
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Reuters: Joby aims to double US output as air-taxi push gains momentum
Reuters: Joby aims to double US output as air-taxi push gains momentum: Joby Aviation (JOBY.N) said on Wednesday it would double its U.S. manufacturing capacity, as the electric aircraft maker looks to cash in on demand for air-taxis. Regulators and industry players have been accelerating efforts to bring electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft into mainstream transportation…
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To AI or Not to AI
In his recent article, Solving Professors’ Dilemmas about Prohibiting or Promoting Student AI Use, John Lande, Isidor Loeb Professor of Law, Emeritus at the University of Missouri has tackled a topic on the minds of many of us teaching students for whom AI will play a large role in their careers. Should we slow them…