Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Tech
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California Could be First State to Require Law Schools to Teach AI
Reuters, California Could be First State to Make Law Schools Teach AI: California-accredited law schools could soon be required to train students on artificial intelligence technology and how to use AI tools responsibly. The State Bar of California’s Committee of Bar Examiners on Friday discussed adding “the competent use, capabilities, and limitations of technology and
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New Landscape for Student Loans
Long before the federal government took over student loans, the nonprofit organization now known as AccessLex Institute®, has been active in helping students finance their legal education. One tool AccessLex provides free of charge is a Student Loan Calculator, which helps students evaluate borrowing options and potential repayment plans. Now that calculator has been updated
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Dorna Moini: The Legal Profession Has a 1-2 Year Window
Dorna Moini, Lecturer in Law at USC Gould School of Law, teaching the “Legal Innovations Lab” there, and CEO of Gavel, a legaltech company, on Substack: “The legal profession has a 1–2 year window. Most lawyers will miss it. AI won’t replace lawyers, but one lawyer with AI will.” If you want to know what’s
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The Trend Away From Lawyers’ Serving Organizational Clients
Jordan Furlong on Substack, “The coming revival of the PeopleLaw sector: Generative AI will inadvertently reduce the legal profession’s disproportionate focus on organizational clients — and could end up redirecting lawyers to meet the legal needs of everyday people.” This is a typically Furlong-esque thoughtful speculation about the legal profession, lawyers, and (implicitly, in this
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Abramowitz on Lawyer Value in an AI World
No scan of legal futurology is complete without keeping up with Zack Abramowitz, a lawyer, entrepreneur, investor, and advisor who posts essays and podcasts about legaltech at “Legally Disrupted” on Substack and at “Killer Whale Strategies.” His writing and speaking can come across as “over the top,” especially in the context of the legal profession’s
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Automating Legal Education
Continuing with my relying on Substack for many of the most interesting and up-to-date takes on the future of legal education, Dave Hoffman (Penn) writes: I have had approximately 5,000 conversations about the essay in the last week or so, with partners, associates, faculty colleagues and students. No one feels good about what it portends.
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Stanford Law Hires ED for AI Initiative
“Stanford Law School has appointed Irene Liu as the executive director of the Stanford Law School AI Initiative, co-chaired by Nathaniel Persily, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and Professor of Law Julian Nyarko. The AI Initiative advances interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement with industry leaders and policymakers. It brings together faculty,
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Bloomberg Law: ABA Highlights AI’s Challenges
From Bloomberg Law about how AI has become “an integral part of everyday legal work:” The legal field is no longer just watching artificial intelligence from the sidelines. Eighteen months ago, concerns about AI errors and confidentiality were common, but now AI is changing the profession’s core systems. The American Bar Association’s Task Force on
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Leiter: Will AI Soon Cause a Massive Contraction in Law Schools?
Brian Leiter (Chicago), AI Developer Warns the AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Closer Than We Realize: [A]n excerpt [from Matt Shumer (CEO, Otherside AI), Something Big Is Happening]: [O]n February 5th, two major AI labs released new models on the same day: GPT-5.3 Codex from OpenAI, and Opus 4.6 from Anthropic (the makers of Claude, one
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AI Resources for Law Professors
Having written several posts here at TaxProf Blog about Generative AI in the hands of law professors, I am reminded to note that the AALS announced a new AI-themed partnership with West Academic. As usual, I have a comment, after the jump. But first:
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Rodriguez on Priorities in Legal Education
Dan Rodriguez (Northwestern Law, where he is the former Dean; and a former president of AALS) has a new essay up at Substack, titled “Law Schools’ Attention Spans Remain Short.” An excerpt follows, and (below the fold) a brief comment from me. He begins: “NYTimes Elizabeth Olson, who has been writing about law schools for
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Critiquing AI-Generated Legal Scholarship
My posts on law professors’ using Generative AI to compose law review articles (first one here, second one here) continue to generate interesting responses. Which, of course, is part of my goal: I blog to learn. Today’s addition: Michael L. Smith (Oklahoma Law), “Generative AI and the Purpose of Legal Scholarship” (forthcoming, U. Mass. L.
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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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NY Times: Interest in Law School Is Surging. Federal Student Loan Changes and AI Make the Payoff Less Certain.
The number of applicants has risen more than 40 percent over the last two years, despite new limits on student loans and uncertainty over how artificial intelligence will affect legal work.
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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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AI-Generated Legal Scholarship
I ask, and sometimes I receive. In a recent post, I wondered aloud: Could ChatGPT or any of its rivals (in any of their variations, write a publishable work of legal scholarship? What further questions would the answer (yes? no?) raise? Perhaps that’s been done? The asking? The writing? The submitting? The publishing? I now
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On Grading Oral Exams with AI
Panos Ipeirotis (NYU Stern School of Business) has published this illuminating account of building a stack of AI agents to assess his students’ oral presentations. He has a detailed, step-by-step account of his motivations, what he did to build the system, and an after-action assessment of what worked well and what worked poorly. His takeaways
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Chandler: Let AI Curve Your Grades
Seth Chandler (University of Houston) posted “Let AI Curve Your Grades” at his “AI for Legal Education” site. He writes: Professors often face a narrow set of constraints: maintain a target mean GPA, keep distributions within strict percentage bands, and do so without assigning a lower grade to a higher-performing student. The reality is that
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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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ABA Task Force on AI and the Legal Profession Year 2 Report
The ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence released a new report on December 15 exploring AI’s impact on the legal profession. The report includes a section on AI and legal education that discloses the results of a 2024 survey of law schools regarding plans to integrate AI into their curricula. It highlights AI-related
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Changes to Legal Education in the Law Firm
“AI Boom Forces Law Firm Tech Leaders To Rethink Training Practices,” at Law.com (Dec. 4, 2025) by Ryan Harroff and Jon Campisi. It has long been a staple of career advising in law schools that legal employers will shoulder responsibility for transforming new law graduates into functioning practitioners. With AI deployments, how is that story
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AI Literacy at King’s College London
From “The Global Legal Post”, 2 December 2025: “King’s College London university launches ‘AI literacy’ training for law students and staff” Law students and staff at one of the UK’s top universities are to be trained in artificial intelligence technology. The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London claims that the 12-week online
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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
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AI Literacy at Vanderbilt Law
At Vanderbilt Law, the team at the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL) has a Substack titled “The AI of Law” where they document and reflect on the community’s efforts to learn about and teach about intersections among legal education, lawyering, and justice in the AI era. (The main VAILL site is here.) From a recent