Paul L. Caron
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Legal Ed Tech
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Law School with the Most Supreme Court Alumni
Microsoft Copilot generated the following — not surprising — response: “Law School with the Most Supreme Court Alumni Harvard Law School has produced the most U.S. Supreme Court justices, with 19 alumni who have served on the Court judicialshop.com. Historical record According to data compiled from the Federal Judicial Center, Harvard Law School leads all U.S. law…
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Legal Education Podcasts
Most of my podcast listening and podcast producing has little to do with law or legal education (I am a long-standing GFOP, and IYKYK). Once in a while, however, I come across a legal education episode that is simply too good not to share. So: at the podcast “How to Navigate Law School,” produced by…
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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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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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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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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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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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Legal Education in Alaska
Coverage of law school partnerships with the University of Alaska so that Alaskan residents don’t need to leave the state to attend law school. The University of Alaska Southeast is partnering with Minnesota-based Mitchell Hamline School of Law to allow Alaska students to get a law degree without needing to leave the state. Normally, students…
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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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Is AI’s Law School Exam Performance Plateauing?
Andrew Blair-Stanek (Maryland) & Donald B. Tobin (Maryland) et al., Is AI’s Law School Exam Performance Plateauing?: Last spring, we had OpenAI’s reasoning model o3 take our final exams, with the reasoning effort parameter set to “high,” and graded its answers on the same curve as our students. o3 got grades ranging from A+ to…
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Blackman: How to Assess AI-Aided Law Students? Oral Exams?
Josh Blackman (South Texas), How To Assess AI-Aided Students? My tentative plan for ConLaw in the spring is to switch to an oral, in-person midterm. Taking a step back, I have long struggled with how to use midterms effectively. The most useful aspect of a midterm is to provide an early intervention–feedback for students who…
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McGinnis: AI and the Unbundling of Legal Education
John O. McGinnis (Northwestern), The Unbundling of Legal Education: Artificial intelligence is improving both quickly and in ways that increasingly matter for legal practice and legal education. One of the most important developments has been the rise of reasoning models to supplement large language models (LLMs). Earlier, LLMs were best understood as systems for fast,…
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Legal Education Existentialism, No. 3
Today’s “Legal Education Existentialism” series started with some reflections on Dean Bobby Chesney’s recent memo about AI at Texas Law and continued by expanding its reach to question the basic purposes and structures of contemporary legal education as a whole. Is legal education entering an existential moment? In this last post today I pull back…
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Legal Education Existentialism, No. 2
In Legal Education Existentialism, No. 1, earlier today, I asked out loud: “What if artificial intelligence is an existential challenge to current systems of training lawyers, rather than a moment in technological evolution that calls for institutional resilience and adaptation?” I’ll be honest up front. I have my suspicions and my biases, but I do…
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Legal Education Existentialism, No. 1
News from Austin: Dean Bobby Chesney at the University of Texas (UT) School of Law circulated a long-ish memo the other day that lays out a mostly clear-eyed, common-sense view of how artificial intelligence technologies and systems ought to be folded into the legal education program at that law school. Here at TaxProf, Kevin Johnson…
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Legal Innovators Award Noms Open
From this morning’s mailbag: The National Law Review and Wickard have launched the Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia 2026 awards/recognition. This initiative will recognize law school deans, professors, administrators, librarians, clinicians, researchers, and other academic leaders who are advancing legal education through innovation, technology, leadership, scholarship, program development, and other transformative contributions. Nominations are open to the public,…
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A Law School Dean, a Secret Recording, and Questions That Linger
Following up on last Sunday’s post, UC-Berkeley Law School Cracks Down on AI: Chronicle of Higher Education, A Dean, a Secret Recording, and Questions That Linger: Erwin Chemerinsky on AI, DEI, and that video that won’t go away. Last month, the law school at the University of California at Berkeley released a terse new AI…
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NY Times: UC-Berkeley Law School Cracks Down on AI
Following up on Mike Madison’s post, UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Policy: New York Times DealBook: A Law School Cracks Down on A.I., by Andrew Ross Sorkin: A.I. may be changing legal jobs. But Chris Hoofnagle, a professor at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law, doesn’t want the technology to transform legal education. “It’s just like…