Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Tech
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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…
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Notes on Lawyers, AI, and Money
When I advise law students about career directions, one of my long-standing go-to nuggets of information is this. It’s a piece of wisdom that a mentor shared with me 40 years ago, early in my 1L summer job: Follow the money. For any sector of the legal industry and for any legal services organization, figure…
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New “Legal Tech Studio” at Arizona State
Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law recently announced the launch of an “AI and Legal Tech Studio,” to be led by recruiting Sean Harrington from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. ASU’s press release claims that this initiative is “a key milestone in ASU Law’s bold initiative to reimagine legal education…
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Is a Law Student’s Unauthorized Use of AI an Honor Code Violation?
Law schools are struggling to police student use of AI
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Harvey’s Principles for AI Adoption and Rollout in Law Schools
An article describing Harvey’s Law School Program, which is designed “to help students advance their AI proficiency” and serve as “a framework for how law schools can integrate AI into legal education responsibly.” John Haddock, Harvey’s Principles for AI Adoption and Rollout in Law Schools, October 31, 2025 (“The program also aims to help faculty…
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As Gen Z Faces White Collar Hiring Freeze, Law and Business School Applications Are Soaring
Good news for law schools and MBA programs: applications are on the rise. Amid a challenging job market, students are turning to what they see as a safer bet—skilling up in hopes of becoming more attractive to prospective employers.
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UNC Law School Hosts Mock Trial With ChatGPT, Grok, And Claude As Jury
University of North Carolina hosted a mock trial using ChatGPT, Grok And Claude as the jury. The experiment proved that trial-by-bot is not a good idea.
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Chicago Law School Launches New Course: AI Lab
AI Lab is Coming to UChicago Law: Imagine that you’re sitting in a law school classroom learning how to build a generative AI tool. Now imagine that this tool you create is released to millions of people to help them understand and navigate the law. Starting this fall, this scenario will become reality for students…
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Michigan Supreme Court Contracts With Learned Hand For Purpose-Built Judicial AI: ‘A Law Clerk For Law Clerks’
National Law Review, The Michigan Supreme Court Contracts with Learned Hand for Purpose-Built Judicial AI: The Michigan Supreme Court has contracted with Learned Hand, the first generative AI platform purpose-built for courts, to support judges and judicial staff. The contracted services will provide Michigan Supreme Court (MSC) staff with access to Learned Hand’s customized legal…
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How Law Schools Are Reimagining Access To Justice Through Technology
Thomson Reuters, Scaling Justice: How Law Schools Are Reimagining Access to Justice Through Technology: Law schools are stepping into a critical role as laboratories for persistent access to justice challenges. As the legal system grapples with rising demand and constrained resources, many law schools are forging partnerships, launching clinics, and embracing technology to bridge the…
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AI And Langdell Cannot Co-Exist In The Law School Classroom
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette Op-Ed: Old School, Baby, by Robert Steinbuch (Arkansas-Little Rock): My colleague Gwen Faulkenberry wrote a fine column last week about how to handle artificial intelligence in the classroom. She has "come to the [apt] conclusion that . . . AI and [she] cannot peacefully co-exist in the classroom anymore." Her sound…
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WashU Law Embeds AI In Legal Research Curriculum For All First-Year Students
WashU Law Embeds AI in Legal Research Curriculum for All First-Year Students: By the end of their first year, every first year JD student starting in 2025 at WashU Law will be proficient not only in traditional legal research but also in the fundamentals of generative AI, a dual fluency that sets them apart at summer placements…
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Paladin Partners With 30 Law Schools To Build Pro Bono Platform For Students
Legaltech News, Paladin Partners With 30 Law Schools to Build Pro Bono Platform for Students: On Thursday, U.S.-based pro bono management platform Paladin announced that in collaboration with 30 law schools, it is developing a pro bono platform for law schools and their students that will be launched in the fall. The platform aims to…
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Without OCI, Who Decides Whether A Law Student Passes The Vibe Check? Increasingly, It’s AI
Law.com, Without OCI, Who Decides Whether a Law Student Passes the Vibe Check? Increasingly, It’s AI: Prior to the 2020 recruiting season, law students vying for Big Law jobs went into the fall of their 2L year preparing for the types of screening questions they expected hiring partners to ask during on-campus interviews. What are…
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A Student’s Perspective On The AI Revolution In Law School
ABA Journal Op-Ed: Navigating the AI Revolution in Law School: Lessons From the Front Lines, by Austin Gergen (J.D. 2025, Tennessee): As a third-year law student, I’ve had a front-row seat to the artificial intelligence revolution in the legal field. This experience has helped me integrate AI into my research, writing and studying. With tools…
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How Some Law Schools Are Training Students In Generative AI
ABA Journal, Class Is in Session: How Some Law Schools Are Training Students in Generative AI: After initially taking a more skeptical approach following the introduction of ChatGPT in 2022, law schools are warming up to using artificial intelligence in curriculum and clinics. As more AI software is made available to law schools and students, the moment…