Paul L. Caron
Dean
Pepperdine Caruso
School of Law
Legal Ed Tech
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Does Artificial Intelligence Have A Role In Legal Scholarship?
ABA Journal, Does Artificial Intelligence Have a Role in Legal Scholarship?: Now that artificial intelligence is actively used by many in academia—in the classroom, for syllabus development and in research—what is its proper role in legal scholarships while maintaining academic integrity? It’s a question that’s largely left unanswered, says Nachman N. Gutowski, an assistant professor…
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Choi, Monahan & Schwarcz: Lawyering In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence
Jonathan Choi (USC; Google Scholar), Amy B. Monahan (Minnesota; Google Scholar) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 109 Minn. L. Rev. 147 (2024): We conducted the first randomized controlled trial to study the effect of AI assistance on human legal analysis. We randomly assigned law school students to…
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Mazur & Thimmesch: Beyond ChatGPT: Transforming Government With Augmented LLMs
Orly Mazur (SMU; Google Scholar) & Adam B. Thimmesch (Nebraska; Google Scholar), Beyond ChatGPT: Transforming Government with Augmented LLMs, 92 Tenn. L. Rev. ___ (2025): The release of ChatGPT demonstrated the remarkable capabilities and the existing limitations of large language models (LLMs) and the natural language chatbots that they power. One area that is ripe…
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Law Profs’ Generative AI Sandbox
Three LSU law professors (Will Monroe, Tracy Norton, and Susan Tanner) have launched Law Profs' Generative AI Sandbox: Empowering & Inspiring Law Professors in the Age of Generative AIThis sandbox is your comprehensive resource for exploring how you might integrate artificial intelligence into law school instruction. Whether you've never tried out generative AI or you're already…
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Case Western Is First U.S. Law School To Require Legal AI Certification For All 1Ls
Case Western Reserve School of Law Becomes First Law School in the U.S. to Require Legal AI Education Certification For All First-Year Law Students: Case Western Reserve University School of Law will become the first in the nation to require all first-year law students to earn a certification in legal AI. Launching in February of…
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What Do We Really Know About The 19 Online Law Schools?
ABA Journal, Mythbusters: What Do We Really Know About Online Law Schools?: The journeys of individual students enrolling in online law school are as varied as the programs themselves, the ABA Journal finds. Currently, only law schools with brick-and-mortar campuses can gain ABA accreditation for their online JD programs. To date, 19 have received that…
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Generative AI And The Purpose Of Legal Scholarship
Following up on my previous post, Andrew Perlman (Dean, Suffolk), Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship: Michael L. Smith (St. Mary’s), Generative AI and the Purpose of Legal Scholarship: What does generative AI mean for the future of legal scholarship? The topic has been the talk of the town around academic water coolers. Some legal scholars…
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Perlman: Generative AI And The Future Of Legal Scholarship
Andrew M. Perlman (Dean, Suffolk; Google Scholar), Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship: Since ChatGPT's release in November 2022, legal scholars have grappled with generative AI's implications for the law, lawyers, and legal education. Articles have examined the technology's potential to transform the delivery of legal services, explored the attendant legal ethics concerns, identified…
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Weekly Legal Education Roundup
American Bar Association, Updates Data on Law School Admissions, Tuition and Other Matters The Atlantic, How to Marry Into Academia Paul Caron (Dean, Pepperdine), Pepperdine, Fire, And God Katya Cronin (George Washington), Value-Centered Lawyering: Reshaping the Law School Curriculum to Promote Well-Being, Quality Client Representation, and a Thriving Legal Field Davida Finger (Loyola-New Orleans), Susan Felstiner…
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How Legal Tech Changed Law School Education In 2024
Legaltech News, How Legal Tech Changed Law School Education in 2024: As the legal industry modernizes and embraces technology, law school students are increasingly expected to stay ahead of the curve with legal technology skills already in their arsenal. In 2024, more higher education institutions brought legal technology into their lecture halls.
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Lawsky: The Intersection Of Tax Law And Computational Law
John Nay (Stanford; Google Scholar) & Sarah Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar) et. al, Large Language Models as Tax Attorneys: A Case Study in Legal Capabilities Emergence, 382 Phil. Transactions of the Royal Society A (2024): Better understanding of Large Language Models’(LLMs) legal analysis abilities can contribute to improving the efficiency of legal services, governing artificial intelligence…
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QuizBot: An Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment In Legal Education
Sean A.Harrington (Oklahoma; Google Scholar), Introducing QuizBot an Innovative AI-Assisted Assessment in Legal Education: This Article explores an innovative approach to assessment in legal education: an AI-assisted quiz system implemented in an AI & the Practice of Law course. The system employs a Socratic method-inspired chatbot to engage students in substantive conversations about course materials,…
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Speck: Zoom As An In-Person Learning Platform
Sloan Speck (Colorado; Google Scholar), Zoom as an In-Person Learning Platform, 99 N.D. L. Rev. 627 (2024): During the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented shift to remote learning spurred many legal educators to reassess their pedagogical norms and practices. These reassessments were enabled, in part, by the widespread adoption and acceptance of videoconferencing software, most notably Zoom,…
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Grimmelmann Reviews Lawsky’s Coding the Code: Catala And Computationally Accessible Tax Law
James Grimmelmann (Cornell; Google Scholar), When Law Is Code (JOTWELL) (reviewing Sarah B. Lawsky (Northwestern; Google Scholar), Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law, 75 S.M.U. L. Rev. 535 (2022)): Sarah B. Lawsky’s Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law offers an exceptionally thoughtful perspective on the automation of legal rules. It provides not just…
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‘The New Reality’: Summer Associate Training Zeros In On Generative AI
Law.com, 'The New Reality': Summer Associate Training Zeros In on Generative AI: More Am Law 100 law firms are training their summer associates in generative AI, seeing the potential in the technology for both legal education and business. Among the latest is Seyfarth Shaw, which launched this year a 10-week program for summers with sessions…
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ChatGPT Is Bullshit
Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow; Google Scholar), James Humphries (University of Glasgow) & Joe Slater (University of Glasgow; Google Scholar), ChatGPT Is Bullshit:, 26 Ethics & Information Technology Art. 38 (2024): Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce humanlike text and dialogue. Applications of these systems…
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How Legal Gen AI Is Better Preparing Law Students For Practice
Legal Tech News, How Legal Gen AI Is Better Preparing Law Students for the Real World: Law firm summer associate programs are crucial for law school students looking for a promise of a permanent job offer. And with fewer offers on the table, a shot at a full-time position hinges on their ability to thrive under…
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Updated Stanford Report Finds High Hallucination Rates On Westlaw AI
Legal Tech News, Updated Stanford Report Finds High Hallucination Rates on Westlaw AI: After pushback following Stanford’s research study “Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI Legal Research Tools,” for what many saw as comparing apples to oranges—between Thomson Reuters’ (TR) Ask Practical Law and LexisNexis’ Lexis+ AI+ —the researchers released an updated study on May 30. This…
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OpenAI Releases New ChatGPT Edu For Universities
Inside Higher Ed, New ChatGPT Version Aiming at Higher Ed: OpenAI unveiled a new version of ChatGPT focused on universities on Thursday, building on work with a handful of higher education institutions that partnered with the tech giant. The ChatGPT Edu product, expected to start rolling out this summer, is a platform for institutions intended to…
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GPT-4 Didn’t Ace The Bar Exam After All, MIT Research Suggests
Live Science, GPT-4 Didn't Ace the Bar Exam After All, MIT Research Suggests — It Didn't Even Break the 70th Percentile: Last year, claims that OpenAI's GPT-4 model beat 90% of trainee lawyers on the bar exam generated a flurry of media hype. But these claims were likely overstated, a new study suggests. GPT-4 didn't…
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What Law Students Should Know About Generative AI Before Their Summer Jobs
Legal Tech News: What Law Students Should Know About Generative AI Before Their Summer Jobs, by Nick Hafen (BYU): For law school students preparing to start their summer jobs, internships, externships and clerkships, now is the time to get up to speed on the latest in legal technology: generative AI (GenAI). Your employer may be…
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Yale Law School Launches Free Open Access Legal Scholarship Repository
Yale Law School Today, Open Access Law Archive Platform Launches: The Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School, in collaboration with the Center for Open Science (COS), has announced the launch of Law Archive, the only free open access platform for legal scholarship that integrates collaboration tools, data storage, and sharing of legal scholarship. The open legal scholarship…
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Call For Legal Ed Tech Papers: 2025 AALS Annual Meeting
Call For Papers: 2025 AALS Annual Meeting: The AALS Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education will be hosting up to four sessions at the Annual Meeting in San Francisco, January 7 – 11. There will be two programs introducing a variety of issues involving the intersection of technology and law, one program on the…
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Measuring The Political Bias Of ChatGPT
Fabio Motoki, Valdemar Pinho Neto & Victor Rodrigues, More Human Than Human: Measuring ChatGPT Political Bias: We investigate the political bias of a large language model (LLM), ChatGPT, which has become popular for retrieving factual information and generating content. Although ChatGPT assures that it is impartial, the literature suggests that LLMs exhibit bias involving race,…
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Generative AI Already Is Making An Impact On Legal Research And Writing
ABA Journal, Generative AI Already Is Making an Impact on Legal Research and Writing: Lawyers who expect generative artificial intelligence to significantly impact the practice of law see some of the greatest potential in legal research and writing. In August, a LexisNexis Legal & Professional study of nearly 8,000 lawyers, law students and consumers in…