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How AI tools are transforming legal education, managing academic integrity, and preparing students for legal technology.
Use a combination of AI detection tools, oral assessments, in-class writing, and assessment design that makes AI use less effective.
AI is being used for personalised tutoring, automated feedback, practice question generation, legal research assistance, and preparing students for AI-augmented legal practice.
AI tools can be valuable study aids when used responsibly — for brainstorming, checking understanding, and generating practice questions — but should never replace independent legal analysis.
Involve staff and students in developing a clear, graduated policy that distinguishes between prohibited, permitted, and encouraged uses of AI, with regular review cycles.
Teaching prompt engineering to law students means showing them how to craft precise, structured instructions for AI tools that produce legally accurate outputs. Focus on specificity, jurisdiction, role-setting, and iterative refinement.
AI legal research tools include Harvey, CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters), Lexis+ AI, and general-purpose models like ChatGPT. Students should use them to supplement — not replace — traditional research, always verifying outputs against primary sources.
AI will automate routine legal tasks (document review, basic research, contract drafting) while increasing demand for skills AI cannot replicate: judgment, client relationships, advocacy, and ethical reasoning. Students should develop both technical literacy and distinctly human skills.
Law schools need clear, nuanced AI policies that distinguish between prohibited use (submitting AI-generated work as your own), permitted use (using AI as a research starting point), and encouraged use (learning to work with AI as a professional skill). Detection tools alone are insufficient.
AI contract review tools can identify key clauses, flag risks, compare terms against playbooks, and extract data from large document sets in minutes rather than hours. However, human oversight remains essential for judgment calls and complex negotiations.