AI for the legal profession

The Penn Carey Law AI Project researches how AI is changing legal practice, legal education, and the law itself; builds the tools that put those findings to work; and teaches lawyers, law students, judges, and the profession how to use AI well.

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Research

Empirical and applied research on how AI affects legal education and practice.

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Build

Tools that put research into practice — software, platforms, and pipelines.

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Teach

Disseminating what we learn and build — to students, faculty, judges, and the profession.

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Selected work

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Exam Grader

Calibration-based AI grading for law-school essay exams — deployed against Polk's Spring 2026 IP class. buildresearch Active

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Course Materials

An extraction primitive: turn the messy artifacts of a real course — PDFs, slide decks, casebook excerpts, syllabi — into clean structured text that downstream tools can use. buildteach Active

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Casebook Builder

Curate and edit cases into custom course casebooks at a fraction of the commercial cost — faculty pilots in Torts and Patents (Fall 2026) and Legislation (Spring 2027). buildteach Active

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Exam Taker

The AI Final Exam Project — can current AI pass real Penn Carey Law finals when its work is graded blind, on the curve, by the faculty who wrote the exams? Wave 1 results are in. researchbuild Active

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Course-Website Tooling

Generalize the Legal Education at Model Velocity microsite into reusable templates the Project and others can deploy quickly. buildteach Planning

Events

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March 21–22 and 28–29, 2026 AI Law Lab Bootcamp A 2-credit, intensive 2-weekend capstone course built around hands-on AI legal-tool simulations. Two parallel tracks — Corporate (M&A due diligence) and Litigation (analytics & predictive strategy). September 2025; September 2023 AI 1L Orientation Programming for incoming 1Ls covering AI capabilities and limits, professional-responsibility considerations, and how AI fits into the work of becoming a lawyer. Fall 2024 Faculty Retreat AI Demos Live AI demonstrations for Penn Carey Law faculty — image generation, class scripting, hypothetical creation, Virtual TA setup, AI essay grading.