Penn Carey Law AI Project  /  Projects

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Assessment Tools

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AI on both sides of the law-school exam — taking, grading, and helping faculty write better questions.

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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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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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Essay Creator

Generate assessment-grade essay exams — issue spotters and fact-pattern questions — with rubrics built for AI-assisted grading. buildteach Active
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MCQ Creator

Generate law-school multiple-choice questions with built-in distractor validation and psychometric quality controls. buildteach Active

Teaching Tools

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The connective tissue of a course — extraction, casebooks, virtual TAs, simulations, and the templates that hold them together.

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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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Course-Website Tooling

Generalize the Legal Education at Model Velocity microsite into reusable templates the Project and others can deploy quickly. buildteach Planning
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Heron — A Course-Bounded Virtual TA

A virtual teaching-assistant chatbot bound to one course's materials: it answers students in Slack from the assigned readings, with citations. Plus the argument that faculty should consider building these to govern the AI students already use. Spring 2026 results and a draft paper. buildteach Active
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Class Simulations

AI-driven simulations built around the actual class problems law students work through each week — starting with patent law. buildresearch Planning

Judiciary

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The Lab's research partnership with federal courts and the Delaware Court of Chancery.

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Judiciary — Teaching the Bench

Working with the federal judiciary on the practical use of AI tools — through training, research, chambers-facing tools, and structured feedback. teach Active

Training

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Training materials for legal-education audiences — and the cross-Penn version of the same package.

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Training Materials

Produce a complete AI training package for legal-education audiences — and pitch a cross-Penn version with collaborators. teachbuild Active

Newsletter

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The pipeline behind the Lab's monthly AI Updates newsletter.

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Newsletter Automation

Build the pipeline that produces the Project's monthly AI newsletter — automated collection, editorial workflow, Substack distribution. buildteach Active

Shipped Artifacts

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Lab work already in the world — public-facing artifacts you can read, listen to, and use.

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Legal Education at Model Velocity

A four-module microsite on legal education in the era of AI, with a cloned-voice podcast, NotebookLM audio overview, and PDF summaries. Shipped April 2026. teach Shipped