Projects on Penn Carey Law AI Project

Exam Grader

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Exam Grader is the Project’s calibration-based grading tool for law-school essay exams. The model doesn’t grade in a vacuum — it grades against a calibration set the faculty member has already scored, learning the rubric from worked examples before scoring the rest of the stack.

Course Materials

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Course Materials is the extraction primitive that sits underneath the rest of the Teaching Tools cluster. The job is narrow and load-bearing: take the messy artifacts of a real course — PDFs, slide decks, casebook excerpts, syllabi, lecture transcripts — and turn them into clean, structured text that other tools can consume reliably.

Casebook Builder

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Casebook Builder is the Project’s tool for turning a faculty member’s case list into a custom course casebook. Give it the cases you want; it fetches the full opinions, edits them down to casebook form — main cases, squibs, contrast cases, comprehension and discussion questions, and explanatory notes — and assembles them into units and a finished book ready for student distribution. It came out of a faculty conversation about the $300–500 commercial casebook problem: AI plus the right tooling should let faculty assemble exactly the casebook their course needs at a fraction of the cost.

Exam Taker

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Exam Taker is the test-subject side of the Project’s exam work. The pipeline puts a current AI model in the seat of a law student: it answers real Penn Carey Law finals — the same exams enrolled students sit for — and the answers go into the live grading stack to be scored blind, on the curve, by the faculty who wrote them.

Course-Website Tooling

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Course-Website Tooling is the build layer underneath the Project’s Training Materials work. It generalizes the Legal Education at Model Velocity microsite — the four-module microsite, the cloned-voice podcast pipeline, the NotebookLM audio overview, the auto-generated PDF summaries — into reusable templates that future training packages and course microsites can deploy without rebuilding from scratch.

Essay Creator

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Essay Creator is the Project’s productized version of the law-essay-generator skill: a faculty-facing tool for drafting law-school essay exam questions — issue spotters and fact-pattern questions — that meet assessment-science quality standards out of the box.

MCQ Creator

Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

MCQ Creator is the Project’s productized version of the law-mcq-generator skill: a faculty-facing tool for drafting multiple-choice exam questions that pass the structural and psychometric quality checks the assessment literature actually expects.

Heron — A Course-Bounded Virtual TA

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Heron is a virtual teaching assistant for a single course — a chatbot students talk to in Slack. Ask it about a case, a doctrine, or the week’s reading, and it answers from that course’s own materials — the assigned readings, slides, and class transcripts — citing the exact page or timestamp so a student can check the source, and saying so plainly when the materials don’t cover the question. It is named for Heron of Alexandria, the first-century engineer of steam toys and automatic doors: a fitting namesake for a course about invention.

Class Simulations

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Class Simulations builds AI-driven exercises around the class problems students already work through each week. Instead of generic role-plays, the simulations attach to the specific hypotheticals a course assigns — so the AI counterparty pushes back the way the doctrine actually pushes back, and students get to see their reasoning tested against something that has to follow the same rules they do.

Newsletter Automation

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Newsletter Automation is the build side of the Project’s monthly AI Updates newsletter. The newsletter has been publishing since February 2025; the project here is the pipeline that produces it — automated collection of candidate items through the month, an editorial workflow that surfaces what’s worth including, and Substack as the distribution layer.

Training Materials

Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Training Materials produces a complete AI training package for legal-education audiences — modules, exercises, microsites, and the accompanying media — and pitches a cross-Penn version of the same package in collaboration with Bhuvnesh Jain.

Judiciary — Teaching the Bench

Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400

The Project’s judiciary workstream — the PennLaw-Judiciary AI Testbed — provides federal judges and their chambers with structured AI access, training, and ongoing support, governed by a formal Memorandum of Understanding. The work spans use-case research, chambers-facing tools, and a continuous feedback loop with participating chambers.

Legal Education at Model Velocity

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0400

Legal Education at Model Velocity is a shipped artifact — a four-module microsite on what AI’s pace of change means for legal education, paired with a cloned-voice podcast, a 45-minute NotebookLM audio overview, and 14 PDF summaries that distill the modules into briefing-document form.