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Teach

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

The Project’s teach pillar takes findings and tools out to the people who can use them: law students through course tools and virtual TAs; law faculty through assessment innovations and pedagogy resources; judges and chambers through use-case research and training; and (next phase) small and medium law firms — an underserved segment of the profession.

Direct teaching, training programs, public-facing toolkit publications, and the Project’s faculty-pedagogy support function all live here. Many of our projects span multiple pillars; teach is where most of the Project’s work eventually surfaces.

Projects in Teach

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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
002

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
003

Course-Website Tooling

Generalize the Legal Education at Model Velocity microsite into reusable templates the Project and others can deploy quickly. buildteach Planning
004

Essay Creator

Generate assessment-grade essay exams — issue spotters and fact-pattern questions — with rubrics built for AI-assisted grading. buildteach Active
005

MCQ Creator

Generate law-school multiple-choice questions with built-in distractor validation and psychometric quality controls. buildteach Active
006

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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Newsletter Automation

Build the pipeline that produces the Project's monthly AI newsletter — automated collection, editorial workflow, Substack distribution. buildteach Active
008

Training Materials

Produce a complete AI training package for legal-education audiences — and pitch a cross-Penn version with collaborators. teachbuild Active
009

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
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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