Penn Carey Law AI Project / Toolkit
Start here for Fall 2026
03001Fall 2026 syllabus language for teaching in an age of AI, organized by course type, assignment design, disclosure, and assessment choices.
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public 002The Penn Carey Law hub for AI tool access, setup, data policy, and product-specific guidance.
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public 003A plain-language guide for federal judges and chambers staff: how AI tools differ from legal research systems, observed chambers use cases sorted by risk, and guardrails.
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public Teaching and course design
08004A complete law-school assignment pattern that preserves evidence of independent analysis while teaching students to supervise AI critique and make defensible revisions.
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public 005A complete exercise for assessing legal analysis, authority verification, and professional judgment by having students diagnose and repair AI output.
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public 006A scalable checkpoint structure for seminar papers and substantial projects, with stage-specific AI rules, feedback, and a revision-focused rubric.
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public 007A proportionate assessment-twins pattern combining disclosed AI-assisted work with a short, independently completed application or explanation.
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public 008Fall 2026 principles for responsible AI use in legal education: course policies, learning goals, student use, faculty use, verification, confidentiality, and equity.
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public 009Professor Struve's attribution and disclosure model, with sample AI-use statements faculty can drop into syllabi.
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public 010Reusable prompt patterns for class preparation, hypotheticals, practice problems, virtual course assistants, and AI-output critique.
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public 011Heron plus the design choices behind course-bounded virtual teaching assistants: corpus, citations, refusals, student expectations, privacy, maintenance, and assessment fit.
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public Student guidance
02012Written for incoming 1Ls. How LLMs work, their strengths and weaknesses, the human-AI-human workflow, course rules, confidentiality, and prompting tips.
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public 013Talking points for orientation sessions and 1L AI-introduction events.
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public Methods and practice
02014A durable prompting framework for law-school and legal-work tasks, with worked examples for class preparation, practice questions, and legal research.
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public 015A category-based guide to legal AI tools, focused on what different tool families do and how to evaluate outputs.
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