Track Three

Have you already gone from worrying about how to teach AI in the classroom to actually teaching AI in the classroom? Do you have materials you want to share and ideas you want to workshop? In this roundtable session, participants will meet and share experiences and instructional materials for AI drafting and research lessons. Participants are encouraged to bring physical or digital copies and handouts of their materials to share in this live-action Teach-In Kit modeled after a recipe-swap. 

Abstract

As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the legal profession, law schools face a critical imperative to evolve their pedagogical approaches. This presentation offers a comprehensive framework for integrating AI across three fundamental domains of legal education: research methodologies, learning experiences, and assessment practices, with special attention to next-generation bar examination preparation.

As new agentic tools like Manus, Cursor, and Windsurf emerge (as of the end of March), we will explore the next generation of those tools at CALI 2025.  This will be a hands-on demo with active debate/disagreement about what vibe coding, lawyering, librarianship, etc means and whether there is a there there.
We will likely touch on strengths and limitations of state-of-the-art tools as well as how vibe coding relates to deep coding. The real program cannot be described in March 2025 because we don't know what will exist in June 2025.

Working within a local IT shop at our university, I have discovered tech competency is linked to a person’s willingness to learn something new.  Long gone are the days where someone had to know a singular app for a job.  In today’s ever changing workplace, small IT shops have the potential to affect big change by building a bridge to tech competency with how-to videos.

The American Bar Association proposed that courses that have multiple sections have Uniform Learning Outcomes. This was a controversial proposal and provides context for this presentation. Rather than addressing the merits of the proposal, the presentation will cover the experiences of an actual uniform curriculum implementation. This will provide some background to those who may have to implement the rule or see advantages in adopting some elements of a uniform curriculum.

Online-remote participants will be Krista Bordatto, Campbell Law School; Joshua Jones, California Western School of Law; and Stephanie Rae Williams, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.

This presentation session will explore how we teaching librarians at Elon Law incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) into our Basic Legal Research class. At my institution, all first-year students are required to take a one-credit Basic Legal Research class in their fall trimester. Last fall, we condensed our federal and state administrative law sessions into one class. This created space and time in our schedule to teach AI. Then we decided the structure of the AI class: a brief Powerpoint lecture followed by an exercise.

The foundation of an open and accessible legal system rests on the ability of courts, researchers, and the public to freely access and reference the law. Yet, legal citation remains controlled by commercial publishers, PACER fees create financial barriers to court records, and proprietary legal research tools restrict public access. Open-source technology, neutral citations, and PACER reform offer a path toward a more equitable system.