In role playing games (RPGs) players assume the roles of characters in a simulated world. Not just anything goes, however. Outcomes are shaped by structure, the result of a player's actions interacting with an imagined reality. This session will show you how to turn legal cases into simple tabletop RPGs you can play with students by wrapping some rules around legal fact patterns and gathering a group of three or more players.
Legal technology skills—from widely-used tools like MS Word, Excel, Acrobat, practice management systems, document management platforms, and e-discovery software, to emerging technologies like generative AI—are crucial for today's law students. But, given the rapid pace of innovation, instructors also need to prepare students for technologies that don’t yet exist. In this session, we explore practices for designing effective, interactive, simulation-based exercises that help students master current legal tech and equip them to confidently approach future technological changes.
Ever wanted to set up your own personal AI to use whenever you want, even if you don’t have internet access? In this session, I’ll show you how to get started in under 15 minutes! We’ll also explore the best specs for different AIs, uses for local AIs, and the limits of these tools.
We, the Law Librarian Benchmarking Group, started with what seemed like an easy enough task: Create simple tools that law librarians can use to benchmark the latest AI research tools so they can choose the best ones for their work. But with AI changing faster than even the most enthusiastic afficiandos can keep pace with, we've found ourselves diverging from our original mission to focus more on benchmarking in general.
In this session we'll:
CALI is a lot of things: Code for authoring lessons and ebooks, websites that deliver lessons, assessments, ebooks and awards, and the content of the lessons and ebooks themselves.
But most important, CALI is the staff, Board, authors and editorial reviewers - truly a community of effort.
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.
This session explores the critical role of technology competence in legal education. Law librarians play a pivotal role in legal education by providing a significant portion of technology instruction and fostering innovation in ABA-accredited law schools. Law librarians achieve these outcomes by leveraging their expertise in information management and technological literacy.
AI Amicus Curiae: Bots as Friends of the Legal Classroom
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AI Amicus Curiae: Bots as Friends of the Law Student
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Discover how our law school has revolutionized legal education through strategic AI integration. We've developed specialized bots that serve as virtual "friends of the law student" - enhancing teaching through personalized support and immediate feedback.
Artificial intelligence is becoming ubiquitous. As lawyers and educators, we often discuss the potential harm that AI can impose on student learning, and we often focus on the potential challenges it will bring. But what if we could harness the power of AI to improve student learning and support for our students? Students certainly are aware of the programs available to help them generate practice questions, study material, and memorize content. However, they often navigate these programs without our guidance due to our lack of knowledge of what’s out there.
In this session, LII Co-Directors Sara Frug & Craig Newton, along with Justia Inc. CEO Tim Stanley, will each address how their work in providing free legal information to the public is being impacted by artificial intelligence. The session will highlight both the opportunities and challenges for Free Law as a result of the AI boom. Plus, pictures of dogs!
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