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Restoring Accountability & the Rule of Law

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I am excited to speak at at Yale Law School’s Access & Accountability 2026: Restoring Accountability & the Rule of Law conference next week:

The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression annually bring together transparency advocates of all stripes to identify current impediments to government openness and to develop strategies for addressing them. Law school clinicians from around the country, together with investigative journalists, academics, practicing lawyers, and law students, explore some of the most urgent transparency issues in the areas of law enforcement, national security and surveillance, government data and personal privacy, and newsgathering rights. The conference is designed to facilitate the development of ongoing relationships, cooperation, and collaboration among practitioners, journalists, and law school faculties to promote governmental accountability and transparency.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and William Eskridge (Yale) will discuss “the current state of the Court, recent criticism of its rulings and the procedures sometimes used to reach them, and the troubling decline in the public’s confidence in the Court.”

My panel will focus on the role of AI in clinical legal education. It will be moderated by Marisol Orihuela (Yale) and the other panelists are Bob Ambrogi (LawNext); Patrick Barry (Michigan) and Lisa Hoppenjans (Wash U.).

The full list of speaker bios for the two-day event is here. Looking forward to it!

 

Law Schools Should Teach How to Integrate AI Tools Into Practice

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The Cornell Law Forum republished an article that I wrote with Robert MacKenzie, Law Schools Should Teach How to Integrate AI Tools Into Practice. It opens,

Now that artificial intelligence tools for lawyers are widely available, we decided to integrate them for a semester in our Entrepreneurship Clinic. We have some important takeaways for legal education in general and the transactional practice of law in particular.

First, employers and educators need to account for law students who already are using AI tools in their legal work and guide new lawyers about how to use such tools appropriately.

Second, different AI products lead to wildly different results. Just demonstrating this to law students is very valuable, as it dispels the notion that AI responses can replace their independent judgment.

Third, AI’s greatest value may be in refining legal judgment for lawyers in ways that can help new and experienced lawyers alike.