Associate dean for academic affairs, Professor Joseph Landau, and Intellectual Property & Information Law Clinic/Center on Law and Information Policy director, Professor Ron Lazebnik, provide a framework for navigating the convergence of legal technology and legal education in a piece published by the National Law Journal.
Naturally, law schools must consider the rules of the road for student use of generative AI, including the primacy of academic integrity in the wake of new technologies. At Fordham, we quickly convened our permanent and adjunct faculty following Open AI’s release of ChatGPT and made critical policy changes so that unauthorized use of generative AI for classroom assignments and exams would be treated no differently than turning in another person’s work product. These were significant changes that required the input of faculty, administrators and technologists, and law schools must be vigilant to maintain academic integrity. But if our discussions about AI are focused exclusively on integrity and security, we will miss important opportunities, and our students will not be appropriately prepared to enter the rapidly evolving legal marketplace.
Read “Law Schools Must Embrace AI” in the National Law Journal.