As AI transforms legal practice, law schools must shift from teaching perfection and certainty to fostering exploration, trial and error, and human-centered skills. The University of Michigan’s AI Law and Policy Clinic demonstrates this approach by having students build AI tools for real justice issues, proving that combining technology with empathy and iteration prepares lawyers to lead a more accessible legal system.
As AI transforms legal practice, law schools must shift from teaching perfection and certainty to fostering exploration, trial and error, and human-centered skills. The University of Michigan’s AI Law and Policy Clinic demonstrates this approach by having students build AI tools for real justice issues, proving that combining technology with empathy and iteration prepares lawyers to lead a more accessible legal system.
