{"id":163421,"date":"2026-09-23T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/23\/law-schools-cant-decide-whether-to-teach-ai-or-pretend-it-doesnt-exist\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T21:13:06","slug":"law-schools-cant-decide-whether-to-teach-ai-or-pretend-it-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/23\/law-schools-cant-decide-whether-to-teach-ai-or-pretend-it-doesnt-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Law Schools Can\u2019t Decide Whether To Teach AI Or Pretend It Doesn\u2019t Exist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a difference between outsourcing legal reasoning to AI and using \u200bAI as a tool within a legal workflow, and legal education should teach that distinction rather than avoid it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> <\/span>AI at Berkeley Law, a student-run organization at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, in a statement given to<\/strong><\/em> Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, criticizing the school\u2019s restrictive AI policy<\/a>. While law schools across the country experiment with laptop bans, mandatory technology courses, and everything in between, students are concerned that excessive caution may leave them unprepared to use tools their future employers increasingly expect them to understand<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The post Law Schools Can\u2019t Decide Whether To Teach AI Or Pretend It Doesn\u2019t Exist<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a difference between outsourcing legal reasoning to AI and using \u200bAI as a tool within a legal workflow, and legal education should teach that distinction rather than avoid it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i> AI at Berkeley Law, a student-run organization at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, in a statement given to<\/strong><\/em> Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, criticizing the school\u2019s restrictive AI policy<\/a>. While law schools across the country experiment with laptop bans, mandatory technology courses, and everything in between, students are concerned that excessive caution may leave them unprepared to use tools their future employers increasingly expect them to understand<\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. There\u2019s a difference between outsourcing legal reasoning to AI and using \u200bAI as a tool within a legal workflow, and legal education should teach that distinction rather than avoid it. \u2014 AI at Berkeley Law, a student-run organization at the University of California, Berkeley School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}