Quick,
name
the
canon
introductory
courses
for
law
students.
Constitutional
Law,
Torts,
Contracts,
Criminal
Law,
Civil
Procedure,
Property,
and
Legal
Writing.
Did
you
get
them
all?
Great!
Unless
you’re
planning
to
start
your
legal
career
at
Mississippi
College
School
of
Law.
Recently,
Justice
Sotomayor
advised
law
students
to
master
AI
before
they
graduate.
Once
optional,
Mississippi
law
students’
grades
will
now
depend
on
their
rapid
adoption
of
artificial
intelligence.
Huff
Post
has
coverage:
Mississippi
College
School
of
Law
is
one
of
the
first
schools
in
the
nation
to
tackle
the
growing
influence
of
artificial
intelligence
in
jurisprudence
by
making
AI
education
mandatory
for
all
students.For
John
Anderson,
dean
of
the
school,
the
goal
is
to
train
law
students
“to
use
the
technology
effectively,
efficiently,
and
ethically
and
avoid
a
lot
of
the
headlines
that
you’ve
seen
already
where
lawyers
take
shortcuts
by
using
these
technologies.”MC
is
the
first
law
school
in
the
Southeast
to
require
all
students
to
complete
an
AI
course.
While
the
school
has
other
AI
classes,
a
general
course
is
now
mandatory
for
all
first-year
students.
Many
schools
in
the
T14
moved
to
incorporate
Harvey
as
an
option
for
law
students,
but
they’ve
(as
far
as
we
know)
left
its
adoption
up
to
the
students’
discretion.
Mississippi
trained
their
students
using
Wickard
AI.
The
dean
is
right
to
warn
students
that
shoddy
work
and
AI
make
for
great
headlines
and
career
damage
—
just
remain
cautious,
you
don’t
want
to
become
so
dependent
on
the
service
that
you
miss
out
on
the
grunt
work
that
makes
you
think
like
a
lawyer.
Getting
the
Palsgraf
holding
from
a
Quimbee
summary
might
be
enough
to
get
you
through
a
cold
call
or
the
points
you
need
for
an
essay
question,
but
personally
parsing
through
difficult
text
for
extended
periods
of
time
is
a
hard-won
skill
that
will
serve
you
in
the
long
run.
You
will
have
to
do
the
work
on
your
own
at
some
point.
After
all,
running
your
client’s
information
through
some
LLMs
can
be
enough
to
void
attorney-client
privilege.
This
is
the
sort
of
obvious
stuff
that
should
be
covered
in
the
class,
but
what’s
the
harm
in
reinforcing
the
lessons
you
picked
up
from
a
two-day
course?
Best
of
luck
forced
guinea
pigs,
early
adapters!
Make
the
most
of
your
legal
education
and
try
to
stay
sane
in
the
process.
I’d
say
that
generally,
but
the
advice
takes
a
more
clinical
tone
when
it
comes
to
regular
AI
use.
Mississippi
Law
School
Makes
AI
Education
Mandatory
For
All
Students
[Huff
Post]
Earlier:
Justice
Sotomayor
Advises
Law
Students
On
AI
Adoption
—
There
Should
Have
Been
A
Stronger
Warning
Lawyers
Using
ChatGPT:
Let’s
Be
Careful
Harvey
Snags
Even
More
Seats
In
The
T14!
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boat
builder
who
is
learning
to
swim
and
is
interested
in
rhetoric,
Spinozists
and
humor.
Getting
back
in
to
cycling
wouldn’t
hurt
either.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at
[email protected]
and
by
Tweet/Bluesky
at @WritesForRent.