Issue: Winter 2025
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Cover Story Winter 2025
At the Crest of a Wave: Artificial Intelligence in the Law Quad
Artificial intelligence tools have arrived. Millions of people are using them every day, and they are shaping the lived experience of nearly everyone—including those who would prefer to eschew the technology. Lawyers and law schools are no exception. In this series of articles, Law Quadrangle examines how our faculty and students are navigating this new landscape and exploring how AI may be incorporated into legal education and the profession.
Features Winter 2025
AI and the Evolution of Law and Legal Education
As society pieces together how artificial intelligence (AI) fits into the education puzzle, Professor Nicholson Price invites Michigan Law students to wrestle with questions of how the law shapes AI and how AI shapes the law.
Features Winter 2025
Michigan Law Students Get Hands-on with AI Tools
When 3L Ryan Distaso first came to Michigan Law, he was a self-described “AI Luddite” and possessed a healthy skepticism about artificial intelligence. Intent on demystifying the technology, Distaso turned to AI Sandbox, a Law School class taught by Patrick Barry, clinical assistant professor of law and director of digital academic initiatives.
Features Winter 2025
New Michigan Law Clinic to Explore if AI Tools Can Broaden Legal Access
Professors Bridgette Carr, ’02, and Vivek Sankaran, ’01, have dedicated their careers to finding ways to make the justice system accessible to people who have been left behind. Now, they’re looking to artificial intelligence (AI) as an ally in the effort.
Features Winter 2025
Michigan Law Mini-seminar Considers AI Doomerism and Technology Risk
Assistant Professor Salomé Viljoen’s mini-seminar, Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?, opened with discussion about what AI technologists and philosophers call the alignment problem: Will AI develop in a way that conflicts with the continued existence of humanity?
Features Winter 2025
New Research from Michigan Law Professors Supports Real-World Value of AI for Lawyers
Most past empirical research has concluded that generative AI tools don’t offer much value in real-world lawyering. However, a new study by Professors J.J. Prescott, Patrick Barry, and their colleagues suggests that AI can help with particular legal tasks—in terms of speed, clarity, and, in some cases, accuracy and legal reasoning.
Features Winter 2025
Professor Patrick Barry Wants His Students to Become “Conspicuously Good” at AI
When he teaches about artificial intelligence and the legal profession, Professor Patrick Barry’s goal is for his students to become the go-to person in their office, their industry, or their network when someone needs help with an AI-related issue or wants to learn more about the latest AI innovation.
Features Winter 2025
AI and Legal Research in the Michigan Law Library
Christine Schauder, who joined Michigan Law in 2025 in the new role of head of emerging legal technologies in the Law Library, oversees the Law School’s Legal Tech Series, an ongoing program that offers training and resources for students to learn about new legal tools, including those powered by AI.
In Practice Winter 2025
For Sean Grimsley, ’00, and Eric Olson, ’00, Co-founders of an Impact Litigation Firm, Their Partnership Began at Michigan Law
When Sean Grimsley, ’00, and Eric Olson, ’00, started their impact litigation firm in September 2023, they had the loftiest of goals: to chart a path that would allow them to make a difference in the world. Two years after founding Denver-based Olson Grimsley, they are realizing that goal by taking on several cases that support the public interest through plaintiff-side litigation.