Having the Federalist Society and the American Constitution Society host an event together would be asking for disaster.
At least that was ChatGPT’s sentiment when Kristi Jobson, the assistant dean for admissions at Harvard Law School, asked the chatbot how to arrange campus groups for a student event. It even advised seating the traditionally conservative and progressive law societies on opposite sides of the room — otherwise the result “could be really combustible.”
American Constitution Society event chair Abbott LaPrade laughed about AI’s prediction as he introduced panelists for the recent event titled “Is the Roberts Court Legitimate?”
The talk was part of the “From Dissent to Dialogue” series, one of eight student-led projects funded by the President’s Building Bridges Fund across six graduate Schools and the College. It brought together law scholars from differing ideological perspectives to debate the provocative question about the nation’s highest court.
It was, in Law School Dean John C.P. Goldberg’s words, “exactly what was envisioned” for the fund — “getting people together who disagree to learn from each other, to see where they really agree and where they really disagree.”
