As has been widely reported, two of the country’s most influential law schools have adopted markedly different approaches to generative artificial intelligence.
The law school at University of California, Berkeley, implemented a highly restrictive AI policy, broadly prohibiting students from using generative AI in graded work, including for “conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating or editing” purposes, and banning its use entirely during examinations.
The University of Chicago Law School took a different approach, banning electronic devices in core first-year classes, with plans to introduce supervised AI use later in the curriculum, in electives and upper-level classes, after students have developed foundational legal skills. Chicago is also piloting a hybrid approach to its first-year legal research and writing course that “will treat writing without AI as the foundation and will layer writing with AI onto it.”
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