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This latest edition, “Law Disrupted: How Powerful AI Tools Are Transforming Legal Practice and Education” features:
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Through training, testing, and in-house innovation, Stanford Law’s Robert Crown Law Library is becoming a model for how law schools can employ AI and prepare future lawyers for a new era of practice.
Over the past two and a half years, the library team has built an AI framework that spans ...research guidance, tool testing, pedagogy, technical development, and training for students, faculty, and staff.
It also recently added two AI-focused librarians, roles Williams believes are the first of their kind in U.S. academic law libraries.
“Our librarians were experimenting with AI long before anyone asked them to,” says Beth Williams, the Robert Crown Law Library’s associate dean and a senior lecturer. “In fact, much of our AI infrastructure happened organically. People on the team saw where the future was headed and moved quickly in that direction.” Read more in #StanfordLawMag: https://brnw.ch/21x2qii