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Spring Short Course | A Litigator's Guide to AI. Attention Is All You Need?
Stanford Law School “Short Courses" are intensive one- or two-unit offerings that run just a few weeks and bring distinguished judges, practitioners, and policymakers into the classroom.
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📣 We are thrilled to introduce a new Spring Short Course, A Litigator’s Guide to AI. Attention Is All You Need? (1102), taught by Christopher Kercher, a Commercial Litigation Partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP.
🔍 Course Overview: Dive into the world of Large ...Language Models (LLMs) and discover how they can be integrated into everyday legal practice! This course offers a unique perspective on the intersection of litigation and artificial intelligence. You’ll learn how the skill of attention—a hallmark of exceptional legal advocacy—parallels the transformer architecture that powers LLMs.
Stanford Law School “Short Courses” are intensive one- or two-unit offerings that run just a few weeks and bring distinguished judges, practitioners, and policymakers into the classroom.
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Through Stanford Law School’s Law and Policy Lab, students recently worked on a timely question with major real-world stakes: how should the criminal justice system evaluate and govern AI?
Their research, done in partnership with the Council on Criminal Justice Task Force on Artificial ...Intelligence, explores why existing institutions often lack the technical capacity to assess these tools and what a more durable model could look like.
Read a Substack post by Jonathan Wroblewski, one of the policy lab’s instructors, about the project:
(Originally published in the Sentencing Matters Substack on March 26, 2026) Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant or speculative technology
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Professor Ralph Richard Banks on a key theme from a recent Stanford Law conference on AI and antidiscrimination law: "AI governance is increasingly being understood, correctly, as something that requires technical expertise, legal judgment, institutional knowledge, and attention to civil ...rights all at once.”
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Why do societal challenges persist despite unprecedented wealth and technology? Join us for a fireside chat with Francis Fukuyama and Marc Dunkelman on April 7 at Stanford Law School. They will discuss the complexities of institutional decay, the bureaucratic bloat, and what must be done to rebuild... state capacity in the 21st century.
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