AI Focused Learning

Building AI Transparency in Legal Education and Practice Through a Collaborative Event

The Spring 2025 AI-Focused Virtual Brown Bag Series

Touro Law Center’s Assistant Dean of Teaching Effectiveness, Patricia Baia, PhD, developed an AI-focused virtual brown bag series for this Spring, 2025 to help faculty and staff discover how generative AI is transforming the landscape of legal education and professional practice.

Tailored specifically for law faculty and staff, these dynamic, interactive sessions explore the practical and ethical implications of AI in academia and the legal profession. Throughout the sessions, attendees will learn cutting-edge strategies for integrating AI tools into teaching, research, and administrative workflows while maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity and professional responsibility.

Dr. Baia stated, “In a new world shaped by AI, the key to progress in education is understanding what we don’t know. We must continue to pave the way for discovery, innovation, and growth, plus create safe and productive pathways for our students to learn. This series is a collaborative event to learn, discuss, and help our faculty revolutionize the way they teach, support students, and lead using AI.”

Session One: “From Precedent to Prediction: AI in Legal Practice and Education”
Jasmin Corwin, EdD, CETL Faculty Fellow 2024-2025 and Associate Professor, Touro University Graduate School of Education

This engaging workshop will examine the transformative impact of AI in legal practice and education. Discover, analyze, and debate the latest applications of AI, from advanced research tools to multiple AI tools currently entering the marketplace. Explore how frameworks like the European AI Act and evolving U.S. regulations reshape legal tools and their use in practice. Learn strategies to prepare your teaching for an AI-driven legal landscape, emphasizing the balance between technological competence and professional accountability. This interactive session will feature real-world examples and practical demonstrations, equipping faculty with actionable insights to enhance their teaching and scholarship.

Session Two: “Prima Facie AI: Leveraging AI for Course Design, Development, and Delivery”
Goran Trajkovski, PhD, Director - Data Analytics at Touro University Illinois

This workshop examines the application of artificial intelligence tools in higher education, with a specific focus on course design, development, delivery, and assessment. Participants will analyze current AI technologies as instructional support tools across the teaching cycle. The workshop covers AI integration in course planning, content creation, student engagement, and assessment strategies. Topics include: using AI for competency development, learning objective generation, content scaffolding, assignment design, and evaluation methods. Through hands-on exploration, participants will evaluate AI tools for course material development, feedback processes, and grading support. The workshop addresses academic integrity, pedagogical effectiveness, and appropriate implementation of AI in legal education.

Session Three: Safeguard Learning while Promoting Ethical AI Proficiency: Teaching the IRAC Method, Case Briefing, and Legal Drafting in a Digital Era
Jamie Sundvall, PhD PsyD, Assistant Provost of Artificial Intelligence at Touro University Systems and the MSW Online Program Director at the Graduate School of Social Work

This workshop explores different AI models and structures for written assignments and course engagement-related activities/processes in the legal field, specifically focusing on what faculty shared as a concern about students developing proper drafting skills. Selected basic areas of legal writing, Lexis functionality and process, and traditional research will also be discussed. The presenter will share alternative tools and ideas that are being used in the field of legal education to help diversify thinking, in addition to the tools they are already utilized (i.e. Ross, Clio Duo, ContractsSafe). Dr. Sundvall will open the floor for a Q&A portion.

Session Four: AI Next Steps & Brainstorm Session
Patricia Baia, PhD, Assistant Dean of Teaching Effectiveness at Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

A faculty brainstorming session to discuss needs and concerns, ask questions, and begin to draft a set of AI outcomes. In this session participants will review pedagogy and student learning, ethical considerations, legal practice implications, academic integrity and policy, faculty and institutional development, research and scholarship, and long-term trends and impacts.