Keep in mind that ABA Survey of Legislation Faculties with AI Lessons? This Might Be A Extra Correct Checklist

I recently wrote here about an American Bar Association survey of regulation faculties that provide AI lessons. The survey discovered that 55% of responding regulation faculties supply such lessons. A Reuters news story picked up on that and reported, “Greater than half of regulation faculties now supply lessons on AI.” 

The issue with that Reuters story, as I famous in my weblog publish, was that solely 29 out of 200 regulation faculties responded to the ABA survey. So when the survey mentioned that 55% supplied AI lessons, that meant simply 16 regulation faculties, or simply 8% of all regulation faculties.

Within the wake of all that, April Dawson, affiliate dean of know-how and innovation and professor of regulation at North Carol​ina Central College Faculty of Legislation​, alerted me to another supply of knowledge on regulation faculties that provide AI lessons. That supply is a listing she maintains, along with Daniel W. Linna Jr., senior lecturer and director of regulation and know-how initiatives at Northwestern Legislation Faculty, of courses related to AI and the law.

Their listing, which is self-reported by the professors who educate the programs, offers descriptions of greater than 100 such programs — though not all are at regulation faculties or within the U.S.  It additionally lists 136 professors who’re at the moment educating AI and law-related programs.

I’ve gone by means of that listing and located that it comprises 62 U.S. regulation faculties with programs associated to AI. (That quantity excludes non-U.S. and non-law faculties which might be on the listing.)

If we assume that variety of 62 is appropriate, that will imply that 31% of U.S. regulation faculties at the moment supply programs on AI.

Nonetheless, I do know that even this listing is incomplete, for the straightforward cause that I do know of different programs on AI and the regulation that aren’t listed right here. For instance, I do know that Fastcase founder Ed Walters teaches two such courses at Georgetown Legislation Faculty and one other at Cornell Legislation Faculty/Cornell tech. More than likely, there are different programs that aren’t included on the regulation profs listing. (Anybody educating such a course can request to join the list.)

Of the colleges on the regulation profs listing, a number of supply a number of programs associated to AI. The full variety of programs associated to AI at U.S. regulation faculties is 99, in line with the listing.

The regulation faculty with probably the most programs is Suffolk College Faculty of Legislation, with seven programs, adopted by North Carolina Central College Faculty of Legislation and the College of Missouri, Kansas Metropolis, Faculty of Legislation, every with 4 programs.

Though the regulation profs listing just isn’t sorted by faculty, I went by means of it and compiled the desk under. It exhibits the colleges with AI programs and the variety of AI-related programs taught at every.

Value noting is that the programs listed on the AI professors’ website come on the matter of AI from many instructions. Some are centered on sensible abilities whereas others deal with authorized and coverage points. Some look like dedicated to AI, whereas others cowl AI solely as a part of a broader tech survey.

Right here is the listing of regulation faculties I extracted from the AI profs listing: