The course · eight 2-hour modules
Sixteen hours, end to end, from reading the room to reading the machine.
Each module takes one move in a lawyer's reasoning — how we judge, frame, infer, and persuade — mirrors it inside a large language model, then proves it live on real AI. Eight modules, two hours each, one continuous arc.
The eight modules
Map the spine
You Already Think Computationally: Legal Reasoning Meets the Machine
You have done computational thinking since your first moot — this module shows you how to wield AI with it, without becoming the lawyer in Mata.
Demystify the machine
How the Machine Learns (and Why It Invents Cases)
Open the black box: see why an LLM predicts the next plausible word, not the true one — and why that makes it fabricate citations with total confidence.
debias
The Lawyer's Blind Spots: Cognitive Bias, Statistics, and the Sycophantic Bot
The same biases that mislead judges and juries are baked into your prompts and your model's training — learn to counter both.
Verify
Decoding the Answer: Verification & the Duty to Check
Verification is not optional polish — it is a professional duty, and the line between using AI well and being sanctioned.
prompt
Prompting Like a Lawyer: Computational Thinking as Prompt-Craft
Turn the four computational-thinking pillars into legal prompt-engineering that gets verifiable, useful output.
Apply: match tool to task
AI in Practice: Research, Drafting, Review, Discovery, Access to Justice
There is no single "legal AI" — there is a right tool for each task, and a wrong tool that gets you sanctioned. Learn to match them.
law-of-AI
Law OF AI: Bias, Evidence, Liability, IP, Data Protection
Stop treating AI only as a tool. Now treat it as a subject of law — and watch how that makes you a safer user of it.
synthesize
Capstone & the Future Lawyer: Becoming the Human-in-the-Loop
Ship a verified AI-assisted work product, defend your process, and own your place in the loop.
Why all eight
A course, not a collection of lectures.
The modules are built to stack. The early hours hand you the decoder — how an answer is judged, framed, and inferred on the human side. The middle hours mirror each of those moves inside the machine. By the capstone, the gold of legal reasoning and the indigo of the model meet in one frame, and you can direct, interrogate, and verify an AI's output the way you would a junior's brief. Apart, each module is a useful two hours; together, they are a complete method for practising law with AI in the room.
See the full syllabus