GenAI in Law School Clinics

GenAI in Law School Clinics

A Virtual Conference for Clinical Law Faculty & Staff

Presented by the Berkeley Law Clinical Program

Date: Friday, November 6, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM PT

Format: Virtual, via Zoom webinar

 

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GenAI in Law School Clinics brings together clinical law faculty and staff for a day of critical, practical conversation about how generative AI intersects with clinical legal education. The goal of the conference is to convene a community of clinical colleagues who are wrestling with similar issues to learn from one another and discuss best practices around GenAI in clinics and how to incorporate them.

Across three plenary sessions and two breakout blocks, we’ll discuss the new contexts in which clinical faculty and students are working, how new law school AI policies are working in practice in clinical settings, and the skills that clinics are teaching using GenAI tools. We will also have the opportunity to discuss professional responsibility questions and implementation challenges in subject matter-specific groups.


Agenda

8:30 – 8:45 AM

Welcome

Ty Alper, Clinical Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, and faculty co-director of the Clinical Program, UC Berkeley Law

8:45 – 9:35 AM

Plenary 1: Context & Critiques

A panel on the professional responsibilities of attorneys using GenAI tools, as well as considerations of labor rights, environmental impacts, and more. How can clinics teach students to reckon with these questions and costs, whether through incorporating, limiting, or declining to use these tools?

  • Amanda Levendowski Tepski, Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic, Georgetown Law
  • Danielle Pelfrey Duryea, Assistant Professor and inaugural director of the Medical Legal Partnership, Saint Louis University School of Law
  • Gabe Pacyniak, Professor of Law and co-supervisor of the Natural Resources and Environmental Law Clinic, The University of New Mexico School of Law
  • Jonathan Smith, Professor of Practice and Director of the Entrepreneurship Clinic, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
9:35 – 9:45 AM

Break

9:45 – 10:35 AM

Plenary 2: Clinical AI Policies in Practice

A panel on the development and implementation of AI policies in law schools, clinical programs, and individual clinics. What are faculty noticing in terms of student learning, teaching approaches, and clinic work product as these policies are used in clinical practice? 

  • Debra Chopp, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Clinical Professor of Law, and Director of the Pediatric Advocacy Clinic, Michigan Law
  • Laura Riley, Assistant Dean of Clinical Education, UC Berkeley Law
  • Valentina Rozo Angel, Clinical Supervisor, Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic, UC Berkeley Law
  • Jayashri Srikantiah, Professor of Law and founding director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Stanford Law School
10:35 – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 – 11:30 AM

Breakout Block 1

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

(Lunch/Coffee) Break

12:00 – 1:15 PM

Plenary 3: Pedagogy of AI in Clinics

A panel on how clinical faculty are incorporating GenAI tools into their seminars and project work. What best practices are emerging with respect to the teaching of AI in the clinical setting? What are our learning objectives for AI use in clinics?

  • Cecily Banks, Director, Corporate Counsel Externship Program and Senior Lecturer, Boston University School of Law
  • Jade Brown, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and founder and Executive Director for the Consumer Economic Justice Clinic, Boston University School of Law
  • Katherine Hughes, Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, Fordham School of Law
  • Jason Schultz, Professor of Law, director of the Technology Law & Policy Clinic, and co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, NYU Law
1:15 – 1:55 PM

Breakout Block 2

1:55 PM – 2:00 PM

Closing