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 |
WelcomeTy 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 & CritiquesA 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?
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| 9:35 – 9:45 AM |
Break |
| 9:45 – 10:35 AM |
Plenary 2: Clinical AI Policies in PracticeA 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?
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| 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 ClinicsA 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?
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| 1:15 – 1:55 PM |
Breakout Block 2 |
| 1:55 PM – 2:00 PM |
Closing |