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Books and teaching resources on AI in legal practice

A reading list for people teaching AI in legal practice or legal education, including non-JD programs: textbooks, casebooks, study aids, open materials, and course sites, with tables of contents for most of the books. Pick a topic on the left to see which books have a chapter on it, or use the + beside another topic to find the books that cover both. Search covers titles, authors, descriptions, chapter titles, and topics, and each result says where the match was found. The filters narrow by how a title can be obtained and what kind of book it is. Titles marked Subscription are in the West Academic Study Aids package many law libraries license. Prices and dates are as of the last check.

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  • AI Competence and Law Practice for Law Students

    Daniel W. Linna Jr. · Practising Law Institute, Aug. 2026 · Online course

    Free twelve-module asynchronous course on AI competence for law students, produced by PLI with Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Requires a PLI account.

    Free to read
  • Superjustice: Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    Samuel I. Becher and Benjamin Alarie · Oxford University Press, July 30, 2026, 256 pp. · Monograph

    Argues for an AI-driven redesign of legal systems. Diagnoses failures in current legal systems and maps implementation challenges across technical, human, governance, and societal domains.

    Contents (11 chapters)
    1. A Paradigm Shift Part I, The Foundations of Superjustice.
    2. Ten Pillars of Legal Dysfunctionality
    3. Toward Hybrid Legal Decentralization
    4. From Gridlock to Dynamism
    5. The New Code of Justice Part II, Implementation and Realization of Superjustice.
    6. Pervasive Justice
    7. Educating for Superjustice
    8. The Future of Justice Work Part III, Future Directions and Challenges.
    9. CRISPR-J in the Age of Superjustice
    10. Charting Superjustice
    11. Conclusion: Law for Human Flourishing

    Source: global.oup.com

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  • Introduction to AI Law and Policy: Primary Legal and Policy Sources on AI Governance

    Margaret Hu · Aspen Publishing, July 2026 · Casebook

    Shorter primary-source volume on AI governance from the author of the full AI Law and Policy casebook.

    Contents (11 chapters)
    1. Introduction Title taken from the companion casebook; the first pages of the contents were not captured.
    2. Definitions Title taken from the companion casebook. AI systems and taxonomy, machine learning, natural language processing, data science, perception and robotics; narrow, predictive, generative, and theoretical AI; AI lifecycles.
    3. Conceptualizing AI Governance Hard and soft law, horizontal and vertical oversight, self-governance, multistakeholder governance; rights-based (Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights) and risk-based (NIST AI RMF) frameworks; the EU AI Act as hybrid; Rodgers v. Christie; Colorado and California statutes.
    4. Algorithmic Discrimination and Disparate Impact Blueprint, NIST, EU AI Act and GDPR, Colorado AI Consumer Protection Act; State v. Loomis, ACLU v. Clearview AI, FTC v. Rite Aid; executive orders 14179 and 14110, the joint enforcement statement, federal procurement and contractor guidance.
    5. Transparency and Explanation EU AI Act and GDPR transparency, right to explanation, notice and disclosure; Deyerler v. HireVue, HireVue's explainability statement, the Facebook Papers, the proposed Algorithmic Accountability Act, FTC v. TransUnion Rental Screening.
    6. Data Privacy and Autonomy California constitution, Google Assistant litigation, UN and European human rights instruments, the PNR case; Snowden and Schrems, Klayman v. Obama, Cambridge Analytica, FTC settlements with Facebook.
    7. Personhood and Citizenship Citizens United, Lehrman v. LOVO, Thaler v. Vidal and USPTO inventorship guidance, Thaler v. Perlmutter and Copyright Office registration guidance, Sophia's Saudi citizenship, Moffatt v. Air Canada.
    8. Human Oversight and Generative AI EU AI Act human oversight, UNESCO ethical impact assessment, the intelligence community ethics framework, OMB memo, Microsoft Responsible AI Standard; regulating foundation models; California training data transparency; NIST generative AI profile; New York Times v. Microsoft and OpenAI.
    9. AI Ethics and Audits UNESCO recommendation, Mastercard principles; agency AI inventories and governance boards; ISACA and European Court of Auditors guidance, AI Security Institute evaluations; EU AI Act conformity assessment and market surveillance.
    10. Remedies and Preventive Measures Prohibited practices, the Somerville facial recognition ban, the Amazon Alexa order; impact assessments and testing; algorithmic disgorgement in Kurbo, punitive damages, injunctive relief.
    11. Humanity and Sustainability WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, workforce training acts, AI in education and research, GDPR research rules, the CHIPS Act; sustainability reporting, UN capacity-building resolution, environmental impacts.

    Source: aspenpublishing.com

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  • The Cambridge Handbook of AI and Technologies in Courts

    Monika Zalnieriute and Agne Limante, eds. · Cambridge University Press, May 2026 · Monograph

    Comparative handbook on how courts use AI and digital technologies, with more than seventy contributors from over twenty-five countries covering Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Africa. Treats AI in courts as a question of judicial accountability and the rule of law.

    Contents (45 chapters)
    1. AI in Courtrooms Across the Globe
    2. AI and Courts: Challenges and Opportunities Part I, Courts and AI: Context and Normative Positions.
    3. The History and Developments of AI in Courts: A Legal Informatics Perspective
    4. Judging and Limits on Legal Automation
    5. Chief Justice Robots
    6. The Rule of AI and the Rule of Law
    7. Artificial Intelligence in the Judiciary: A Threat to the Rule of Law?
    8. Anticipatory Governance and AI in Courts
    9. The Internalisation and Externalisation of Judicial Functions in the Age of AI Part II, Courts and AI: Disciplinary Perspectives.
    10. AI Generated Evidence Used in European Criminal Courtrooms
    11. Courts and AI: An Administrative Law Perspective
    12. Criminal Courts and AI: On the Role and Use of Algorithms at Sentencing
    13. AI in Criminal Justice: Against the Trade Secret Privilege
    14. Public Perceptions of Judicial Use of AI: A Legal and Psychological Perspective
    15. AI and Judicial Transparency Part III, AI and Tech Challenges to Judicial Values.
    16. Judicial Independence: Impact of AI on Courts
    17. Judicial Impartiality: AI in Courts
    18. Procedural Fairness, AI and Courts
    19. AI and the Judicial Duty to State Reasons
    20. Balancing Legal Certainty and Judicial Discretion in AI-Assisted Adjudication
    21. AI and the Efficiency of Courts
    22. AI, Judicial Diversity, and Representativeness
    23. Judicial Competence and AI
    24. AI and Judicial Accountability
    25. AI and Courts: An International Human Rights Perspective Part IV, AI in Courts Across the Globe: Jurisdictional Perspectives. International and regional jurisdictions.
    26. AI at the European Court of Human Rights
    27. The Right to a Fair Trial & the 'AI-Equipped-Judges' of the Future
    28. EU AI Act and Courts
    29. AI Literacy and the Judiciary under the EU AI Act
    30. Generative AI and Courts in the UK: A Candle in a Hurricane Europe.
    31. AI and the Courts in Germany
    32. Digital Justice in Estonia
    33. AI in Courts in Eastern Europe: Lithuania & Poland
    34. AI and Courts in Central Europe: Croatia and Slovenia
    35. AI and Courts in Spain
    36. Courts and the Use of Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Türkiye
    37. Generative AI and Courts in the United States The Americas.
    38. The Regulation of Judicial Use of Artificial Intelligence in Colombia from the Perspective of Legal Field Theory
    39. Courting AI: How Brazilian Courts are Using AI
    40. Application of Technologies and AI in the Nigerian Court System: Challenges and Prospects Other parts of the world.
    41. AI and India's Judicial System: Lessons from POCSO
    42. Algorithmic Justice: AI Sentencing Tools in Taiwan
    43. AI and Courts in Japan
    44. Courts and AI: A View from Australia and New Zealand
    45. The Future of Courts and AI

    Source: www.cambridge.org

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  • Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law in a Nutshell

    Korin Munsterman · West Academic, Apr. 2026, 618 pp. · Study aid

    Survey of AI in legal practice. Covers sanctions cases beginning with Mata v. Avianca, ABA Formal Opinion 512 and state guidance, practice applications, the EU AI Act, bias, liability, deepfakes and evidence, and governance policies and vendor checklists in the appendices.

    Contents (24 chapters)
    1. The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Legal Practice
    2. What Is Artificial Intelligence
    3. Generative Artificial Intelligence
    4. Revolutionizing Legal Practice with AI
    5. Principles of Ethical AI for Legal Professionals
    6. Bias in Artificial Intelligence Systems
    7. Liability in the Age of AI
    8. Artificial Intelligence and the Courts
    9. AI and the Business of Law Practice
    10. Appendix A: AI Tool Evaluation Form
    11. Appendix B: Client Informed Consent Templates
    12. Appendix C: Verification Documentation Checklist
    13. Appendix D: AI Incident Report Form
    14. Appendix E: Practice Area-Specific Protocols
    15. Appendix F: Approved AI Tools List
    16. Appendix G: Glossary of AI Terms
    17. Appendix H: Quick Reference Guide to AI Use in Legal Practice
    18. Appendix I: Court AI Disclosure Requirements by Jurisdiction
    19. Appendix J: Training Curriculum and Resources
    20. Appendix K: Prompt Libraries, Uses and Examples for Lawyers
    21. Appendix L: CustomGPTs, Uses and Examples Guide
    22. Appendix M: Advanced Prompting Techniques for Lawyers
    23. Appendix N: Comparative Guide to Generative AI Platforms for Legal Practice
    24. Appendix O: A Comprehensive List of Legal Tech Using AI

    Source: subscription.westacademic.com

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  • AI Law and Policy: Selected Statutes, Regulations, and Other Materials

    Margaret Hu · Aspen Publishing, Feb. 2026, 684 pp. · Supplement

    Statutory and regulatory supplement. Collects federal AI legislation, the Colorado and California acts, executive orders, and EU and Chinese materials. Usable on its own without the casebook.

    Contents (11 chapters)
    1. Part I: Selected U.S. Federal Statutes and Executive Orders
    2. Part II: Selected U.S. State Statutes and Executive Orders
    3. Part III: European Union
    4. Part IV: China (PRC)
    5. Part V: Other Selected International Frameworks
    6. Appendix A: United States Constitution
    7. Appendix B: Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
    8. Appendix C: Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)
    9. Appendix D: AI Risk Management Framework, Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile
    10. Appendix E: Biden Memoranda and Other Documents
    11. Appendix F: Trump Memoranda and Other Documents

    Source: aspenpublishing.com

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  • The AI-Enabled Law Firm

    Lee Dittmar and Carole Stern Switzer · American Bar Association, Feb. 2026 · Practitioner book

    Governance frameworks, training, and ethics for adopting AI in a law firm.

    Contents (17 chapters)
    1. The AI Revolution in Legal Services Hype versus reality, key technologies, agentic AI, the competitive necessity of adoption.
    2. Using AI Tools in Your Legal Practice Document review, legal research and analytics, contract analysis, litigation analytics, knowledge management, operations.
    3. Practice-Specific AI Applications Litigation, transactional, regulatory counseling, other specialties.
    4. Managing Your Firm's Knowledge with AI Evolution of knowledge management, ethics and governance, a tiered framework, multimodal capture.
    5. Professional Responsibility and AI Foundational obligations, emerging challenges, frameworks for ethical governance.
    6. Managing Legal and Compliance Risks with AI Privacy and security, confidentiality, bias, regulatory compliance, malpractice, insurance, vendor due diligence.
    7. Creating Your AI Strategy Readiness assessment, use cases, business case, metrics, vendor selection, change management.
    8. AI Technology Selection and Implementation The technology landscape, an evaluation framework, testing, data foundations, governance, security.
    9. Training Your People on AI Required competencies, training programs, measuring effectiveness, ethics, client conversations, resistance to change.
    10. Creating AI Policies and Governance Policy components, quality control, model risk management, governance technology, international dimensions.
    11. Preparing Your Workforce for the AI Future Changing roles, skills, structure, career paths and compensation.
    12. Communicating with Clients About AI Disclosure requirements, pricing and value, expectations, client feedback.
    13. Using AI for Project Management and Budgeting Budget development and tracking, resource allocation, contractual frameworks.
    14. International AI Considerations Regional regulation, cross-jurisdiction governance, international client service, outside counsel.
    15. Next-Generation AI and Beyond Future capabilities, convergence with other technologies, professional transformation.
    16. Building a Future-Ready Organization Innovation ecosystems, competitive boundaries, sustainability, measuring ROI.
    17. Appendices Ten recommendations for law firms; ten for in-house counsel; twenty-five discussion questions.

    Source: www.americanbar.org

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  • A Lawyer's Guide to AI: Ten Essential Concepts

    Matthew T. Henshon · American Bar Association, Jan. 2026, 270 pp. · Practitioner book

    Ten concepts, one per chapter, that lawyers need in order to work with AI.

    Contents (10 chapters)
    1. What Is AI?
    2. Content Creation
    3. Fair Use
    4. Bias
    5. Privacy
    6. Ethics and Laws
    7. Employment
    8. AI That Moves: Drones and Self-Driving Cars
    9. China
    10. The Dark Side

    Source: www.americanbar.org

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  • AI and the Law: A Problem-Based Approach

    Becka Rich · H2O open casebook, 2026 · Syllabus

    Problem-based open casebook organized around tool evaluation and compliance planning. Readings are tagged by audience, including a set marked for MLS students. The 2026 rebuild supersedes the 2024 edition.

    Open
  • AI for Law and Finance

    Michael J. Bommarito II, Daniel Martin Katz, and Jillian Bommarito · Open textbook series, 2026 · Textbook

    Open textbook series. Book 1, Agentic AI in Law and Finance, covers agents as a concept, agent design, and governance, without exercises. Book 2, LLM Essentials, is forthcoming and covers language-model literacy. Chapters are released one at a time on GitHub and SSRN. The site also has free explainers and a glossary.

    Contents (10 chapters)
    1. LLM Primer and Mechanics Part I, Foundations. Tokens, sampling, embeddings, context windows, and failure modes for practitioners. In progress.
    2. Conversations and Reasoning Multi-turn state management, context strategies, and reasoning patterns such as chain-of-thought and ReAct. In progress.
    3. Structured Outputs and Tool Use JSON schemas, validation, function calling, RAG basics, and the evidence record. In progress.
    4. Multimodal Fundamentals Documents, images, tables, charts, and audio, with privacy for regulated domains. In progress.
    5. Prompt Design and Optimization Specifications, evaluation test sets, meta-prompting, threat modeling, and versioning. In progress.
    6. What Is an Agent? Part II, Agents and Agentic Systems. Seven decades of agency scholarship synthesized into evaluation frameworks. Published.
    7. How to Design an Agent Ten architectural questions: triggers, perception, memory, planning, and escalation. Published.
    8. How to Govern an Agent Risk calibration, compliance stacks, and accountability for regulated industries. Published.
    9. Knowledge Graph Foundations Part III, Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web. RDF, RDFS/OWL, SKOS, SPARQL, SHACL, and JSON-LD with legal and financial examples. Planned.
    10. Knowledge Graph Operations with LLMs Ingestion pipelines, LLM-assisted curation, hybrid retrieval, and evaluation. Planned.

    Source: github.com

    OpenCC BY
  • An AI Policy Primer for Students

    Matthew Sag · 2026 · Textbook

    Web primer written for a law school course on the law and policy of AI. Part I covers what AI is, how large language models work, and developments since ChatGPT. Part II covers why regulate, benefits and harms, and how AI changes existing legal problems. No license stated.

    Contents (6 chapters)
    1. What Is AI? Definitions and History Part I, What AI Is and How We Got Here.
    2. How Large Language Models Work
    3. What Has Happened Since ChatGPT
    4. Benefits, Harms, and Uncertainty Part II, Why Regulate AI?
    5. How AI Changes Old Problems
    6. How to Think About Law and AI

    Source: matthewsag.com

    Free to read
  • Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Society, 2026 Supplement

    James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins · Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain, 2026 · Open casebook

    Supplement to the open IP casebook. Chapters on generative AI and copyright, fair use for model training, and patentability, built on primary sources.

    Open
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law: Mastering Generative and Agentic AI

    Michael D. Murray · Self-published, 2026 · Textbook

    Self-published text on generative and agentic AI in legal practice.

    Contents (9 chapters)
    1. Starting Your Relationship with Generative AI
    2. Where Did Generative AI Come From?
    3. Generative AI: How Does It Work?
    4. Generative AI Compared to Extractive Research Tools
    5. Interacting with Generative AI: Prompting, Priming, Context Engineering, and Role-Playing Techniques
    6. Getting to Ground Truth: GenAI Innovations and the Fight Against Hallucinations and Confabulations
    7. AI Agents in the Present and Future Practice of Law
    8. Developing Imagination and a Vision for AI in the Present and Future Practice of Law
    9. Generative and Agentic AI and the Rules of Ethics and Professional Responsibility

    Source: www.amazon.com

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  • Trade Secrets and Artificial Intelligence

    Luc Desaunettes-Barbero · H2O open casebook, 2026 · Open casebook

    Open casebook on trade secret law and AI, with a European focus.

    Contents (2 chapters)
    1. Legal Framework
    2. Case Law

    Source: opencasebook.org

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  • The Augmented Lawyer: AI and the Future of Legal Practice

    American Bar Association, 2026 · Practitioner book

    ABA title on AI and the future of legal practice.

    Contents (20 chapters)
    1. Introduction: The Augmented Lawyer
    2. The Ideal Lawyer Part I, The Architecture of Lawyering.
    3. The Modern Lawyer's Dilemma
    4. The Chipped Crucible: Law School
    5. Lawyers versus Machines
    6. What You Need to Know About AI Part II, A Field Guide to the Future of Legal Practice.
    7. How I Used AI to Transform My Legal Work
    8. AI in Law School: The Quiet Revolution
    9. Bias and the Black Box
    10. Redefine Legal Ethics for the AI Era
    11. A Note to Law Students: How to Approach AI
    12. How AI Can Democratize the Law Part III, Looking Ahead: Musings on AI.
    13. Can Nonlawyers (like Robots) Practice Law
    14. The Future Law Firm
    15. How Do Doctors Think About AI
    16. How Do We Regulate AI in the Legal System
    17. AI and the Future of Courts
    18. AI and the Environment: A Lawyer's Take
    19. Declaration of Principles for AI Use in the Legal Field
    20. Conclusion: A New Kind of Lawyer

    Source: www.americanbar.org

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  • Large Language Models for Lawyers

    Seth Chandler · University of Houston Law Center, 2026 · Syllabus

    Public course site and syllabus for a Fall 2026 hands-on course in using, evaluating, and building with AI systems. The schedule runs from prompting and context engineering through retrieval-augmented generation and hallucination control, agents and MCP, speech and coding, and data analysis, alongside a semester-long legal AI project.

    Free to read
  • Determann's Field Guide to Artificial Intelligence Law: International Corporate Compliance

    Lothar Determann · Edward Elgar, 2026, 240 pp. · Practitioner book

    Practical guide to AI compliance for organizations, second edition. Covers jurisdiction-specific legal requirements, governance and accountability, and identifying and prioritizing risks, with checklists, contract clauses, and sample protocols. Covers predictive, generative, and agentic AI.

    Contents (8 chapters)
    1. Artificial Intelligence Law Overview of AI law across jurisdictions, following orientation and key-terms sections.
    2. Starting an AI Law Compliance Program
    3. Drafting Documentation
    4. Assessing Impacts and Mitigating Risks
    5. AI Agreements Contract clauses for AI procurement and use.
    6. Protocols
    7. Maintaining and Auditing Compliance
    8. Checklist: AI Law Compliance
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  • A Short & Happy Guide to AI Governance and Regulation

    Kashyap Kompella and James M. Cooper · West Academic, Nov. 14, 2025 · Study aid

    Short plain-language guide to AI governance and regulation, a companion to the same authors' guide to AI for lawyers.

    Contents (11 chapters)
    1. AI Governance and Regulation in 30 Minutes or It's Free Ten harmful AI avatars from infringer to terminator; what governance and regulation are and the many forms regulation takes; where lawyers fit.
    2. AI Regulation: Concepts and Debates Privacy and data governance, fair use and scraping, open-source risk, industrial policy, Section 230, environmental impact, foundation models, antitrust, data sovereignty, national security; theories of regulation and regulatory capture.
    3. AI Ethics Transparency, fairness, oversight, expert committees, proxy factors, reliability; responsible AI standards from IBM, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, Apple, Walmart, Adobe, NVIDIA, Midjourney; lobbyists.
    4. International Bodies and Agencies OECD, World Economic Forum, GPAI, IEEE, UNESCO, the G7 Hiroshima process, treaties; Council of Europe, EU, African Union, OAS; a new international agency; national AI safety institutes.
    5. AI Regulation in the United States Statutes already on the books, the case for smart legislation, the second Trump administration.
    6. AI Regulation in the European Union History, the EU AI Act, implications for criminal and civil matters, employment, intellectual property.
    7. AI Regulation in the People's Republic of China The Cybersecurity Law, Beijing Principles, Data Security Law, deep synthesis rules, ethical review, risk assessment, algorithm registry, worker protections, global influence.
    8. National AI Regulation Around the Globe Country profiles including Australia, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, the UAE, and the UK; geopolitical ramifications.
    9. The Wise Counsel of Bar Associations ABA Formal Opinion 512 and Model Rules 1.1, 1.6, 1.4, 5.1, 5.3, 3.1, 3.3, 8.4, and 1.5; state bars including California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and DC; bar guidance abroad.
    10. A Call to Action A comparative approach to regulation; the AIM-AI governance framework with its four zones.
    11. Appendix B: The AIM-AI Governance Framework SAFE-AI, FAULT-AI, ABUSE-AI, and REBEL-AI zones and policy implementation.

    Source: www.vitalsource.com

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  • AI Law and Policy

    Margaret Hu · Aspen Publishing, Sept. 2025, 1110 pp. · Casebook

    Primary-source casebook surveying AI across privacy, cybersecurity, antidiscrimination, torts, intellectual property, and antitrust.

    Contents (28 chapters)
    1. Introduction
    2. Definitions
    3. Conceptualizing AI Governance
    4. Algorithmic Discrimination and Disparate Impact
    5. Transparency and Explanation
    6. Data Privacy and Autonomy
    7. Personhood and Citizenship
    8. Human Oversight and Generative AI
    9. Selected European Union (EU) Frameworks
    10. Selected International Frameworks
    11. U.S. Federal and State Law Developments
    12. Overlapping Legal Regimes: International and Domestic, Public and Private
    13. Expressive Freedoms
    14. Elections and Deepfakes
    15. Due Process and Equal Protection
    16. Criminal Procedure
    17. Worker Protections in Equal Employment and Disability Laws
    18. Consumer and Financial Protections
    19. Overview of AI Product Liability and Negligence: Examining the Intersection of Tort and Contract Law
    20. Privacy Torts and Defamation
    21. Data Protection, Cybersecurity, and Web Scraping
    22. Intellectual Property
    23. Securities and Antitrust
    24. Impact on Legal Practice and Legal Systems
    25. AI Ethics and Audits
    26. Remedies and Preventive Measures
    27. National Security
    28. Humanity and Sustainability

    Source: aspenpublishing.com

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  • Artificial Intelligence Law and Regulation in a Nutshell

    Jon M. Garon · West Academic, May 2025 · Study aid

    Survey of AI regulation. Includes chapters on organizational strategy that distinguish developer and deployer obligations.

    Contents (9 chapters)
    1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, generative AI; illustrative uses in healthcare, product design, autonomous vehicles, chatbots and agents, law firms.
    2. Societal Concerns About the Implementation of AI Risk framework, labor and workforce disruption, the digital divide, the Rite Aid case, algorithmic discrimination, psychographic targeting, misinformation and elections.
    3. The Evolving Legal Framework Federal executive orders, state approaches including deepfakes, publicity rights, bias mitigation, and biometrics; the EU AI Act, GDPR, DMA, and DSA; China, the UK, Canada.
    4. The Relation of Intellectual Property to Generative AI Patent inventorship and prior art; copyright authorship, training-set liability, and substantially similar output; publicity rights, trade secrets, trademark, enforcement.
    5. Tort-Based Liability for AI Development and Deployment Defamation from AI output and Section 230; informational privacy; health information; products liability; use in legal briefs and law firm operations.
    6. Transactional Considerations for AI Development and Deployment The NIST AI Risk Management Framework, deployer risk, and contract terms on territory, ownership, liability, and personal data.
    7. The Use of AI in Law Enforcement and National Security Predictive policing and racial disparities; constitutional limits from Olmstead to Katz, the third-party doctrine, data surveillance.
    8. AI in Armed Conflict Signals intelligence, lethal autonomous weapons systems, humans in the loop.
    9. Conclusion: Considerations for the Law and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Framing rather than defining AI, sources of regulation, transparency and explainability, consumer protections, business adoption, existential considerations.

    Source: www.vitalsource.com

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  • Hot Topics in Digital Tech

    Christopher Bavitz · H2O open casebook, 2025 · Syllabus

    Readings for a 1L reading group on current digital technology issues, Fall 2025. An earlier version, Regulating Digital Technology, ran in Fall 2020.

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  • Think Like a Lawyer about Artificial Intelligence

    Theodore F. Claypoole · American Bar Association, 2025 · Practitioner book

    Groups AI systems by what they do and works through the legal impact of each category.

    Contents (12 chapters)
    1. What Is Artificial Intelligence?
    2. Why Would Lawyers Need to Think Differently about AI?
    3. Lawyers Should Think of AI in Functional Categories
    4. Decision-Making AI
    5. Generative AI
    6. Personal Identification AI
    7. Strategizing AI: AI Analytics and Safety
    8. Physical Action AI
    9. Military AI
    10. Should AI Receive Legal Rights?
    11. Developing Policy for Novel AI Problems
    12. Final Note: Lawyers Can Use Generative AI in Compliance with Their Professional Rules

    Source: www.americanbar.org

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  • PLI Course Handbooks on AI

    Practising Law Institute, 2025 · Practitioner book

    Course handbooks accompanying PLI programs, including Artificial Intelligence Law 2026, Artificial Intelligence and Law Practice 2025, and Artificial Intelligence and Privacy 2025. Heavy on primary sources and program materials.

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  • Arkfeld on Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law

    Michael R. Arkfeld · LexisNexis, 2025 · Treatise

    Practitioner treatise on AI in legal practice, available on Lexis+.

    Contents (9 chapters)
    1. AI in Legal Practice: An Introduction
    2. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Components, Generative AI, and General AI
    3. Impact of AI on Ethics, Competency, and Confidentiality
    4. AI Applications Transforming Law Firms and Legal Organizations
    5. Integrating AI into Discovery and Litigation in Civil Cases
    6. Adequacy Determination, Validation, and Certification of Searches
    7. AI for Litigation and the Courtroom
    8. Planning for eDiscovery and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
    9. Summary and Conclusion: Embracing the AI Revolution in Legal Practice and Its Future

    Source: store.lexisnexis.com

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  • A Short & Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers

    James M. Cooper and Kashyap Kompella · West Academic, Nov. 2024 · Study aid

    Short plain-language introduction to AI for lawyers. Predates agentic tools.

    Contents (11 chapters)
    1. Artificial Intelligence in 30 Minutes or It Is Free Seeing like an algorithm; AI and legal practice.
    2. Key Concepts of Artificial Intelligence and Its Use in Legal Practice Origins, popular culture, legal definitions; algorithms, automated decision-making, disparate impact and treatment, bias, predictive policing, risk assessments, transparency, human in the loop, legal analytics, legal tech.
    3. Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law Pre-trial, post-trial, and probation uses; predictive policing; gunshot detection; benefits and challenges; State v. Loomis; smart regulation.
    4. Artificial Intelligence and Commercial Law Insurance, consumer finance, banking, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust, securities, contracts, arbitration, corporate governance, international trade.
    5. Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Law Machine inventorship and patents; copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets; generative AI and copyright.
    6. Artificial Intelligence and Employment Law AI in employment decisions, algorithmic wage discrimination, OSHA and workplace robots, job losses across blue-collar, white-collar, and legal work.
    7. Artificial Intelligence and Consumer Law Tort law, healthcare, facial recognition and the Rite Aid FTC action, voice recognition.
    8. The Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Responsible AI principles from technology companies, law firms, and bar associations; regulation in the EU, US, and China; geopolitics.
    9. A Call to Action Legal education, litigation as guidance, upskilling judges and legislators, access to justice.
    10. Appendix 1: Glossary and Legal Technology Applications
    11. Appendix 2: Artificial Intelligence as per Hollywood Fifteen films from 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Creator.

    Source: www.vitalsource.com

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  • AI and Law: Unleashing and Restraining AI

    Kevin Frazier · H2O open casebook, 2024 · Open casebook

    Open casebook covering consumer protection, competition, and corporate law questions raised by AI.

    Contents (6 chapters)
    1. Introduction to AI
    2. Introduction to AI Tools and AI Agents
    3. Consumer Protection Privacy; state UDAAP statutes; the FTC, SEC, and CFPB.
    4. Competition AI and the supply chain; mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships; accelerating innovation; an enforcement survey.
    5. Content Moderation The basics, content moderation in practice, elections.
    6. Corporate Governance

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  • Case Studies in Public & Private Policy Challenges of Artificial Intelligence

    Jonathan Zittrain · H2O open casebook, 2024 · Syllabus

    Case-study collection on policy challenges of AI in public and private settings.

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  • Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity

    April G. Dawson · Aspen Publishing, Aug. 2023 · Textbook

    Student-facing coursebook on responsible AI use and academic integrity.

    Contents (4 chapters)
    1. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Rule-based systems and expert systems; machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing; large language models from OpenAI, Google, and Meta; ethical and responsible AI.
    2. Fundamentals of Academic Integrity Why integrity matters; academic integrity and the ethics of the legal profession; types and causes of academic dishonesty; academic, professional, and personal consequences; Mata v. Avianca and the North Carolina election fraud hearing as case studies.
    3. Best Practices for Maintaining Academic Integrity in the Age of AI Whether to use or ban generative AI; institutional rules; privacy implications of ChatGPT; appropriate uses for terminology, complex topics, exams, research and writing; false information and hallucinations; courts requiring certification of cited cases.
    4. Use of Generative AI in the Legal Profession Leading legal generative AI products including CoCounsel, Lexis+ AI, Harvey, Spellbook; the profession's cautious response; access to justice.

    Source: aspenpublishing.com

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  • AI For Lawyers: How Artificial Intelligence is Adding Value, Amplifying Expertise, and Transforming Careers

    Noah Waisberg and Alexander Hudek · Wiley, 2021 · Practitioner bookPre-generative AI

    Practitioner overview of AI in legal work by the founders of Kira Systems. Predates generative AI.

    Contents (13 chapters)
    1. How Lawyers Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI Part I, The Point: AI in law is here to stay.
    2. #DoMoreLaw: How Doing Work More Efficiently Can Create More Legal Work, Not Less
    3. The Small Law Mindset: Bringing Biglaw Capabilities to Smaller Firms
    4. AI: A Modern Job Creator: The New Legal Mindsets, Skill Sets, and Jobs That Are in Demand
    5. Amplifying Legal Expertise: From One-to-One Advisory to Scalable, One-to-Many Service Delivery
    6. The Ethics of Lawyers Using, and Not Using, AI
    7. eDiscovery: What It Is and How AI Is Continuing to Transform How It Works for You Part II, The Proof. By Dera Nevin.
    8. AI in Legal Research: How AI Is Providing Everyone Access to Information and Leveling the Playing Field By Jake Heller, Laura Safdie, and Pablo Arredondo of Casetext.
    9. Litigation Analytics: The Emergence of Analytics in Law and Why It's Now Dangerous to Practice Litigation Without Data By Anthony Niblett of Blue J Legal.
    10. Contract Review to Contract Capital: How Ubiquitous Access to Contract Analysis Software Will Transform Legal and Business Practices
    11. Expert Systems: Self-Service Law and the Automation of Legal Question-Answering By Michael Mills of Neota Logic.
    12. The AI Adoption Framework: Understanding the Adoption Path That Will Help You Get Ahead and Build the Practice of the Future Part III, The Plan.
    13. Conclusion

    Source: www.wiley.com

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  • Advanced Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence

    Woodrow Barfield and Ugo Pagallo · Edward Elgar, 2020 · MonographPre-generative AI

    Short scholarly introduction to law and AI. No second edition as of August 2026.

    Contents (12 chapters)
    1. Introduction to Law and Artificial Intelligence
    2. Definitions, Actors, Concepts
    3. Human Rights Considerations
    4. Constitutional Law Issues
    5. Legal Personality and Artificial Intelligence
    6. Issues of Data Protection
    7. Tort Law Approaches
    8. Criminal Law
    9. Copyright Law
    10. Patent Law
    11. Business Law, Antitrust, and Trade Secrets
    12. Looking Ahead: Towards a Law of Artificial Intelligence

    Source: www.e-elgar.com

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  • CEIPI Advanced Training on Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property, 2nd ed. (2019 syllabus)

    CEIPI, University of Strasbourg · H2O open casebook, 2019 · Open casebookPre-generative AI

    Syllabus and readings from a European training program on AI and intellectual property.

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  • Data-Driven Law: Data Analytics and the New Legal Services

    Edward J. Walters, ed. · Routledge, 2019 · Practitioner bookPre-generative AI

    Edited volume on data analytics in legal services.

    Contents (8 chapters)
    1. Introduction: Data Analytics for Law Firms: Using Data for Smarter Legal Services
    2. Mining Legal Data: Collecting and Analyzing 21st Century Gold
    3. Deconstructing Contracts: Analytics and Contract Standards
    4. The Big Move Toward Big Data in Employment
    5. Computational Law, Symbolic Discourse, and the AI Constitution
    6. Quantifying Success: Using Data Science to Measure the Accuracy of Technology-Assisted Review in Electronic Discovery
    7. Quantifying the Quality of Legal Services: Data Science Lessons
    8. Uncovering Big Bias with Big Data: An Introduction to Linear Regression

    Source: www.routledge.com

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  • The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence

    Jonathan Zittrain and Joi Ito · H2O open casebook, 2018 · SyllabusPre-generative AI

    Readings from the 2018 Harvard and MIT course on AI ethics and governance. Predates generative AI.

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  • Artificial Intelligence Law

    Margot E. Kaminski, Paul Ohm, and Andrew D. Selbst · Foundation Press, forthcoming, 985 pp. · Casebook

    Doctrinal casebook built primarily on primary sources. Written at the JD level. Faculty can request draft proofs from the publisher ahead of publication. The contents listed here are from the Fall 2023 draft table of contents and may change in the published edition.

    Contents (24 chapters)
    1. Overview, Themes, and Vocabulary Part I, Preliminaries.
    2. Machine Learning 101: Good Old Fashioned AI
    3. Tort, Fault, Liability, and Product Safety: Who Is Liable When Self-Driving Cars Collide? Part II, How AI disrupts traditional legal concepts. Tort liability for users and owners; products liability for manufacturers.
    4. Competing Definitions of Algorithmic Bias and Fairness
    5. Bias and Discrimination: Algorithms in Employment Under Title VII
    6. Technological Due Process: Government Use of Algorithms in Benefits Administration
    7. Algorithmic Crime Prediction and Detection Individualized suspicion; the analogy to narcotics dog sniffs under the Fourth Amendment.
    8. Facial Recognition and the First Amendment
    9. Privacy and Big Data The power of inference; inferring identity and sensitive information; using data about some people to build models that control others.
    10. Generative AI Part III, AI in context. Technical primers on neural networks and large language models.
    11. Liability of LLM Creators for Speech Harms Defamation and other speech-related harms.
    12. Generative AI and Copyright Law AI and authorship; fair use and model training.
    13. Algorithms and Financial Regulation
    14. Medical Malpractice Standards of care and informed consent.
    15. Prompt Engineering
    16. Governance Strategies Part IV, Regulating AI. Pauses and bans; agenda setting and trustworthy AI; binary governance, managerialism, and neoliberalism.
    17. Consumer Protection and Data Protection Approaches The FTC; the GDPR; enforcing consumer protection, bias, and data protection laws.
    18. Risk-Based Regulation and Impact Assessments Risk regulation generally; the EU AI Act; risk assessment frameworks; algorithmic audits.
    19. The Right to a Human-in-the-Loop Laws requiring a human in the loop; justifications and efficacy.
    20. The Right to Explanation Licensure and justification.
    21. AI in China Chinese AI regulation, the social credit system, US export restrictions.
    22. AI and the International Law of Human Rights
    23. AGI, Alignment, and Safety Analogies to other existential threats.
    24. Coda

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  • Artificial Intelligence: Law and Litigation

    LexisNexis · Treatise

    Practitioner treatise on AI-related litigation organized by cause of action, with cases collected by industry sector in each chapter. Available on Lexis+.

    Contents (15 chapters)
    1. What Is “Artificial Intelligence”? Human and artificial neural networks.
    2. Antitrust Dual-sided markets, mergers, standard setting, cases by industry sector.
    3. Communications Decency Act Whether Section 230 applies to AI defendants.
    4. Contracts
    5. Copyright Copyrightable AI data under Section 102, fair use under Section 107, experts, Feist.
    6. Employment Non-compete and non-disclosure agreements, fiduciary duty.
    7. Immigration
    8. Patent Litigation Patentable subject matter, claim construction, written description and enablement, the Federal Circuit.
    9. Privacy Fourth Amendment, Illinois BIPA, California Invasion of Privacy Act, Washington, federal litigation.
    10. Products Liability Whether AI is a product or a service; automotive AI.
    11. Section 1983
    12. Securities SEC actions against AI defendants.
    13. Trade Secrets
    14. Trademark The Lanham Act and likelihood of confusion.
    15. Emotional Intelligence Whether DABUS is an inventor; human emotions in AI litigation.

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