A few weeks ago I finally made a personal website, and I’ve been gradually putting things up there. It started as something I made mostly for myself (kind of like how I’m the primary user for most of my favorite LibGuides I’ve created). But there are now two resources that I think will be useful to readers of this blog, whether you’re teaching an AI or legal tech course, helping faculty who are, or just looking for something to read or circulate to colleagues.
The AI in legal practice textbook explorer
Books and teaching resources on AI in legal practice collects 47 textbooks, casebooks, study aids, practitioner books, and open materials. For most of them, I’ve added the table of contents with each chapter tagged by topic. That means you can pick a topic, like prompting or hallucinations, and get the specific chapters that cover it, not just a list of titles.
You can also filter by how you’d get the book. If I’m just assigning a chapter, I usually want only the open, free, and typically licensed titles (several are in the West Academic Study Aids package many academic law libraries already subscribe to). Or you can go the other way and look for one book to purchase that covers everything you want. You can combine topics, search chapter titles, and share a link to exactly the filtered view you’re looking at.
My 21st Century Lawyering reading list
I’ve also posted the full reading list from my AI/legal tech class this spring, class by class. It covers 26 classes and 100+ readings, from LLM basics to vibe-coding to access to justice, with required and optional readings marked and the time estimates I gave students. These are fast-moving topics, so some of it may need updating, but most of it should still be relevant in a year (I hope!).
Feel free to borrow anything. And if you know of a book I’ve missed, or a reading that worked well in your class, please let me know. I plan on keeping the book list updated, and posting new class reading lists in future years.
