GenAI and the End of Everything? Not So Fast: Lessons from a Stress-Tested 1L Legal Research Course
The hype says GenAI is coming for legal research. We put that claim to the test - and our students did too.
This presentation reports on a 1L legal research course designed from scratch to integrate technology fluency and GenAI across major assignments. Rather than avoiding GenAI or treating it as a threat, we built a curriculum that requires students to use it, evaluate it and reflect on it in writing. The results were not what the doomsayers predict.