This presentation addresses the need to inform students of the ethical and privacy risks of using AI in the law school classroom and moderates a discussion on how to teach the students to use the products as safely as possible. The scope of AI-involved coursework may include LLMs in research and writing, experiential courses and AI assistance, as well as substantive courses that address the impact of AI on society.
Jennifer Brobst, Associate Professor of Law, University of Memphis Cecil Humphreys School of LawProfessor Jennifer Brobst joined the faculty in 2022 as an Assistant Professor. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024. Her scholarly work primarily focuses on the intersection of health law and criminal law, as well as legal approaches to privacy, liberty interests, and the impact of science and technology. She serves as the author of the treatise North Carolina Admissibility of Evidence, and from 2019 – 2023 was the author of Criminal Offenses and Defenses in Alabama, both part of the state-practice treatise series from Thomson Reuters and available on Westlaw. Her article entitled Miranda in Mental Health was designated as one of the All Time Top Papers in Mental Health and Crime by the Social Science Research Network for the years 1997 – 2018. In 2018, while at Southern Illinois University School of Law, she was awarded the faculty’s Outstanding Scholar Award. Since 2020, she has extended her research interests to applications in international and national space law, including virtual presentations at international conferences in India and New Zealand and several book chapters. For a number of years, Professor Brobst has engaged in service by providing training to interdisciplinary professionals, including expert witness training on medical and forensic scientific evidence, ethics training for information technology and business professionals, and to attorneys and judges on managing secondary traumatic stress in at-risk areas of legal practice. Her early practice experience is in litigation, both civil and criminal, in cases involving interpersonal violence. She is a former Chair of the Balance in Legal Education Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS), which promotes wellness in the profession. In North Carolina, she was appointed by Governor Perdue to serve on the North Carolina Commission Against Domestic Violence, and by Speaker Hackney to serve on the North Carolina Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disability, and Substance Abuse, where she served as Vice Chair of the Commission and Chair of the Rules Committee. She has continued to serve as one of the inaugural members of the Advisory Council to the National Crime Victim Law Institute in Portland, Oregon since 2014.
