Wednesday, June 10, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET/12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CT/11:00 AM – 12:00 PM MT/10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PT
Section on Technology, Law and Legal Education
What does it look like when a law school builds AI capacity as a team sport? This webinar moves past the usual ‘AI is coming’ alarm and into the operational details: How do you design faculty development that meets colleagues where they are? What governance structures work? How do you share resources without creating bottlenecks? We draw on direct experience with the LawProfs AI Sandbox, university-wide AI committee service, and law school AI committee leadership to offer transferable frameworks for responsible institutional adoption, no computer science degree required.
Tracy L. M. Norton, Assistant Professor of Law, Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Tracy L. M. Norton is an Assistant Professor of Law at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where she holds the Erick Vincent Anderson Professorship and Professional Responsibility Professorship #6. She teaches Legal Analysis & Writing as well as Professional Responsibility and is the author of Lawyering in the AI Era, an open-access textbook on AI integration in first-year legal analysis and writing. Her scholarship addresses professional responsibility, lawyering skills pedagogy, and the frameworks lawyers need to use AI competently and ethically. Professor Norton serves on the LSU Faculty Senate AI Committee, working across disciplines to shape institutional policy on responsible AI adoption. She co-developed the LawProfs AI Sandbox with Professor Tanner and Dr. William Monroe, also of LSU Law, and regularly leads CLEs and workshops for judges and practicing lawyers on AI literacy and implementation. In 2026, she received the AALS Section on Technology, Law, and Legal Education Tech Mentorship Award for her work supporting colleagues in integrating technology into legal education. Professors Norton and Tanner have collaborated on presentations, frameworks, and scholarship addressing AI in legal education since early 2023. Their co-authored article, Strengthening Critical Thinking in Law Students Using the Rhetorical Situation with AI Prompt Architecture, examines how AI tools can strengthen rather than undermine students’ analytical thinking, is forthcoming in Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.
Susan Tanner, Associate Professor of Law, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Susan Tanner is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. She holds a J.D. from Indiana University Maurer School of Law and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University, where her work included privacy, technology, and civil liberties. Her scholarship and teaching focus on artificial intelligence, legal education, privacy, and law and rhetoric, with particular attention to how language and emerging technologies shape legal doctrine and professional practice. Professor Tanner serves on university and law school AI initiatives and has been deeply involved in helping faculty think through the pedagogical, ethical, and institutional implications of generative AI. She also co-developed and maintains the LawProfs AI Sandbox, a resource supporting legal educators as they experiment thoughtfully with AI in teaching, learning, and administration.
