Essay Creator

Essay Creator is the Lab’s productized version of the law-essay-generator skill: a faculty-facing tool for drafting law-school essay exam questions — issue spotters and fact-pattern questions — that meet assessment-science quality standards out of the box.

It produces the question, the model answer, and the rubric in a single pass, with the rubric designed for AI-assisted grading on the back end.

What we’re doing

• Productize law-essay-generator into a faculty-facing tool: web interface, course presets, support for the major doctrinal courses (IP, contracts, torts, con law, civ pro).
• Enforce the assessment-science controls the underlying skill is built on: SOLO taxonomy layering, construct alignment to the course’s actual coverage, distractor logic for issue-spotter sub-questions.
• Output rubrics that drop directly into Exam Grader — closing the loop between generation and grading.
• Build a small library of vetted exam patterns from participating faculty, so each new question starts from a known-good template rather than from scratch.

Why this matters

The slow, painful part of law-school exam writing is producing fact patterns that surface the right issues at the right level of difficulty without leaking the answer. A tool that gets faculty to a credible first draft — with a rubric and a model answer attached — moves the bottleneck back to where it belongs: judgment, not drafting.

Status

Active. The underlying law-essay-generator skill is in production use; productization as a Lab project is the next step.