Teach
Disseminating what we learn and build — to students, faculty, judges, and the profession.
The Lab’s teach pillar takes findings and tools out to the people who can use them: law students through course tools and virtual TAs; law faculty through assessment innovations and pedagogy resources; judges and chambers through use-case research and training; and (next phase) small and medium law firms — an underserved segment of the profession.
Direct teaching, training programs, public-facing toolkit publications, and the Lab’s faculty-pedagogy support function all live here. Many Lab projects span multiple pillars; teach is where most of the Lab’s work eventually surfaces.
Projects in Teach
Workstreams the Lab is running under the teach pillar — including projects that span multiple pillars.
Course Materials
An extraction primitive: turn the messy artifacts of a real course — PDFs, slide decks, casebook excerpts, syllabi — into clean structured text that downstream tools can use.
Casebook Builder
Curate and edit cases into custom course casebooks — pilot deployment with Ted Ruger's Spring 2027 Legislation class.
Course-Website Tooling
Generalize the Legal Education at Model Velocity microsite into reusable templates the Lab and others can deploy quickly.
Essay Creator
Generate assessment-grade essay exams — issue spotters and fact-pattern questions — with rubrics built for AI-assisted grading.
MCQ Creator
Generate law-school multiple-choice questions with built-in distractor validation and psychometric quality controls.
Heron — Virtual TA Slackbot
Pedagogy infrastructure: a Slackbot that serves as a 24/7 virtual teaching assistant for course use.
Newsletter Automation
Build the pipeline that produces the Lab's monthly AI newsletter — automated collection, editorial workflow, Substack distribution.
Training Materials
Produce a complete AI training package for legal-education audiences — and pitch a cross-Penn version with collaborators.
Judiciary — Teaching the Bench
Working with the federal judiciary on the practical use of AI tools — through training, research, chambers-facing tools, and structured feedback.
Legal Education at Model Velocity
A four-module microsite on legal education in the era of AI, with a cloned-voice podcast, NotebookLM audio overview, and PDF summaries. Shipped April 2026.