Toolkit on AI Teaching Lab at Penn Carey Law

Best Practices for AI in Legal Education

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

The Lab’s flagship faculty-facing document. Organizes student and faculty AI use cases by activity type and academic setting; covers AI training pipelines, efficacy assessment, academic standards, ethical considerations, access and equity, and a glossary of terms.

AI Syllabus Guide

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Drop-in syllabus language for faculty across four policy stances — (1) no written assignments, (2) limited AI use, (3) limited AI use with attribution and a written AI-use statement (Professor Cathie Struve’s Fall 2025 seminar version), and (4) complete prohibition. Faculty are expected to copy these blocks, adapt where noted, and adjust to course specifics.

Legal AI Tool Guide

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400

A categorized overview of the legal AI landscape — seven domain-specific tool families plus the major general-purpose models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). Built for faculty who want to understand what’s out there without having to track every product launch.

Prompt Guide & Scenarios

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0400

The Lab’s oldest publication and still in active use. The CRAFTED framework was first written in August 2023 for ChatGPT 3.5 / GPT-4 and CoCounsel; the principles apply across modern general-purpose AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude) and legal-specific tools.

Resource Menu

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400

The Toolkit’s landing page for Penn Carey Law faculty — a single document that links to the four core publications and serves as the Lab’s faculty-facing entry point.

Most of these documents are revised continuously. Check back for new versions.

1L Guidance on ChatGPT Edu Use

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Written for incoming 1Ls. Covers how LLMs work, what they do well, what they fail at, the “human-AI-human sandwich” workflow that keeps the student in the loop, and concrete prompting tips.

AI Tips for 1Ls

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

Talking points for orientation sessions and 1L AI-introduction events. Designed as a presenter’s guide for in-person delivery rather than independent reading. Pairs with the longer 1L Guidance on ChatGPT Edu Use.

AI Resources at Penn

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400

A directory of AI resources across Penn Carey Law and the broader University of Pennsylvania — tool access points, training programs, academic policies, and the support contacts who handle each. Updated as Penn’s AI offerings expand. The owning units (PCL ITS, Biddle Law Library, Penn ISC, the centers and initiatives below) are authoritative for current eligibility and terms; links go to those pages.

Faculty Guide to AI Tools

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

A practical onboarding guide for faculty getting started with general-purpose AI tools — how to set up ChatGPT and Claude accounts, which data-privacy settings to check before uploading anything sensitive, and a starter set of research use cases.

Teaching with Generative AI — Demos

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

The example prompts used in Polk’s Fall 2024 Faculty Retreat session on teaching with generative AI. Each prompt is reproduced as it was given to the model so you can adapt the wording to your own course.

Creating a Virtual TA with Custom GPTs

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

A walkthrough for faculty who want to build a course-specific virtual teaching assistant using OpenAI’s Custom GPTs. The same conceptual moves apply to Claude Projects (Anthropic) or Gemini Gems (Google), but the specific UI flows differ — adapt the steps below to your platform. The example throughout is the Lab’s IP TA — a study-and-review assistant for Intro to Intellectual Property at Penn Carey Law.

AI Use Policy Templates

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Professor Struve’s attribution-and-disclosure model for generative AI in a writing-intensive seminar, with sample AI-use disclosures students can adapt to specific use cases. The framework treats AI as a tool that requires attribution and process transparency.