Spring 2024

5397 Large Language Models for Lawyers - CHANDLER- 23332

Professor(s): Seth Chandler (FACULTY)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Law And Society/ Interdisciplinary
Intellectual Property and Information Law

Time: 6:00p-7:30p MW Location:

Course Outline: Introducing an exciting new course on how large language models are transforming the legal field. This hands-on course will provide students with practical experience using AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance legal research, drafting, and litigation skills. Through workshops and simulations, students will learn how to leverage these powerful models to work more efficiently and creatively both in law school and legal practice. The course covers the leading AI applications in legal tech, discusses ethical considerations, and teaches the basic math and programming concepts behind neural networks. The course culminates in final projects where students demonstrate mastery of legal AI. With expert guest lecturers and a focus on real-world applications, this course will equip students to be at the forefront of the AI revolution in law.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes: (Synchronous Online) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. After student registration opens, there may be instruction mode changes to this course up through two weeks before the first day of classes for the term, but notice of such changes will be sent to then-registered students. Contrary to the UH information, some student materials may not be available online, such as an assigned casebook. A physical classroom may be assigned for this course to give students a location in the Law Center to join the virtual class sessions. If the course has a final examination, the final and any other assessment for the course, such as a mid-term exam, will be conducted without the need to physically come to the Law Center, such as, for example, via the EBB portal as a take home exam or under remote proctoring.

Prerequisites:

First Day Assignments:

Final Exam Schedule: 5/8/2024 6-9

This course will have:
Exam:
Paper:

Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No

Experiential Course Type: No

Bar Course: No

DistanceEd ABA: Yes

Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)

Course Materials

Special Case

Students will need to purchase a monthly subscription to ChatGPT ($20/month) and to Claude 2 ($20/month)
Total cost should be $160.