20 October 2026
Knowledge Intermediaries
AI is being widely integrated into legal practice and academic research. Early concerns about such tools were focused on the outputs: hallucinated citations, fabricated case law, overall sloppiness among attorneys and researchers submitting AI-generated work without review. These problems have not disappeared but have received enough attention to warrant continuous improvement of predictive and generative tools for accuracy. However, the fabricated footnotes distract from the fact that we are substituting the use of these tools for the manual processes of conducting our own research, exercising critical thinking, and engaging in reasoned judgment processes. Continue reading >>
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