Her article appears in Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing
CARLISLE, PA—Professor Julie Tedjeske Crane has an article in the current issue of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing explaining her philosophy of teaching about artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal research. You can find her article in the current issue by clicking here.
It presents a framework for teaching law students to be the “human in the loop” in generative AI-assisted legal research, identifying the researcher’s roles as strategist, analyst, and decision-maker. Crane also shares two exercises applying this framework. She presented on this topic at CALIcon.
Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing is a peer-reviewed Thomson Reuters journal devoted to practice-oriented scholarship on legal research and writing. CALIcon is the annual conference of the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, a nonprofit consortium of law schools. It is a unique forum that brings together law faculty, law librarians, instructional designers, and law school IT staff.
Julie Tedjeske Crane is a Reference Librarian and Professor of Legal Research at the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Law Library at Penn State Dickinson Law. In addition to her library-related responsibilities, Professor Crane teaches legal research in the first-year curriculum and upper-level courses.
Professor Crane has worked as an attorney for over 15 years, practicing general civil litigation. She has also been a librarian at La Roche College, the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, and Chicago-Kent School of Law.
