LLS Impact
AI, the Law, and the New Rules of Power
Note from the Dean
LMU Loyola Law School is excited to announce the inaugural issue of LLS Impact, a semiannual deep dive on legal issues of critical importance to this moment. This first issue tackles one of the most pressing issues of our time: the global and generational disruption of artificial intelligence. The pace of innovation, combined with AI’s growing influence on how laws are interpreted, enforced, or even created, presents new challenges and opportunities for our legal system and the people it serves. This raises profound questions about ethics, equity, access, and justice.
Our Jesuit mission compels us to engage these questions: to support the formation of lawyers who are not only well-prepared, but also ethically grounded; to encourage research and advocacy that centers the lives and experiences of those most impacted by this disruption; and to teach our students to use creative thought and deliberate action to shape the world they want to see.
It’s in that spirit that we launch LLS Impact – to take you on a journey with the faculty, alumni, and students who are wrestling with the hardest questions of our time in their research, practice, and classrooms. I hope it provokes thought, sparks conversation, and deepens your connection to the work being done here at LLS.
Brietta Clark
Fritz B. Burns Dean
Featured Insights
Who Decides What AI Decides
Who should govern the digital world, and by what authority? In a world of near-ubiquitous algorithms, LLS professor Andrew Keane Woods has built a formidable body of scholarship around these crucial questions.
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Governing the "Wild West" of AI
Awash in private money and charismatic founders, tech startups are putting corporate governance to the test. Jennifer Fan suggests ways to bring law to the frontier.
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Red Teaming AI in the Legal System
Colin Doyle focuses on how artificial intelligence and data-driven tools are driving new conversations about the law.
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AI and Unintended Consequences
Ángel Díaz considers the role of technology and obtuse terms in perpetuating inequality and racism.
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Training Lawyers for an AI World
At LMU Loyola Law School, students aren’t just learning the law – they're preparing to shape it in an era defined by artificial intelligence.
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Generative AI in Legal Practice Confronts Real-World Peril and Promise
Professors Rebecca Delfino and Yan Slavinskiy are teaching the new Generative AI in the Law course to prepare the next generation of lawyers.
Read MoreThe Lawyer Futurist
LLS alum Charles Lew is sounding the alarm about AI and the legal profession, including the potential of utopian wonders.
As for his alma mater, Lew says LLS prepared him well for the times we’re in, and he values the role he has played in helping it stay ahead of the curve. “I would absolutely always give credit to Loyola,” he says, taking note of the growing cadre of LLS faculty scholars researching and writing in the space. “Not only did they push and promote the technology aspects of law even back in 2000, but it was always done so with the overriding theme of giving back as lawyers."
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