CSU Law is preparing lawyers for a profession that is changing rapidly. Our approach to AI is practical, responsible, and grounded in what clients and employers actually need: lawyers who can use AI tools effectively, advise on AI-related legal issues, and exercise sound professional judgment in an AI-shaped legal market.
Students
AI fluency is becoming a baseline expectation in legal practice. CSU Law gives students the tools, training, and experiences to meet that expectation and build the judgment needed to use AI responsibly.
Through our AI programming, students can access professional certificate training in generative AI through our AltaClaro partnership, engage with practitioners on the AI Advisory Council through events and speaker programming, and build knowledge in AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and related areas through coursework and co-curricular opportunities.
Students should watch for upcoming events, training cohorts, and speaker programming and connect with faculty to identify opportunities that fit their academic and professional goals.
Employers and Partners
CSU Law is aligning its curriculum, training, and co-curricular programming with what the legal market needs now and next. Our AI Advisory Council, made up of practitioners, in-house counsel, legal technologists, and academics, helps ensure that alignment is practical and employer-informed.
We are preparing graduates to work in an AI-enabled legal environment with a foundation in responsible use, professional judgment, and the legal frameworks that govern AI. Employers and community partners help us understand changing workflows, emerging risks, and the skills new lawyers need to contribute effectively.
AI Advisory Council
CSU Law’s AI Advisory Council brings together leaders from law firms, in-house legal departments, legal technology, academia, and the law school to help guide CSU Law’s broader AI strategy.
Council members help ensure our approach to AI education is practical, responsible, current, and employer-informed, with expertise spanning AI governance and risk management, privacy and cybersecurity, intellectual property and technology transactions, legal operations, and emerging issues affecting legal practice.
The Council’s role goes beyond advising. Members engage directly with faculty and students through programming, events, and working groups focused on how AI is changing legal practice and what that means for how we prepare future lawyers.
FACULTY AND STAFF
CSU Law faculty and staff are actively exploring how AI is reshaping legal education, scholarship, and operations. From curriculum integration and legal research to assessment, professional responsibility, and practice management, our community is engaged in this work and sharing ideas across the law school.
This is an evolving conversation. Co-Interim Dean Brian E. Ray leads CSU Law’s AI strategy and works with faculty, staff, and members of the AI Advisory Council to identify emerging issues, share effective practices, and connect legal education with developments in practice.
COURSES AND Training
CSU Law offers coursework and professional training that allow students to explore artificial intelligence from multiple perspectives, including practical legal use, technology regulation, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and professional responsibility.
AltaClaro Generative AI Professional Training
Through a partnership with AltaClaro, CSU Law offers every student access to generative AI training and a skills certificate designed for legal professionals.
The program emphasizes responsible AI use, verification, professional judgment, confidentiality-aware workflows, and ethical risk management so that students develop practical skills while understanding the responsibilities that accompany AI-assisted legal work.
Artificial Intelligence & Law
Students may also study the legal and policy issues surrounding artificial intelligence through CSU Law coursework examining AI regulation, professional responsibility, intellectual property, privacy, and the changing role of technology in legal practice.
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy
CSU Law’s cybersecurity and data privacy curriculum and certificate opportunities provide additional depth in areas closely connected to AI governance, including privacy, cybersecurity, technology regulation, compliance, and enterprise risk.
Additional AI-related courses, workshops, and co-curricular opportunities will continue to develop as technology and legal practice evolve.
Students should consult the current course catalogue and semester course schedule for current offerings and availability.
events and conversations
CSU Law brings together faculty, students, practitioners, and other leaders to examine how artificial intelligence is changing legal practice, professional responsibility, business operations, regulation, and the delivery of legal services.
Upcoming Program
AI & the Attorney-Client Privilege: A Dawn of a New Era?
October 12, 2026 | 5:00 p.m.
As courts confront the growing use—and misuse—of artificial intelligence in legal practice, new questions are emerging about whether information gathered through AI tools may be protected by the attorney-client privilege or attorney work-product doctrine. Courts have begun reaching different conclusions, leaving important questions unresolved.
CSU Law faculty with expertise in legal ethics, technology, cybersecurity, and litigation will examine these developing issues and their implications for lawyers using AI in practice.
The program will feature Doron M. Kalir, Cory L. Scott, and Harlan M. Sands, with Co-Interim Dean Brian E. Ray moderating.
Ohio CLE ethics credit will be requested. Registration information forthcoming.
Richard W. Pogue Leadership Conversation Series
October 29, 2026 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession
The Richard W. Pogue Leadership Conversation Series, presented in partnership with the P. Kelly Tompkins Leadership and Law Program, will feature a timely conversation on artificial intelligence and the legal profession.
The program will explore how rapidly developing AI technologies are changing the way lawyers work, the expectations of clients and employers, and the leadership and professional judgment needed to navigate an AI-enabled legal profession.
Speaker and registration information forthcoming.