Crespi: How To Grade Law Students In 'Paper Classes' In The Age Of AI

Gregory S. Crespi (SMU; Google Scholar), How To Grade Law Students Taking 'Paper Classes' Given Student Access to Artificial Intelligence Programs: Some Preliminary Thoughts:

This short paper presents and discusses a new approach to teaching “paper classes” in law school, given current student access to artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT. These programs are now capable of producing research papers in response to carefully structured prompts that with only minor editing are generally sufficient to obtain at least minimal passing grades, and these programs are improving rapidly in their capabilities. This approach attempts to balance several different concerns that are raised by these programs. ...

This paper is obviously a preliminary draft that only describes the approach to deal with the implications of AI that I plan to follow for this larger enrollment paper class, with no data available to me as yet as to the effectiveness of my approach. At the end of the semester I will prepare a revised and expanded draft of this paper evaluating how effective (or ineffective) my approach has been in dealing in a productive way with the assessment concerns and other issues raised for law school paper classes of this type by AI.