A personal teaching project sharing adaptable materials for AI-augmented legal research.
Teaching AI-Augmented Legal Research is a personal teaching project created by Emily Pavuluri to share adaptable materials from her AI-Augmented Legal Research course and related training work. Its purpose is to make reusable AI legal research teaching materials available to legal educators, law librarians, and legal training professionals.
Who made this
The course and these materials were created by Emily Pavuluri, Assistant Director of Faculty Services at Vanderbilt Law School’s Alyne Queener Massey Law Library and a collaborator with the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab.
Emily teaches legal research in Vanderbilt Law’s first-year Legal Writing and Research program and regularly develops upper-level and specialty instruction, including AI-Augmented Legal Research. Through VAILL, she designs and teaches courses, workshops, and bootcamps focused on the practical use of artificial intelligence in legal research and practice.
Read more about her work on Substack and the VAILL team’s work on their website.
This site is Emily’s personal project. It is not an official Vanderbilt Law School or VAILL publication.
Project background
This project grows out of an upper-level law school course that emphasizes hands-on use of AI research and drafting tools while continuing to refine traditional legal research skills. The course centers accuracy, verification, professional judgment, ethics, confidentiality, and responsible workflow design.
The site began as a way to share the syllabus and a handful of exercises with colleagues at other institutions. It has since grown into a structured, reusable set of teaching materials that can be adapted for credit-bearing courses, library workshops, orientations, CLEs, firm trainings, and asynchronous modules.
Support this project
This site is open and free to use. The support button points to a small tip jar that helps cover domain hosting, platform fees, and maintenance costs required to keep the project online, free, and available to all.
Contributions are entirely optional. Sharing the site, sending corrections, adapting an exercise, or pointing a colleague here also supports the project.
License & reuse
Unless otherwise noted, these materials are released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. You may adapt, remix, and republish them for noncommercial educational use with attribution. Commercial training programs or other commercial uses should contact the project before using or republishing the materials.
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Contact
To submit corrections, share an adaptation, propose a contribution, or request instructor materials, contact Emily at emily.pavuluri@vanderbilt.edu.
Disclaimer
This site reflects an individual teaching project and is intended for educational use. It does not provide legal advice and should be adapted to local institutional policies, professional responsibility rules, and jurisdiction-specific guidance. Any financial contribution supports this independent teaching project, not Vanderbilt Law School or VAILL.