Law Professor Takes on AI Education Task Force Role
Praveen Kosuri, a practice professor at Penn Carey Law, was appointed co-chair of the New York City Bar Association's subcommittee on AI and Legal Education. The appointment reflects growing pressure on law schools to prepare students for an AI-transformed practice.
The subcommittee operates under the City Bar's Presidential Task Force on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies, established in 2024. The broader task force includes roughly 250 representatives from over 50 committees and external members-lawyers, academics, technologists, and consultants.
What the Subcommittee Covers
The AI and Legal Education subcommittee addresses four main areas:
- AI's use in legal scholarship and law reviews
- AI's role in teaching methods and clinical instruction
- Ethical questions around AI in legal practice
- Preparing law students to work with AI tools
Kosuri spent the past year in conversations with law professors, law firm leaders, practicing attorneys, and legal technologists. He stepped down as deputy dean for clinical education last summer to focus on these questions full-time.
The Education Model Problem
"Law schools have essentially employed the same model of legal education for nearly 150 years," Kosuri said. "The biggest challenge we face is whether that model will continue to produce graduates with the skillset they need to be highly valued, competent attorneys."
He is developing a legal tech lab at Penn Carey Law to teach students how to use technology for access-to-justice problems and scalable legal work. The City Bar task force provides a venue to test those ideas against perspectives from practice and other schools.
Kosuri has taught experiential courses in entrepreneurship, negotiation, litigation, legal ethics, and crisis simulation since joining Penn Carey Law in 2007. He directs the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic, which provides pro bono legal services to Philadelphia-area entrepreneurs and has become a national model for serving underrepresented founders.
His background spans investment banking, corporate law, commercial litigation, and criminal defense-a combination that shapes how he approaches both classroom instruction and the broader question of what law students need to learn.
For more on how AI is reshaping education and legal work, see our coverage of AI for Education and AI for Legal.
Your membership also unlocks:
