P2P

P E E R T O P E E R M A G A Z I N E · F A L L 2 0 2 5 51 AI education can look like in law schools. Our work encompasses more than just training students to navigate specific platforms. We equip them with AI literacy, blending tool awareness, general capabilities, critical thinking, ethical grounding, and adaptability. These are the skills that future lawyers and legal leaders need to thrive in legal environments undergoing unprecedented layers of rapid change. VANDERBILT'S APPROACH AND THE ROLE OF VAILL Vanderbilt Law School embraced this shift through a bold commitment to create VAILL and prioritize a human-centered approach to exploring how AI intersects with law and legal education. Through VAILL and our broader curriculum, we create and launch courses that directly address students' needs in AI education. Our approach includes introducing them to the types of tools they are most likely to encounter in practice, exploring how generative AI is impacting and reshaping workflows, and empowering them to engage with AI as informed professionals who can confidently interact with it. For example, one course enables students to act as decision-makers by evaluating tools, developing implementation strategies, and addressing the practical challenges surrounding data security and firm policies. More importantly, our courses help students understand risks, benefits, and how these tools will complement their future practice broadly. If law schools neglect AI education now, they do their students a disservice. The myth of the "digital native" can lull us into assuming that younger generations

• Cover