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Gregory M. Duhl. Professor of Law. Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Gregory Duhl was formerly the faculty director of blended learning and instrumental to the school’s effort to launch the first half online/half in-person J.D. program at an ABA-approved law school. He primarily teaches commercial law, contracts, and bankruptcy and is the co-editor-in-chief of The Business Lawyer, the scholarly law journal of the ABA Section of Business Law. Education B.A., 1991, Yale College J.D., 1995, Harvard Law School LL.M., 2002, Temple University School of Law Experience Mitchell Hamline School of Law: associate dean for strategic initiatives, 2015-; professor of law, 2015-. William Mitchell College of Law: professor of law, 2013-2015; associate professor of law, 2008-2013. The Business Lawyer: associate editor-in-chief, 2011-; executive editor, 2008-2011; managing editor, 2007-2008; associate faculty editor, 2006-2007. University of Tulsa College of Law: assistant professor of law, 2006-2007. Southern Illinois University College of Law: visiting assistant professor of law, 2004-2006. Temple University School of Law: Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellow and Lecturer-in-Law, 2002-2004. Commercial transactional and litigation attorney, private practice, Chicago, IL, 2000-2002. Associate, Schiff Hardin & Waite, Chicago, IL, 1999. Associate, Brown & Bain, P.A., Phoenix, AZ, 1997-1999. Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1996-1997. Associate, Mayer, Brown & Platt, Chicago, IL, 1995-1996. Admitted: Illinois, 1995. Leadership and Service Chair, Academic and Student Affairs Committee, 2012- Member, Academic Leadership Team, 2012- Managing Director, William Mitchell’s Center for Negotiation & Justice, 2010-2015 Chair, Curriculum Committee, 2010-2012 Chair, First-Year Pilot Implementation Committee, 2010-2012 Director, William Mitchell Fellow Program, 2009-2011

All In: Embedding AI in the Law School Classroom

What is the irreducibly human element in legal education when AI can pass the bar exam, generate effective lectures, and provide personalized learning and academic support? This article by law professor Gregory M. Duhl confronts that question head-on by documenting the planning and design of a comprehensive transformation of a required doctrinal law school course—first-year Contracts— with AI fully embedded throughout the course design. Instead of adding AI exercises to conventional pedagogy or creating a stand-alone AI course, this approach reimagines legal education for the AI era by integrating AI as a learning enhancer rather than a threat to be managed. The transformation serves Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s access-driven mission: AI helps create equity for diverse learners, prepares practice-ready professionals for legal practice transformed by AI, and shifts the institutional narrative from policing technology use to leveraging it pedagogically.

Subjects: AI, Education, KM, Legal Education, Legal Profession, Legal Research, Legal Technology, LEXIS, Westlaw