Emory Law launches new AI and the Law concentration for Fall 2026

Emory University School of Law will offer a new concentration in AI and the Law beginning in academic year 2026-27. The concentration creates an academic pathway for students to develop expertise in a field that is transforming legal practice. Graduates who complete the concentration will be able to signal fluency to employers in navigating legal challenges posed by artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. The concentration builds on Emory Law's existing curricular strengths. It draws together core and elective courses from the law school and interdisciplinary offerings in areas such as business, technology, and quantitative methods. Emory Law is supported by the university's AI.Humanity Initiative, the Center for AI Learning, and a commitment to recruiting leading scholars in AI and law. Dean Richard Freer said the roster of AI-focused faculty is strong. He noted that the concentration will formalize and provide credit opportunities for the AI-centered education already available to students. Freer described it as another step forward in the administration's top strategic goal of student flourishing. The concentration joins existing academic tracks at Emory Law. These include concentrations in Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Criminal Litigation, Health Law, and Law and Religion, as well as certificate programs in Transactional Law and Skills and Technological Innovation. The Committee of Advisors includes Matthew Sag, an authority on copyright and AI who testified before the US Senate on generative AI. Other members are Ifeoma Ajunwa, founding director of Emory Law's AI and the Future of Work Program and author of The Quantified Worker; Jessica Roberts, a scholar of AI's legal and ethical implications in healthcare; Kevin Quinn, who teaches Data Science and the Law; and Nicole Morris, director of Emory Law's Innovation and Legal Tech Initiative. Matthew Sag said law schools have spent decades teaching students to think like lawyers. This concentration teaches them to think like lawyers in a world where clients, opponents, and judges are grappling with AI. That is not a niche skill anymore. It is a core competency.