Caitlin Moon

Biography

Caitlin "Cat" Moon serves as founding co-director of the Vanderbilt AI Law Lab (VAILL) and co-directs the Program on Law and Innovation (PoLI) at Vanderbilt Law School. In these roles, she co-designs the technology and innovation curriculum for the JD program. She also founded the Summit on Law and Innovation (SoLI), which brings together experts across legal, technology, and other disciplines in collaborative legal innovation projects. Professor Moon currently teaches the VAILL Practicum, Legal Problem Solving, Law as a Business, Legal Operations, Leading in the Law, Data in Law Practice, AI in Law Practice, and Designing a Life in the Law.

Professor Moon’s current academic research on AI in law practice centers on how legal professionals can use AI and other technologies to innovate the delivery of legal services. For over a decade, she has been studying the 21st-century competencies for legal professionals in combination with lawyer thriving and achieving true diversity and inclusion across the profession. She is a co-creator of the Delta Model for lawyer competency and Design Your Delta, a playbook for holistic professional development grounded in human-centered design principles and methods.

In addition to her Vanderbilt teaching roles, Professor Moon works with law firms, legal departments, legal aid organizations, and law schools globally to bring a human-centered design perspective to re-imagining the delivery of legal services, lawyer formation, and inclusion across the profession. She regularly speaks and facilitates workshops across the United States and globally on the application of human-centered design and technology to realize innovation in both the legal profession and legal education.

Professor Moon is a Fellow and Trustee of the College of Law Practice Management and serves on the advisory board for the Justice Tech Association, Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Innovation Lab, and the MIT Computational Law Report. Professor Moon received the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services’ Janice M. Holder Award in 2017, recognizing her work in creating access to justice solutions through legal hackathons. She has been recognized in the inaugural class (2016) of ABA’s Women of Legal Tech and by Fastcase 50. Professor Moon also is a co-organizer of Music City Legal Hackers, part of the global Legal Hackers community.