Projects & Publications
The Vanderbilt AI Law Lab is dedicated to exploring the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in legal education and the practice of law. Our mission is to foster deep curiosity, critical creativity, and radical collaboration, bridging the gap between technology and law to enhance legal services and legal education.
Projects
Ethical and human-centered by design, VAILL's projects seek to democratize legal knowledge and services for a broader societal impact.
AI Governance Bills Tracker
Navigate and filter AI governance legislation with powerful search tools. View details on bill numbers, titles, status, scope, and last action dates in an easy-to-read table format.
Generative AI for Legal Services Primer
This Coursera course covers what Generative AI is and its applications to a variety of tasks in the legal field. The course also discusses ethics and privacy, basic prompt engineering strategies for legal use cases, and how to leverage Generative AI to augment your legal expertise.
Legal Empowerment: End of Life Planning Project
The project focuses on empowering users to take charge of key life and legacy planning needs—helping individuals prepare advance directives for medical decision-making, guiding them through the creation of simple wills, and supporting families as they navigate the probate process after a loved one’s death.
Publications
VAILL-supported guides, scholarship, and white papers feature practitioners and academics working across multiple disciplines.
Accelerate Governance Research
Understand & Build Custom LLMs
Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a flexible, customizable, and easily maneuverable AI framework that can be applied in dozens of use cases.
AI Community of Practice
A Lawyer's Guide to Getting Started with AI
Cat Moon shares practical steps for beginning your GenAI journey with a comprehensive checklist in a 2025 edition of The American Bar Association.
Key Metrics Performance Evaluation
VALS.AI Benchmarking Study
VALS AI Published its first study of how several legal tech companies responded to a series of tests set for them by major law firms.
Partnerships
We collaborate with legal aid organizations, tech companies, law firms, and other universities to develop and implement AI solutions for legal challenges.
Aderant
Aderant is collaborating with VAILL to drive greater awareness about artificial intelligence to benefit both law students and law firms.
American Arbitration Association
AAA partnered with VAILL to refine ClauseBuilder AI (Beta), an advanced AI tool for crafting clear and effective arbitration and mediation agreements.
Legal Aid of North Carolina
LANC launched an Innovation Lab collaborating with VAILL to identify opportunities for integrating AI to enhance staff efficiency and decision-making.