From Reuters: Law professors overwhelmingly preferred answers drafted by AI over ones written by fellow professors, a new Stanford Law School study found,* suggesting that the technology is capable of legal reasoning and that law students may benefit from AI tutoring. Professors from 14 U.S. law schools developed a list of 40 questions representative of those first-year contracts students ask during faculty office hours. The professors wrote answers to the questions, and researchers had two AI platforms — Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro and NotebookLM — also answer them.
The same professors blindly judged the short answers head-to-head and chose the AI-generated ones as most beneficial to students 75% of the time. The AI platforms performed just as well as the professor rated most highly in the study...
Full story at https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/ai-beats-law-professors-stanford-tutoring-study-2026-06-02/.
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The study is at https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/salinas_et_al.pdf.
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