The Jackson-based college is one of the first law schools to mandate AI instruction for all students.
According to Mississippi College, the class was designed and taught by Oliver Roberts, editor-in-chief of AI at The National Law Review and founder of Wickard AI.
“Whether you like AI or not, I believe you should be learning about it because you can strengthen your arguments for it or against it by learning the foundational concepts of it,” Roberts told Mississippi Today.
The AI course requirement reflects a broader shift as courts and law schools prepare lawyers to work with AI systems entering legal practice, and comes as courts experiment with similar tools.
"We're at a place in society where courts are under tremendous strain," Learned Hand founder and CEO Shlomo Klapper told Decrypt. "Their caseloads go up, but no help is coming,” he said, adding that advances in artificial intelligence are “massively dropping the cost of litigation."
