NUS Law joins Legora legal AI scholars program

The Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore has joined the Legal AI Scholars Program from Legora, giving faculty and students complimentary access to the platform for legal research, document review and drafting, IT Brief Asia reports.

NUS Law plans to introduce the platform only after students have built core legal foundations. Teaching will focus on when AI should be used, how its outputs should be assessed and students' responsibility for their own arguments. Legora's Singapore team will run training sessions and work with NUS Libraries to support access.

"Good lawyering, however, still starts with reading cases closely, building a sound argument and taking responsibility for it. We will therefore introduce Legora only once students have established these foundations," said Professor Tan Cheng Han SC, chief strategy officer at the NUS Faculty of Law.

NUS Law joins Singapore Management University in the program's Asia Pacific group. Other participants include Stanford Law School, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, the University of Chicago Law School and King's College London. Legora also works with academic staff to build AI exercises and assignments into existing courses.