AI may dominate the conversation, but innovation in law schools now reaches far beyond technology, transforming how students learn and how future lawyers serve clients.
“Innovation is so much different than it was five years ago,” said Jon Garon, professor and director of the Goodwin Program for Society, Technology and the Law at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. “Five years ago, if you launched a new center or a new course, that was pushing the envelope. With AI now, it’s about translating skills across the student body and not about a single course. It’s about making those skills really relevant to the rapidly changing legal practice.”
For Garon, who helped evaluate this year’s nominations for preLaw’s Most Innovative Law Schools, the highest measure of innovation is scale and impact…