Everyone is using ChatGPT.
But 99% of Law students are not aware of how to leverage this Artificial Intelligence (AI) despite its capabilities.
In fact, ChatGPT recently passed the Minnesota Bar Exam and the new GPT4 did exceedingly well than its predecessors in the bar exams.
Exam results of GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 on a range of recent U.S. exams. Source: OpenAI
In summary, ChatGPT performed as follows;
The Bar Exam: 90%
Law School Admission Test LSAT (An equivalent to the Pre Entry exams of Ugandan Law schools): 88%
Results from the National Conference of Bar Examiners (NCBE)
Here are the Top 7 Ways you can use ChatGPT as a Law student.
But first, for those who don’t know ChatGPT, it is an artificial intelligence conversational bot
For Coursework
Legal Research
Case summaries
Legal Writing
Exam Preparation
Practicing legal reasoning
Creating Study Guides
Let’s explore them in detail as follows;
Thread;
Legal Research.
As a law student, you often need to conduct legal research to find relevant cases and statutes.
ChatGPT can help by suggesting search queries, providing links to relevant sources, and summarizing key points.
ChatGPT can provide links to websites or articles that are related to your research query.
You can click on these links to explore the sources further and determine whether they are useful for your research purposes.
It can as well provide you with the relevant citations to quote in references for your research.
Note: However, do not blindly follow through with every citation or reference given by ChatGPT, verify by researching whether the link is existent via Google.
Case Summary.
ChatGPT can help you create case summaries by providing a summary of the key points of a case, including the holding, reasoning, and key facts.
This can be particularly helpful if you are running out of time yet you need a quick summary of a case. However, ChatGPT is flawed with Ugandan case law.
The best use case will be copying the long text of a case from a site like ULII and prompting it to summarize the key issues, principles, reasoning, and holding behind a case.
For this test, I copied the full text of Uganda V Muwonge Alex and asked ChatGPT to give me a summary following the FILAC (Facts, Issues, Law Applicable, and Conclusion) / IRAC (Issue, Rule, Application, Conclusion) method.
The result was amazing as seen below;
Exam Preparation.
ChatGPT can help you prepare for exams by providing practice questions and hypothetical scenarios that you can work through.
You can ask ChatGPT to give you questions in a Harvard Style of exams or any law school of your choice. Give answers and ask ChatGPT to assess and rate your answers.
This can help you practice applying legal concepts and improve your test-taking skills.
Legal Writing Assistance.
ChatGPT can improve your legal writing by helping you come up with a first draft of coursework, assignments, or research work.
It can as well suggest better phrasing, sentence structure, and vocabulary. You can type a paragraph or sentence you're struggling with, and ChatGPT will suggest ways to improve it.
If you ask me, quite impressive!
Practice Legal Reasoning.
You can use ChatGPT to test your legal reasoning skills by posing hypothetical legal scenarios and seeing how ChatGPT responds.
Send ChatGPT problem questions and have it provide it’s detailed analysis and reasoning on issues as you compare them next to yours.
This can help you think through complex legal issues and develop your analytical skills.
Learning Legal Concepts
You can use ChatGPT as a personal tutor to help you learn legal concepts that you find challenging or have a hard time understanding.
Ask ChatGPT questions or ask for explanations of legal principles that you have difficulty understanding.
Create Study Guides.
Ask ChatGPT to help you create study guides that summarize key concepts and important cases. This can be a great way to review material and ensure you have a solid understanding of your course content.
I hope you found this helpful.
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