Emory University School of Law will offer a new concentration in Artificial Intelligence and the Law beginning in the 2026-27 academic year, giving students a formal pathway to develop expertise in one of the fastest-growing areas of legal practice.
The concentration builds on Emory Law’s existing curriculum, combining core and elective law courses with interdisciplinary offerings in business, technology and quantitative methods.
Emory Law is home to one of the strongest AI-focused programs in legal education, bolstered by Emory University’s AI.Humanity Initiative, the Center for AI Learning and a university-wide commitment to recruiting leading scholars in AI and law.
Richard Freer, dean of Emory Law, said the new AI & Law concentration will formalize and provide credit opportunities for its AI-centered education available to its students.
“It’s another step forward in the number one strategic goal of this administration: student flourishing,” Freer said.
The concentration requires students to complete at least 12 credits drawn from three core areas: foundational courses at the intersection of law and AI, privacy and technology law and intellectual property. Students can also supplement those courses with approved electives, internships and externships.
There’s no competitive application process — students simply need to satisfy the requirements and indicate their interest in their final semester. Those who do will have “Artificial Intelligence and the Law Concentration” listed directly on their transcript.
The concentration’s committee of advisors includes Matthew Sag, a world-leading authority on copyright and AI who testified before the U.S. Senate on generative AI; Ifeoma Ajunwa, founding director of Emory Law’s AI and the Future of Work Program and author of “The Quantified Worker;” Jessica Roberts, a leading scholar of AI’s legal and ethical implications in health care; Kevin Quinn, who teaches Data Science and the Law and whose research focuses on questions of empirical legal studies and statistical methodology; and Nicole Morris, who directs Emory Law’s Innovation and Legal Tech Initiative and was named one of the American Bar Association’s Women of Legal Tech.
“Law schools have spent decades teaching students to think like lawyers. This concentration teaches them to think like lawyers in a world where their clients, their opponents and the judges they appear before are all grappling with AI,” Sag said. “That’s not a niche skill anymore — it’s a core competency.”
Graduates who complete the concentration will be able to signal to employers not just interest, but fluency, in navigating the legal challenges posed by artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.
The AI & Law concentration joins the existing academic tracks at Emory Law, including concentrations in Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Criminal Litigation, Health Law and Law and Religion, as well as two certificate programs in Transactional Law and Skills and Technological Innovation.
