TEACHING ANTIRACISM WHILE TEACHING LEGAL TECHNOLOGY

Artificial intelligence is changing how the law is generated and analyzed, and how legal services are delivered. For example, access to justice is an important movement that advocates for new ways to deliver services to underserved communities. The ABA now seeks regulatory reforms to allow for novel, often AI-driven, approaches to reduce costs and create more economically efficient business models. Law schools are responding to these changes by developing centers for legal innovation and education in legal technology. For all its undeniable promise, some argue that transforming law in this way also may feed a new form of data-driven capitalism that may continue the systems of exploitation that defined previous colonial eras. This thesis is called data colonialism. Teaching about legal technology against the background of data colonialism is essential to forming antiracist lawyers who can confront these new challenges and help to build a more just society.