Faculty AI Scholarship & Engagement
Wake Forest Law faculty are leading the conversation about AI and the legal profession. Through their scholarship, our faculty examine AI’s impact across the law, exploring its implications for legal practice, access to justice, regulation, ethics, privacy, intellectual property, and more.
Below are some highlights from our faculty’s work.
Ellen Murphy

Served on the Subcommittee of the North Carolina State Bar Ethics Committee that wrote the 2024 Formal Ethics Opinion 1: Use of Artificial Intelligence in a Law Practice
Presentations about the ethical use of AI in the practice of law, including to various trade groups, private law firms, and other professional groups
- Hot Topics in Legal Ethics 2026: AI, AI, and More AI, Eastern Bankruptcy Institute, May 29, 2026
- AI in Law Practice: Navigating the Ethical Landscape, Iowa State University/, September 17, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence in Law Practice: Navigating the Ethical Landscape, National Agricultural Law Center, June 7, 2024
- Client Protection Funds and the Rise of AI, American Bar Association, May 31, 2024
Presentations for the National Center for Access to Justice and a podcast for the Access to Justice Lab @ Harvard on how AI can be used to help address the civil justice gap
Keith Robinson

Book Chapter – Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency in AI Patents, in Inclusive Innovation in the Age of AI and Big Data (Daryl Lim & Peter K. Yu eds., Oxford Univ. Press 2026)
Scholarly Publications:
- Enabling Artificial Intelligence, 60 Hous. L. Rev. 331 (2022)
- Artificial Intelligence and Access to the Patent System, 21 Nev. L.J. 729 (2021)
Media and Publications:
- The Shaye Ganam Show – Radio interview on AI-assisted patent inventorship and legal implications, 630 CHED/770 CHQR (March 17, 2025)
- “When Humans Use AI to Earn Patents, Who Is Doing the Inventing?” The Conversation (March 14, 2025)
- Neil Marion, Who Legally Owns Art Created with Artificial Intelligence? (February 3, 2023)


