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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 

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

Ellen Murphy's Bio & Scholarship

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:

Keith Robinson's Bio & Scholarship

Other Faculty Working in the Field

Abby Perdue

Raina Haque

Sarah Morath