Two-year law school experiment: ChatGPT training advantage mostly vanished by year two
HarrySurden · x · 2026-09-10
Law professor ProfSchrepel ran a two-year classroom experiment: one group banned from ChatGPT, one left unsupervised, one given structured training. In year one, structured training clearly won; by year two the edge had mostly disappeared.
The paper is now fully open access, thanks to the Dutch Taverne amendment allowing authors to share the published version after six months.
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