US law schools ban laptops to curb AI; critic calls it pedagogical inertia
jkubicki · x · 2026-09-22
Per Reuters Legal, some US law students arrived this fall to find laptops and phones banned in class as schools restrict AI access. The author argues that's the lazy path: real work means changing hypos, reworking cold-call sequences, and grading the process of using AI tools rather than pretending they don't exist—device bans just let faculty reuse the same notes every semester.
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