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Stanford Law School, Stanford Law AI Initiative 2 Episodes Oct 12, 2026

At the intersection of AI and law, the ground is shifting faster than almost anyone can keep up with. Hosted by Irene Liu of Stanford Law School’s AI Initiative, AI Sidebar brings together leading academics, technologists, policymakers, lawyers, and industry leaders to unpack where AI is headed and what it means for law, business, society, and all of us. From the heart of the Bay Area, where AI is being built, debated, and put to the test, the show cuts through the noise to unpack the biggest developments shaping law, business, society, and all of us. Each episode asks the questions that matter: Who is accountable when AI calls the shots, how should we regulate powerful new tools, and what skills will tomorrow’s lawyers need? AI Sidebar is a clear, timely guide to how AI is reshaping the law and how the law may shape the future of AI.

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Jason Boehmig on Building AGI for Law Oct 12, 2026 00:34:12 What does it mean to build the next generation of legal technology when law firms, legal teams, and AI companies are all rethinking what lawyers can do? In this episode of AI Sidebar, Irene Liu talks with Jason Boehmig, who leads Astra for Law, OpenAI’s legal vertical. Before joining OpenAI, Boehmig founded Ironclad, one of the companies that helped reshape modern legal technology.Together, t

Global Regulation, AI Safety, and Preparing for AGI Sep 28, 2026 00:33:02 As frontier AI becomes more powerful, how can society balance its extraordinary promise with the safeguards needed to use it responsibly?In this episode of AI Sidebar, Irene Liu talks with Tom Lue, Vice President of Frontier AI Global Affairs at Google DeepMind and the company’s first general counsel, about the rapidly evolving global AI policy landscape. Lue discusses how AI policy has changed si

How AI Is Reshaping Legal Hiring, Law Firm Roles, and In-House Careers Sep 14, 2026 00:38:42 How is AI changing the legal hiring market, and what do lawyers need to do to stay competitive?In this episode of AI Sidebar, Irene Liu talks with Anna Gorodetsky, a partner at Major, Lindsey & Africa who oversees in-house counsel recruiting, about what law firms and legal departments are looking for in the age of AI. Gorodetsky shares what she is seeing in the market, from new AI innovation r

Why Open Source AI Is Having Its Moment, and What Legal Leaders Need to Know Aug 31, 2026 00:38:17 What does open source AI really mean, why does it matter, and what should legal and business leaders be thinking about as the landscape continues to evolve? In this episode of AI Sidebar, Irene Liu talks with Heather Meeker, an internationally recognized open source software licensing expert, partner at TechLaw Partners, co-founder of Chinstrap Community, and author of Open Source for Business. Me

AI-Native, Lawyer-Centered: Building the Law Firm of the Future Aug 17, 2026 00:25:53 What does it take to build a good AI-native law firm when the goal is not just efficiency, but giving lawyers more leverage, more agency, and more space for the human judgement at the heart of legal work? In this episode of AI Sidebar, Irene Liu talks with Ryan Daniels, co-founder and CEO of Crosby AI and a Stanford Law School alum, about what he’s learned building an AI-native law firm focused o

How Agentic AI Is Redefining the Role of the Product Counsel Aug 3, 2026 00:35:56 For product lawyers, the agentic era is changing more than the tools; it is changing how products are built, how risks surface, and how legal advice reaches the business. And who better to explore that shift than the creator of Claude for Legal and associate general counsel at Anthropic, Mark Pike. Drawing on his experience at Slack and Anthropic, Pike offers a firsthand look at what product coun

When AI Answers Beat Law Professors: What It Means for Lawyers and Law Schools Jul 20, 2026 00:35:34 What does it mean for quality, legal expertise, and judgment when law professors actually prefer AI answers over answers written by other law professors in a blind study? In this episode of AI Sidebar, Irene Liu talks with Stanford Law Professor Julian Nyarko, faculty director of liftlab and co-director of Stanford Law’s AI Initiative, about his recent study examining how legal experts evaluate AI

Legal Engineers: The New AI Role Reshaping Law Jul 6, 2026 00:36:53 Legal teams are not just adopting AI tools, they need to reimagine the work; who should do the work, how it should be done, and what should be redesigned entirely. In this episode, host Irene Liu sits down with Mary O’Carroll, CEO of LegalEng Consulting Group and a longtime leader in legal operations and legal technology, to discuss legal ‘rightsourcing’ in the age of AI. Drawing on her experience

CLO playbook: Leading through AI and Corporate Transformation Jun 29, 2026 00:40:43 How can Chief Legal Officers lead AI transformation in ways that are strategic, practical, and tied to how legal work actually gets done? In this episode of AI Sidebar, host Irene Liu sits down with April Miller Boise, former executive vice president and chief legal officer of Intel, to discuss how legal leaders can guide their organizations through both AI adoption and broader corporate transform

Law Schools in the Age of AI Jun 22, 2026 00:38:14 How should law schools respond when AI begins to reshape not only the tools of lawyering but the profession’s core responsibilities? In the debut episode of AI Sidebar, host Irene Liu sits down with Stanford Law School Dean George Triantis, who lays out Stanford Law’s overall approach to AI: prepare students to use the technology fluently and responsibly, preserve the human judgment at the heart o

AI Sidebar Trailer Jun 15, 2026 00:01:14 At the intersection of AI and law, the ground is shifting faster than almost anyone can keep up with. Hosted by Irene Liu of Stanford Law School’s AI Initiative, AI Sidebar brings together leading academics, technologists, policymakers, lawyers, and industry leaders to unpack where AI is headed and what it means for law, business, society, and all of us. From the heart of the Bay Area, where AI is

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