{"title":"Teaching Business Law and Ethics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: On Judgment, Ethics, and What 30 Years in the Classroom Have Taught Me About This Moment","authors":"Ann M. Olazábal","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 2","pages":"159-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Yes, We Can Have Class Outside: Illustrating Zoning and Property Development Law Through Walking Tours","authors":"Susan A. Supina, Michael J. Garrison","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Walking tours in campus neighborhoods illustrate how zoning and development law translates into the built environment. By showing how regulatory pressures physically changed a space already familiar to students, instructors can demonstrate legal principles in a memorable way. This article contributes to business law pedagogy by providing tools to create localized tours that raise business strategy and ethics issues for use in assessments or class discussions. Such tours can be scaled and adapted to business law or real estate courses, while assignment options allow instructors to extend the experience to related issues, from historical discrimination to business strategy.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 2","pages":"135-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who Doesn't Love a Noncompete? An In-Class Exploration of Administrative Rulemaking","authors":"Stephanie Prevost","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This teaching note presents an in-class exercise for business law instructors to use as an introduction to administrative rulemaking processes and realistic interactions among businesses, workers, and administrative agencies. The exercise prompts students to draft public comments articulating different perspectives in response to the Federal Trade Commission's rule on noncompete agreements. After completing this exercise, students have a comprehensive understanding of how agency rulemaking impacts individual workers and businesses. This teaching note provides guidance for instructors to build out a similar exercise in their classrooms.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 2","pages":"111-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incorporating Generative AI into a Contract Negotiation Exercise","authors":"Anthony L. McMullen","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This teaching note describes a contract negotiation exercise that integrates generative artificial intelligence (GAI) into an undergraduate Legal Environment of Business course. Students work in teams to review a fictional licensing scenario, negotiate terms with another team, and draft a final agreement. Along the way, they use GAI tools for idea generation, drafting, and evaluation. It emphasizes both the substance of contract law and the interpersonal skills required for successful negotiation. While the agreements produced are not ready for use without legal review, students gain practical experience with real-world processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 2","pages":"83-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Demonstrating the Power of Mediation in a Case with No Right Answers","authors":"Carly Stein","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This teaching note offers an in-class exercise to demonstrate the complexity of the mediation process. The note explains the importance of experiential learning exercises and the active learning processes to explain concepts and how to use the exercise to further student understanding. The note uses torts as an example case, but the activity can be adapted to any legal topic, including contract and employment law disputes. Students will increase their understanding of the nuances of litigation and the benefits of mediation.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 2","pages":"125-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148784576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education Theory Integrated in Business Law","authors":"Robin Boyle-Laisure","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Education theorists have identified three pedagogical techniques that enhance student learning and retention of knowledge, namely, scaffolding, interleaving, and schema-building. These techniques help students transfer knowledge from short-term to long-term memory, where it is best retained for future use. Scaffolding involves part-task sequencing and whole-task sequencing. By interleaving tasks, professors present steps out of order or new material before the prior material is fully understood. Assisting students in developing schemas can help them store their knowledge in long-term memory. This article explains and explores these techniques as applied in an undergraduate business law course. The appendices provide detailed exercises that integrate these theoretical concepts with lessons.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"31-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hear Me Out: A Lesson in Civil Discourse","authors":"Cheryl L. Black","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article describes an innovative and engaging lecture and class exercise designed to teach students how to think critically about issues from different perspectives and communicate effectively with those who disagree with them. The interactive lecture and class exercise introduce a civil discourse framework to encourage constructive dialogue. Developed for business law and ethics courses, the civil discourse framework enhances any curriculum that addresses controversial topics or different perspectives on complex issues. The lecture and class exercise offer a concrete, replicable model to teach civil discourse.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"7-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jlse.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI and Student Flourishing: Chasing What Matters in Life","authors":"Corey A. Ciocchetti","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a defining feature of the modern college experience, promising efficiency, connection, and academic advantage. Yet students often adopt AI without reflecting on how its use shapes the deeper aims of education and life. This essay contends that student flourishing is not achieved through the relentless pursuit of grades, credentials, or technological shortcuts, but through commitment to three enduring concepts: meaningful friendships, virtuous character, and authentic contentment. Using a narrative metaphor that distinguishes “real” from “fake” pursuits, the paper introduces the concept of the AI Trap—the tendency to rely on AI in ways that bypass the human effort, struggle, and relational presence required for flourishing. The essay examines AI's influence on student relationships, character formation, and contentment, drawing on empirical research on loneliness, Aristotelian virtue ethics, and psychological studies of wellbeing. It concludes by arguing that while AI is an indispensable tool in higher education, educators have a moral obligation to guide students toward forms of AI use that support—rather than displace—the human practices through which flourishing is ultimately achieved.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"69-74"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acting, Drawing, and Playing It Out: Enhancing Your Examples with Kinesthetic Learning","authors":"Ilisabeth S. Bornstein","doi":"10.1111/jlse.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jlse.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This teaching note offers examples of kinesthetic learning—acting, drawing, and playing—to enhance all law-related courses. The note explains what these kinesthetic learning activities are, and how and why to use them. Torts is used as an example here, but the exercises can be used for any legal topic, from contracts to agency to securities. Students will increase their classroom engagement and their understanding in all content areas when kinesthetic learning is part of their instruction. The pedagogical benefits of kinesthetic learning are explained and demonstrated in the note and supporting materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":42278,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Legal Studies Education","volume":"43 1","pages":"51-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2026-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146176418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}