On Friday 18 September 2026 Cambridge Women in Law held this panel event as part of the Cambridge Alumni Festival.

AI is shaping all walks of life. This is particularly true in respect of the law. Litigants rely on ChatGPT to submit their complaints and lawyers have access to databases of precedents, search tools and the capacity for AI to manage vast numbers of documents, often better than humans. This raises the question whether there is still a need for lawyers and, for the Faculty of Law at Cambridge, what this means for the law degree.

In this session leading Cambridge academics and practitioners debate the challenges and opportunities for legal education posed by the ever-increasing availability and capacity of AI tools.

Speakers:

• Professor Louise Merrett
• Professor Louise Gullifer
• Professor Catherine Barnard
• Professor Felix Steffek
• Jonathan Chamberlain
• Anneliese Day KC

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