Students

Want to build real AI fluency that employers recognize? Explore CSU Law’s AI programming—centers, courses, professional training, and certificate opportunities—designed to help you:

• use AI tools responsibly (confidentiality, verification, professional judgment)
• understand AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and IP issues
• translate AI capabilities into better legal work product Get involved: Watch for upcoming events, guest speakers, and training cohorts, and connect with faculty to map an AI pathway that fits your goals.

Employers and Partners

CSU Law is building practice-ready talent for an AI-enabled legal market. Our faculty and staff together with our AI Advisory Council is aligning our curriculum and training with real-world needs in:

• AI governance and risk management
• privacy, cybersecurity, and compliance
• IP, licensing, and technology transactions
• legal operations and responsible innovation

AI Advisory Council

CSU Law’s AI Advisory Council brings together leaders from law firms, in-house legal departments, legal tech, and academia to guide CSU Law’s broader AI Strategy. Council members help ensure our approach to AI education is practical, responsible, and employer-informed—from AI governance and privacy to IP and technology transactions—so graduates are ready to advise clients and deliver value in an AI-shaped legal profession.

GenAI Professional Training

CSU Law’s partnership with award-winning legal training provider AltaClaro is a key part of our broader AI Strategy to ensure every CSU Law graduate has a practical, responsible baseline for using generative AI in legal work. Through this collaboration, CSU Law offers every student access to the same training and skills certificate that Alta Claro provides to legal professionals. This program teaches students how to use AI tools effectively while understanding their limits, with an emphasis on verification, professional judgment, confidentiality-aware workflows, and ethical risk management.

CSU Law AI Advisory Council

Cleveland State University College of Law's AI Advisory Council is a group of distinguished practitioners, industry leaders, legal technologists, and academics—working alongside CSU Law faculty and administrators—to help guide CSU Law's broader AI Strategy. The Council's membership reflects the reality of today's legal market: organizations are adopting AI quickly, but they need lawyers who can pair innovation with sound judgment. Drawing on deep experience in AI governance, privacy and cybersecurity, IP and technology transactions, legal operations, and responsible enterprise adoption, the Council helps CSU Law stay aligned with what clients and employers expect—now and next.

The Council's role is practical and forward-looking. It supports CSU Law's efforts to build practice-ready AI fluency through a combination of curriculum integration, co-curricular training, and employer-informed credentials—including the AltaClaro partnership and certificate programming—while reinforcing the professional fundamentals that matter most: confidentiality, verification, competence, and accountability. In partnership with our faculty and staff the Council helps identify priority skills, shape programming and events, and spot emerging issues at the intersection of law and AI so that CSU Law graduates are prepared not only to use AI tools effectively, but to advise clients responsibly in an AI-supported legal profession.