Stanford Study Finds AI Beats Law Professors 75% Of The Time

BreakingBusinessStanford Study Finds AI Beats Law Professors 75% Of The TimeByAlicia Park,Reporter. I cover markets and tech.Follow AuthorJun 02, 2026, 03:14pm EDTToplineA blind study led by Stanford Law School professor Julian Nyarko published Monday found AI-generated responses outperformed those written by fellow law professors in 75% of nearly 3,000 head-to-head comparisons—a result the authors themselves called surprising. Palo Alto, CA, USA - Sept. 17, 2015: Stanford University Hoover Tower. Completed in 1941, the 50th year of Stanford University's anniversary, the tower was inspired by the cathedral tower in Salamanca, Spain.gettyKey FactsWhen law professors were handed a stack of anonymized answers to student contract questions and asked to pick the better one, they reached for the AI's response three times out of four.Across 16 law schools, professors evaluated almost 3,000 anonymized matchups without knowing whether a given answer came from a machine or a colleague. Professors flagged AI answers as pedagogically misleading or harmful just 3.5% of the time, against 12% for peer-written answers, meaning the human responses were more than three times as likely to be deemed potentially damaging to a student's understanding.Nyarko, who directs Stanford's Legal Innovation through Frontier Technology Lab, said the group is “not advocating for wholesale adoption of AI tutors,” but that “our data suggests that blanket skepticism may be equally unwarranted.” if (!window.cnxel) { window.cnxel = {}; window.cnxel.cmd = []; var iframe = document.createElement('iframe'); iframe.style.display = 'none'; iframe.onload = function() { var iframeDoc = iframe.contentWindow.document; var script = iframeDoc.createElement('script'); script.src = '//cd.elements.video/player.js?cid=62cec241-7d09-4462-afc2-f72f8d8ef40a'; script.setAttribute('defer', '1'); script.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript'); iframeDoc.body.appendChild(script); }; document.head.appendChi...