Morgan A. Gray

My research in Artificial Intelligence and Law focuses on case-based reasoning and legal argumentation with statistical methods. My research is motivated by the long standing research in AI and Law focusing on using formal models to analyze precedent, produce arguments, and model reasoning. I seek to accomplish the same but through statistical methods, which are generally more scalable. My dissertation, THETICAL, researches the intersection of machine learning (ML) prediction, legal argumentation, and machine explanation. I also devote a significant amount of time to studying AI Literacy in legal education.

Interested in collaborating?

I'm always happy to hear from researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of AI, law, and legal education. I'm especially drawn to projects involving case-based reasoning, legal argumentation, ML explainability, and AI literacy in legal curricula. The collaborations I find most rewarding tend to start with a concrete question or problem — so if you have one in mind, I'd love to hear about it. Drop me a line at morgan.gray@stthomas.edu.

Teaching

Civil Procedure
University of St. Thomas School of Law

A first-year course covering the rules and principles governing civil litigation in federal courts. Coverage includes foundational topics such as personal jurisdiction, subject matter jurisdiction, venue, pleading, joinder, discovery, summary judgment, and trial.

Offerings: Fall 2025, Spring 2026
Introduction to Computation
University of St. Thomas School of Law

A foundational course in computational thinking designed for law students with little to no technical background. Students develop core skills in logic, abstraction, algorithmic reasoning, and basic programming in Python, all situated within the context of legal practice. Topics include data types, control flow, functions, and elementary data structures. The focus of the course is to introduce students to good practices in computational thinking and how to translate those ideas to solving problems in law with computation.

Previously offered as Programming for Lawyers · Fall 2022, 2023, 2024
Natural Language Lawyering
University of St. Thomas School of Law

An introduction to Natural Language Processing for lawyers. Students develop high-level intuitions around major concepts in NLP—embeddings, language modeling, prompting techniques—gaining a meaningful technical understanding so that encounters with NLP-based technology in practice are informed by an appreciation of training data, training methodology, prompt engineering, and their implications. The course also surveys how these methods have been applied in AI and Law. Students who have completed Introduction to Computation may opt into a simulation track, applying lecture concepts to basic tasks in NLP and Law.

Offerings: Fall 2024

Selected Publications

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