Notre Dame Embraces Harvey AI
Norma Harris, LawFuel contributor
Notre Dame Law claims bragging rights as the inaugural law school to integrate Harvey AI into their curriculum—while Stanford, NYU, Michigan, UCLA, and Texas quietly passed pilot phase. Students get to craft prompts, faculty get gen-AI lesson plans, and the industry… well, is still trying to catch up.
Notre Dame Law School announced its tie-up with Harvey, the stealthy legal-AI hotshot, launching a “law school alliance program” that includes Stanford, NYU, Michigan, UCLA, Texas and of course Notre Dame, after a pilot last year.
How Harvey AI Got Into Law School
Notre Dame may be ‘first’ in name, but the real headline is the legal profession just invited itself into law school, a major development in legal training. Harvey’s not just teaching law, it’s training the next cohort of its own salesforce.
AboveTheLaw isn’t buying the “first” story. Although Notre Dame proudly declared itself the pioneer, conveniently glossing over the fact other schools were already in the program.
Dean Marcus Cole insists AI is unavoidable. Law firm clients will expect practitioners to wield it, so students must learn ethics and efficiency from day one. Harvey’s CEO Winston Weinberg is blunter: train students early, and they’ll become career-long evangelists for Harvey’s tech.
This isn’t ChatGPT 101, either. Students, faculty, and administrators gain access to Harvey’s workflows, Word add-in, Vault for documents, and co-created curricula. It’s not optional. It’s smart. It’s ironic. And it’s behaviour-shaping under the guise of education.
Harvey continues on a major upward trajectory. The comppany was valued at $3 billion in early 2025 after multiple fundraises, and has already been deployed at Paul Weiss and Allen & Overy as test cases.
It appears that law schools must now embrace the Gen-AI game and put it firmly into their sandbox. It raises its own questions about the role AI will play in an increasingly altered legal world, but the Harvey move is one that we see being a precursor to more law school activity in the AI space – and very soon.
