Judy Stinson Lecture Series

Judy Stinson Lecture

Generative AI at 2½: Making it Work for Law Practice

March 26, 2025


Michael Murray

Professor Michael Murray

On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University is pleased to announce that Professor Michael Murray, the Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, will deliver the Fifth Annual Judy Stinson Lecture. Professor Murray will deliver a lecture titled Generative AI at 2½: Making it Work for Law Practice, which will offer a synthesis of his already prodigious scholarship in the area.

 

About the lecture

The Judy Stinson Lecture is an annual event featuring a legal scholar hosted by ASU Law. The lecture series is named after Judy Stinson, who retired in 2020 after teaching legal writing for 27 years. Judy's distinguished career includes both the Thomas F. Blackwell Award and the Rocky Mountain Award. She is a previous president of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and member of its Board of Directors. With Suzanne Rabe and Terry Pollman, she co-founded the Rocky Mountain Legal Writing Conference in 2000. She is the author of Examples & Explanations: Legal Writing, now in its third edition (with Terry Pollman as co-author) and The Tao of Legal Writing, as well as numerous articles.

Judy was the Director of ASU Law’s Legal Method and Writing Program from 1997 to 2011, when the program became autonomous. She was also the Director of the Academic Success Program from 1997 to 2006. She served as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs from 2011 to 2017, and then Executive Associate Dean from 2017 to 2018. In 2019, ASU awarded her the Distinguished Professorship in Legal Method, a fully endowed $1 million professorship.

Past Lectures 

2024 - Robert Anderson

 

2023 - Christine Venter

 

2022 - Melissa Weresh

 

2021 - Linda Berger

Inaugural Judy Stinson Lecture on March 25, 2021