Faculty of Law to pilot leading legal AI tool Harvey.AI for research
Oxford’s Faculty of Law has become one of the first UK law schools to partner with Harvey.AI, a leading law-specific artificial intelligence platform used by many major firms worldwide.
Harvey’s platform builds on large language models including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claude, combining them with workplace automation tools designed to enhance legal professionals’ productivity in areas such as contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation.
Through this new collaboration, the Faculty will make Harvey available securely and at no cost to academic staff for use in legal research. It will allow faculty members to consider the potential for useful deployment in pedagogy.
The initiative reflects the Faculty’s continuing commitment to providing researchers with access to a wide range of advanced technologies to support their work and to explore how AI can be used responsibly within legal scholarship. Earlier this year, Oxford University provided staff and students with individual access to ChatGPT Edu, a version of ChatGPT built for universities that includes enterprise-level security and controls.
Professor John Armour, Dean of the Faculty of Law, said:
“Generative AI is transforming the legal sector. By making generative AI tools available to our Faculty members, we empower them to apply these tools in their research. Through this, we are learning about the capabilities of AI tools and reflecting on the ethics and utility of their deployment in research and for pedagogy.”
The Faculty will begin the rollout of Harvey this term, with opportunities for academic colleagues to explore its applications in their own research. Training opportunities will be advertised through Faculty communication channels.
US-based Harvey has already partnered with a number of leading law schools in the US, including Stanford, NYU, Michigan, UCLA, Texas and Notre Dame.
John Haddock, Chief Business Officer at Harvey, added:
“Expanding to the UK is a natural next step given Harvey’s partnership with leading firms in London. The UK’s law schools have a rich history of shaping global legal practice, and their embrace of AI in education sets an exciting precedent for the profession worldwide.
