I completed my law degree at a working-class London university. In my first year, I was 18 years old, and I was often the youngest person in the room: almost everyone else was a paralegal, clerk or caseworker with years of live files behind them, studying part-time to qualify for the job they pretty much already did.

But all four years, he same scene played out over and over:

A mature student would answer from experience, and the teacher would say: “No. This is not right.”
The mature student would go: “But this is exactly how I dealt with my case yesterday.”
The teacher would eventually settle it with something along the lines of “At the end of the day, this is what you need to pass your exam.”

The more it happened, the more I understood why people would tell me “nothing in practice happens how they teach it in school”.

One term, a practising barrister covered for a teacher. He was in court every morning, and teaching in the afternoons.

The first thing he did was telling us to get the practitioner's handbook he used instead, and taught is using examples from his real cases.

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Outline:

(01:50) The profile the field is short of

(03:07) The GDPR as the obvious example

(06:07) "OK, so the EU failed at embedding a gatekeeper for its privacy law. What does this have to do with AI Risk?"

(08:53) Taking the silo down

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
July 10th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MaXtWhyArguty23Mi/ai-safety-policy-needs-to-train-legal-practitioners

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“AI Safety Policy Needs to train Legal Practitioners” by Katalina Hernandez

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“AI Safety Policy Needs to train Legal Practitioners” by Katalina Hernandez