Your students already use AI.
Give them one that cites.
An institution-controlled legal AI workspace for study, moot, supervised research, and teaching. Every answer traces back to a statute, a judgment, or a peer-reviewed paper.
Question 3 of 6
If Parliament can amend the Constitution, why can it not alter its basic structure? Take the argument, not the conclusion.
Because amending power is derived, not original — so it cannot be used to displace the document that grants it…
Follow-up
Good. Now test it: which clause grants that derived power, and what did the Court say about its limits in Kesavananda?
The question on every faculty agenda
Banning it failed. Governing it works.
The choice is no longer whether law students use AI. It is whether they use one your institution can see, shape, and stand behind when an examiner asks where a citation came from.
Answers no one can check
General assistants write fluently and cite confidently, including authorities that do not exist. A student cannot tell the difference. Neither, at speed, can a marker.
Usage you cannot see
It is already happening — on personal accounts, outside any policy, with your institution's coursework pasted into consumer tools.
The reasoning gets skipped
A chatbot hands over the conclusion. Legal education exists to teach the route to it.
Academic Mode answers all three: sources on every claim, access held by the institution, and study tools that make a student argue rather than copy.
Study tools
Ten ways to practise. None of them do the thinking.
Each tool changes the session structure, the prompting, and the feedback — while carrying the student's course, jurisdiction, and material into every session. Three carry the argument.
Study Tools
Practice
Build
Plan
Complete your profile
Skills work better with your details.
Socratic Drill
The tool asks; the student answers. It presses on the weak step in the reasoning instead of handing over a conclusion.
IRAC Practice
Section-by-section feedback on writing the student produced — where the issue is buried, where the application is thin.
Cold Call Prep
Rehearse the case, its context, and the follow-ups faculty actually ask, until the position can be defended out loud.
And seven more
Case Brief — facts, issue, holding, ratio from a judgment
Legal Writing — organisation and analytical depth across drafts
Outline Builder — a course outline from a syllabus or notes
Flashcards — study cards from the student's own material
Study Plan — a schedule around real subjects and deadlines
Bar Prep — jurisdiction-aware practice for licensing exams
Exam Forecast — recurring emphasis across past papers
Moot workspace
Prepare the argument. Then prepare to defend it.
Competition results travel further than any brochure. The proposition, issues, research, memorial, and oral preparation stay in one matter — so a team that loses two members to graduation does not lose the file. Every issue keeps its own research thread and completion state, and saved authorities carry straight into the written submission.
Research each issue
Oral preparation
The bench questions, before the bench asks them.
Generated against the full record, answered in writing, then reviewed against a suggested approach.
State responsibility
Counsel, if control was effective, why does your own record show independent procurement?
Your answer
Admissibility of evidence
Does your attribution test survive if the delegation was informal?
Academic projects
Long-form work, finally in one place.
A thesis lives across a laptop, three cloud drives, and a supervisor's inbox. Projects keep sources, notes, plans, drafts, milestones, and collaborators together — and the workspace renames itself around the work.
Six kinds
Course — Readings, class notes, assignments, and study plans.
Research paper — Sources, research notes, outlines, and manuscripts.
Thesis — Literature, chapters, supervision, and milestones.
Teaching — Course materials, lecture notes, and assessments.
Clinic or competition — Case files, team research, and submissions.
General project — A flexible home for everything else.
Literature
Authorities, scholarship and literature review material.
Research notes
Reading notes, methods, findings and supervision discussions.
Milestones
Chapter goals, supervision meetings and submission dates.
Chapters
Chapter outlines, working drafts and the complete thesis.
Milestone track
Thesis milestones
People
Supervision
Activity
Thesis progress
Academic citations
Scholarship and statute, in the same answer.
Turn on academic citations for a research question and 8rney searches scholarly literature alongside statutes, judgments, and the student's own files — the difference between a seminar paper that argues and one that summarises.
OpenAlex retrieval
Law-review articles, journal work, books, working papers, policy research.
Metadata supervisors ask for
Authors, journal, year, citation count, open-access status.
A verification path
Open the record, follow the DOI, or continue to Scopus where the link exists.
Academic metadata
2024 - Modern Law Review - 64 citations - Open access
Judicial review and automated administrative decision-making
R. Iyer, M. Okonjo, L. Fenwick +2 more - DOI: 10.1111/1468-2230.12894
Scopus8rney for universities
Access your registry can run.
Control your committee can approve.
The institution owns the workspace. Administrators onboard cohorts by roster, assign roles, watch seats and activation, and revoke access when a batch graduates — without ever reading a student's work.
University administrator
National School of Law
Manage people, roles, invitations, and roster intake. Student and faculty academic work remains private.
348 / 500
69% of licence
152
available seats
331
access confirmed
17
seat reserved
1
email needs attention
Live onboarding ledger
Access and activation
Seat licence
348 / 500
People provisioned
348 active or invited people
Invitations delivered
1 email delivery needs attention
Access activated
331 active · 17 awaiting activation
Handoff register
Recent invitations
a.sharma@nsl.edu
Student
r.menon@nsl.edu
Faculty
k.das@nsl.edu
Student
Assigned access
Student
Academic study, research, practice and moot tools.
Faculty
Faculty academic tools and a professional practice profile.
University administrator
Roster, role, invitation and access administration.
Roles are assigned by an administrator before invitation. People never choose their own academic role.
Roster intake
Import an entire cohort from CSV or Excel, with a full operations history of every import.
Role-based access
Assign student, faculty, and administrator roles before a single invitation is accepted.
Invitation register
Track invitation state, activation, reserved seats, and email delivery in one place.
Separation of duties
Administrators manage people and seats. Academic work stays private to its author.
Rollout
Start with one cohort. Decide from evidence.
No campus-wide commitment to find out whether it works.
Scoping call
Thirty minutes on your cohorts, jurisdictions, and academic-integrity policy.
Workspace provisioned
Your institution gets its own workspace, administrators appointed, roles defined.
Pilot cohort
Import one batch by roster. Run a moot team or a single course before committing further.
Campus rollout
Scale seats by programme or year. Access is revoked on graduation from the same register.
Is this not just ChatGPT for law students?+
No. A general assistant produces fluent prose with no obligation to be right — invented case names are a known failure mode. Academic Mode runs on 8rney's research stack: jurisdiction-aware retrieval across statutes, case law, uploaded documents, and scholarly literature, with every claim traced to a source a student or examiner can open. Where it cannot find a verifiable source, it says so.
Does this help students cheat?+
Study Tools are built around the opposite behaviour. Socratic Drill questions the student rather than answering for them; IRAC Practice returns structural feedback on work the student wrote; Cold Call Prep rehearses defence of a position. Faculty set the policy — the tools are designed to make reasoning visible rather than to produce a finished answer.
Can university administrators read student work?+
No. Administration and academic content are deliberately separated. Administrators manage people, roles, invitations, imports, seats, and lifecycle status. Student and faculty academic work remains private to its author and the collaborators they invite.
How does access actually get managed?+
The institution owns the workspace. Administrators invite people individually or import a full roster from CSV or Excel, assign roles before invitations are accepted, watch activation and delivery in the invitation register, and see seat consumption against the licence at all times.
Which jurisdictions are supported?+
Research is jurisdiction-aware across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Singapore, with more being added. Jurisdiction controls apply to every statute and case reference in a response — useful for comparative courses and for international moots.
What do the academic citations add?+
When enabled for a research turn, 8rney searches OpenAlex for scholarly literature alongside legal sources. Results can carry authors, publication year, journal, citation count, open-access status, DOI, and links to OpenAlex or Scopus where available — so a seminar paper cites real scholarship, verifiably.
How is it licensed?+
As an institutional seat licence held by the university, not as individual student subscriptions. Seats can be scoped to a programme, a year, or the whole campus, and are reclaimed as cohorts graduate. Talk to us for pricing against your cohort size.
The cohort starting this term will use AI either way. Choose which one.
Bring us one cohort, one term, and one faculty lead. We will provision the workspace, import the roster, and let the work speak.