This semester, I’ve been experimenting with ways to use AI to enhance my work as a law professor. In the classroom, I’ve been using GPT-5 to generate images depicting the facts of the cases we cover in Criminal Procedure.
Today, I created a video explainer of one of my law review articles — Dealing with Dead Crimes, which was published in the Georgetown Law Journal in 2022. My hope is that this video explainer—and others like it—will allow my research to reach a broader audience of lawyers, law students, and non-lawyers (and also law profs who’d benefit from a brief synopsis).
I used Notebook LM to generate the video. It isn’t perfect, but it’s pretty impressive given how little work it took; I simply uploaded the article and entered a prompt with basic instructions.
The video captures the core of the article’s argument and presents it an approachable way. I’ve created new “Prof JSJ” Instagram and TikTok accounts, so that I could post the video as a reel. Over the coming days and weeks, I plan to upload similar video explainers of my other articles.
