Where law students and academics get hands-on experience using AI models and building applications for legal education and research — often in partnership with students themselves.
“Our aim is not to replace existing tools, but to investigate whether generative AI allows educators to build alternatives that better serve students.”
The Legal Innovation Lab sits within the Law & Intelligent Systems Lab at Western Sydney University’s School of Law. Academics here build generative-AI educational tools that support legal learning while keeping student wellbeing and privacy front of mind.
The work asks a practical question: can educators use generative AI to build customisable learning tools that address the limitations of commercial platforms — their cost, and how well they fit the way a subject is actually taught? As the team puts it, the research is about understanding how generative AI can function as a “technical collaborator.”
Students aren’t just users. They take part in designing and testing the tools, gaining hands-on experience with AI models and application development along the way. The apps are refined as student feedback comes in and as the curriculum changes.
The tools we’ve released so far. Each one is free to try in your browser.
A real-time multiplayer game where students race characters toward the correct answer while competing with classmates. Teachers set their own question sets, so it can be tailored to any topic — a low-cost, customisable take on the classroom quiz. There’s a play-against-AI mode for solo practice and a demo to try straight away.
Open thehomerun.app
A game for practising a skill that matters more every day: auditing AI-generated writing. Each round presents an AI-style passage with deliberate factual errors slipped in, and players use critical thinking to spot the hallucinations. It mirrors how you’d review and fact-check real generative-AI output.
Open hallucinationlab.appWe collaborate with students, educators and partners on AI tools for legal education and research. If you’d like to work with the Lab, get in touch.