NUS Law advances AI-enabled legal education with Harvey and Lucio partnerships

As AI transforms legal research and practice, the NUS Faculty of Law (NUS Law) has become the first law school in Singapore to provide its students and faculty with access to Harvey and Lucio, two leading AI platforms used by law firms and in-house legal teams worldwide.

The partnerships will give the NUS Law community access to both platforms, enabling them to explore how AI-enabled tools support legal research, education and scholarship while developing a critical understanding of their appropriate and responsible use. Students and faculty will gain access to both AI legal platforms from the new academic year, AY2026/2027. Access will be facilitated by NUS Libraries, which will also conduct training on the platforms while incorporating them into ongoing information literacy programmes.

Harvey and Lucio’s AI products are designed to support a wide range of legal workflows, including legal research, drafting, document review, summarisation, contract analysis and due diligence. By making these platforms available across the school, NUS Law aims to equip its community with tools that can improve efficiency and productivity, while preparing students for a profession increasingly impacted by AI.

Students will not only hear about AI in the abstract but experience first-hand how it can support different aspects of legal work. For example, they may use the AI tools to break down a legal problem, summarise lengthy documents, compare arguments, generate a first draft of a memo, or explore how a clause or position could be framed. Importantly, students will then need to review the output critically: checking for accuracy, identifying gaps, testing it against legal authorities and refining it using their own legal judgment.

The collaborations form part of NUS Law’s strategic approach to preparing students for an evolving legal profession. Through early, hands-on experience with technology used in legal practice, students will gain a deeper understanding of how AI is changing the work of lawyers, alongside the opportunities, limitations and responsibilities that accompany its use.

The platforms’ research capabilities will also enhance cutting-edge research conducted by NUS Law faculty, while providing valuable insights into AI use in student learning to support pedagogical innovations that build deeper reasoning and judgment essential to legal practice.

Professor Andrew Simester, Dean of NUS Law, noted how AI is increasingly influencing how legal work is carried out, and that legal education must prepare students to engage meaningfully with these developments. The collaborations with Harvey and Lucio form an important part of NUS Law’s broader efforts to equip our students for the future of legal practice.

He added, “Giving students access to AI tools is not about replacing the foundational skills and judgement that lie at the heart of legal education. Rather, it is about ensuring that our students become familiar with how such tools may be used and understand that their outputs must be assessed critically and responsibly. We are very grateful to Harvey and Lucio for supporting us in this endeavour.”

“As AI reshapes the legal industry, law schools have an important responsibility to prepare students for how legal work will evolve,” said Mr Winston Weinberg, CEO and Co-founder of Harvey. “By integrating advanced legal AI into teaching, learning, and research, NUS Law is helping ensure students graduate with the skills and judgement needed to use these technologies thoughtfully, responsibly, and effectively in practice.”

“The lawyers coming out of NUS will enter a profession already shaped by AI. The question is whether they arrive prepared,” said Mr Vasu Aggarwal, Co-Founder of Lucio AI. “With this partnership, we’re making sure they do. We will equip them with the skills to use AI effectively, challenge it intelligently, and deliver defensible work they can stand behind from day one.”

This story was first published on 8 June 2026 on NUS News. Click here for more NUS News stories.