Singapore Management University (SMU) today announced that SMU’s Yong Pung How School of Law is joining Legora’s Legal AI Scholars Program, becoming the first university in Asia to do so.

Under the partnership, SMU’s law faculty will receive licenses and training on the platform, with access expanding to students and courses as SMU integrates Legora into its teaching.

SMU joins a growing community of Legal AI Scholars Program institutions that includes Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, the University of Chicago Law School, Cornell Law School, the University of Texas School of Law, Boston University School of Law, and the University of San Francisco School of Law.

“Technology literacy is already embedded across SMU’s programmes; this partnership deepens the integration of AI competencies specifically within legal education,” said Professor Lee Pey Woan, Dean of SMU Yong Pung How School of Law. “Our students will practise law in a profession where AI is not optional but foundational; at the same time, we have introduced safeguards to preserve the rigorous development of foundational legal skills and to cultivate the sound and ethical judgement that will remain a distinctive human value-add to the profession.”…

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