Robert Crown Law Library

Events

The events on this page are facilitated by the Robert Crown Law Library. All events are limited to the Stanford Law School community.

Past events and materials

Week by week

What’s coming up

The next three weeks on the library’s AI calendar, soonest first, all times Pacific. Most of these are AI Curiosity Corner drop-in hours — no booking, no agenda — and you can put any of them on your own calendar in one click.

The standing hours

Three times a week, in person: Mondays 12:30–1:30pm, Tuesdays 1–2pm, and Thursdays 12–1pm PT, in the Reference Office on the first floor of the Robert Crown Law Library.
Trainings and Zoom sessions: Scheduled through the year at varying times. The month grid at the foot of this page carries the current dates and any Zoom links.
By appointment, any time: Email library@law.stanford.edu and we will find a time that works.

Drop-in, one to one, no appointment

What the AI Curiosity Corner is

Office hours for AI. A librarian, a screen, and whatever you are actually stuck on. You do not need to book, you do not need to prepare, and you do not need to know what to ask.

We run these because most AI questions are too small to justify an email and too specific to answer in a workshop. “Which of these tools should I use for this?” “Why is it giving me this?” “Is this allowed?” “Can it do the boring part of this task?” Those are exactly the right questions to bring, and ten minutes with someone who has already hit the same wall usually settles them.

Who it is for

Everyone at Stanford Law School — students, faculty, and staff — at every level of experience. Complete beginners are the people we most want to see. So are people who have been using these tools daily for a year and have hit something odd.

How it works

Turn up, in the room or on the Zoom link, and say what you are trying to do. There is no queue ticket and no intake form. Sessions are an hour, but most questions take a fraction of that, so come for as long as you need and leave when you have your answer.

What to bring

Nothing, or the thing that is not working. A prompt that went sideways, a tool you cannot get access to, a task you suspect could be automated, a piece of output you do not trust. Real work beats a hypothetical every time.

Things people actually come in with

Which AI tool fits a particular task — and when the answer is “none of them.”
Getting access to a licensed tool, and what the license does and does not cover.
Prompting that is nearly working, and why the output keeps drifting.
Checking whether output can be trusted, and how to verify a citation.
Building something small: a custom GPT, a skill, a reusable prompt, a workflow.
What Stanford Law School’s policies permit for coursework and for client-facing work.

Zero judgment, and no question is too basic. If it turns out to be a bigger project than an hour allows, we will book proper time with you.

Back to the schedule Can’t make any of them? Email us for an appointment →

Workshops

AI trainings

Trainings appear in the schedule at the top of this page alongside the drop-in hours, and on the month grid below. Materials and recordings from past trainings are in the archive.

See what is coming up Past events and materials →

Everything, in one place

Full event calendar

The month grid, for looking further ahead than the list above. It is the same calendar the Curiosity Corner hours come from.

Need something else? For AI tools, access, legal research, or technical assistance, email library@law.stanford.edu.