Patrick Barry is a clinical assistant professor of law and the director of digital academic initiatives at the University of Michigan Law School as well as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and the UCLA School of Law. His research focuses on persuasion, creativity, team dynamics, and artificial intelligence.
Featured Scholarship
Editing and Advocacy
- Legal Writing and Research
"Feedback Loops: Challenge & Recovery"
Illinois Bar Journal
- Legal Writing and Research
"Tone Coach"
Illinois Bar Journal
"Feedback Loops: Going Negative"
- Legal Writing and Research
Presenter, “AI Update” at the annual conference for the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys; Salt Lake City, Utah.
Presented “AI Tips and Traps,” a three-part webinar in collaboration with the Center of Academic Innovation.
Presented “AI Obstacles and Opportunities” at the State Bar of Michigan’s Annual Pro Bono Workshop.
Presented “Pro Bono, Pro AI” at the Pando Pro Bono Summit in Chicago, Illinois.
Led a workshop titled “Poise, Persuasion, and AI” and the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies.
Conducted, “Drafting, Editing, and AI,” a workshop for the International Municipal Lawyers Association.
Presented “Communication and Creativity: Generating and Sharing Information in the Age of AI,” Grand Rounds for the University of Michigan Urology Department.
Conducted a workshop called “Speaking, Listening, and AI” for state prosecutors in Mt. Clemens, Michigan.
Conducted a workshop called “Editing, Ethics, and AI” for the National Association of Appellate Court Attorneys; Chicago, IL
Conducted a workshop on giving and receiving feedback for a team of doctors at University of Michigan Medicine.
Taught an eight-week course at the University of Chicago Law School on artificial intelligence; Chicago, IL.
Conducted a workshop called “Editing, Advocacy, and AI” at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center in Ypsilanti, MI
Presented “Mistakes Were Made: Writing, Editing, and AI” at the Theodore Levin Federal Courthouse in Detroit, MI.
Selected by the Center for Academic Innovation to create a series of online courses called “AI for Lawyers.”
Taught an two-week course called “Editing and Advocacy” during the J-Term at the UCLA School of Law.
Presented “Digital Lawyering: Advocacy in the Age of AI” at the “Law and Justice in the Age of AI” conference.
Led a workshop for the Zelle Entrepreneurs at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business on pitching ideas to customers and investors.
Led a pubic-speaking workshop at the Life Skills Conference put on by the Blavin Scholars, a program designed to help Michigan students who have spent time in the foster care system.
Led a self-advocacy workshop for the Black Law Students Association at the University of Chicago Law School.
Conducted a workshop for the International Municipal Lawyers Association.
Taught in ‘Saturdays in the D,’ a skills-enrichment program for residents of Detroit.
Led a workshop at the Shriver Center for Poverty Law on how to give and receive high-quality feedback; Chicago, Illinois.
Presented “Discovery and Delivery” at the University of Chicago Law School.
Led a workshop at the Zell Lurie Institute on how to pitch investors; Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Led a workshop at the Theodore Levin Courthouse on judicial writing; Detroit, Michigan.
Conducted a multipart workshop called “Policy and Persuasion” for the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines.
Conducted a workshop called “Good with Words” for the Association of International Young Lawyers.
Presented “Advocacy Hunt” as part of “Learning to Look, Learning to Write” at the University of Chicago Smart Museum of Art.
Presented “The Discipline of Breaks” as part of the Michigan Online Visionary Educators (MOVE) series.
Taught a two-week course called Editing and Advocacy at the UCLA School of Law.
Presented “Good with Words” to the Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy at Michigan Medicine.
Presented “Sentences Nobody Else Can Write” to the Black Law Students Association at the University of Chicago Law School.
Presented “Poise and Pitching” to the Zell Entrepreneurs at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.
Presented “Feedback Loops” at the Annual Appellate Defender Fall Training, Ann Arbor.
Won a Rackham Faculty Allies Diversity Grant to create “Mistakes Were Made,” a workshop series designed to teach law students how to productively respond to failure.
Won a grant from the XR Innovation Fund to develop “Feedback Loops,” a virtual reality experience designed to teach lawyers and law students how to give and get better feedback.
