Michael Murray
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Michael Murray is a University of Kentucky law professor whose research and teaching address artificial intelligence, legal practice and legal education. His work includes AI-assisted learning, professional supervision of generative systems, copyright and synthetic evidence. The university identifies him as University Research Professor and Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at its J. David Rosenberg College of Law.[1][2]
Roles and affiliations
Murray has taught full-time at Kentucky since 2018, following a visiting appointment in 2016–2017. His earlier teaching included legal writing, professional responsibility and advanced legal research. Before entering academic teaching, he practiced commercial, intellectual-property and products-liability litigation at Bryan Cave in St. Louis.[1]
A July 2025 university interview identifies him as principal investigator of the Artificial Intelligence and the Law project. It records his selection as a 2025–26 University Research Professor. Murray described the award as supporting access to additional AI services and larger studies, alongside collaboration across academic disciplines.[3]
Contributions and positions
AI in legal education
In September 2026, UKNow described Murray and researchers in the AI and the Law Lab as exploring assistance for legal work and law-student instruction. Its account reports an early tutoring study supported by the university's CURATE research program, in which participants improved their understanding of upper-level legal concepts. The report presents this as proof-of-concept research.[2]
Murray emphasizes that students must develop their own judgment and expertise. His teaching asks students to identify competing arguments and address legal questions for which established precedent may be lacking. He describes deepfakes as a challenge for evidence law and AI assistance as a possible means of improving day-to-day legal work.[2]
Practice and supervision
In the July 2025 interview, Murray traced his intensified focus on generative AI to the arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022. He described testing models and explaining how to use and supervise them as central aims of his research. His forecasts about the technology's future importance are his assessment.[3]
A February 2026 law-school announcement describes his book Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law: Mastering Generative and Agentic AI as a practitioner and student guide. The announcement identifies retrieval-augmented generation, context engineering and multi-step agentic workflows among its topics. These are the institution's description of the book's scope.[4]
Selected works
- Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law: Mastering Generative and Agentic AI (January 2026) — book; the law-school announcement provides an accessible description.[4]
- Tools Do Not Create: Human Authorship in the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (2024) — article listed in his faculty bibliography.[1]
- Deceptive Exploitation: Deepfakes, the Rights of Publicity and Privacy, and Trademark Law (2025) — article listed in the same bibliography.[1]
Coverage
- July 2025 university research interview.
- September 2026 university account of AI-law research and teaching.
Related articles
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 University of Kentucky, Michael Murray, faculty biography and bibliography. Reviewed October 12, 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Erin Wickey, UKNow, “UK researcher helps shape the future of AI in legal practice and education,” September 16, 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Erin Wickey, UK Research, “Michael D. Murray: 2025-26 University Research Professor Q&A,” July 15, 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Shawntaye Hopkins, University of Kentucky College of Law, “Law Professor and AI Expert Publishes Book on Artificial Intelligence and the Law,” February 6, 2026.