DraftSmart: Ethical Legal Drafting with AI

DraftSmart offers practical learning on how to draft legal documents with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence. As AI tools become increasingly integrated into legal practice, it is essential for law students and young lawyers to adapt to this technology while maintaining effectiveness, ethical boundaries, and professional standards.

This course focuses on using AI as an assistive drafting tool, not as a replacement for legal skill.

“It is designed for learners who want to draft smarter, think critically, and stay future-ready in the evolving legal landscape.”

TOPICS IT WILL COVER –

1) Human Judgment vs AI Assistance

2) AI-Assisted Drafting of Complaints, Notices, and Plaints

3) Prompting Techniques for Better Drafting Output

4) Editing, Proofreading & Ensuring Legal Accuracy

5) Ethical and Professional Standards in AI Usage

6) Case Study-Based Learning

Meet Your Mentor: Adv. Arundhati Thakur

Advocate Arundhati Thakur is a B.A. LL.B. graduate and an LL.M. (Corporate Law) scholar at IILM University, Greater Noida. She brings hands-on experience in legal research, teaching, and structured legal writing, with a keen focus on how AI can be used responsibly to enhance legal drafting—without compromising legal reasoning or ethics.

She has authored the published paper “Opacity, Equality and Political Finance: Evaluating the Supreme Court’s 2024 Verdict on Electoral Bonds” in the LawFoyer International Journal of Doctrinal Legal Research and has an upcoming international publication on ICC–ICJ non-enforcement and global power asymmetries. Her academic and conference engagements reflect a strong focus on constitutional values, democratic accountability, and global governance, which meaningfully shape her research and drafting approach.