Singapore Management University’s law school will give faculty and students access to Legora’s agentic legal AI platform, aligning classroom instruction with tools used by major law firms.
SMU’s Yong Pung How School of Law is the first Asian university to join Legora’s Legal AI Scholars Program, providing faculty licenses and training on Legora.
Access will expand to students and courses as SMU integrates the platform into teaching, so students learn the tooling lawyers use in practice.
# What happened
Singapore Management University's Yong Pung How School of Law announced it has joined Legora's Legal AI Scholars Program, becoming the first university in Asia to do so. The partnership gives SMU law faculty licences and training on Legora's platform, with access to students and courses to expand as the school integrates the tool into teaching.
# Why it matters
SMU has existing technology-oriented legal initiatives: a law and technology track introduced in 2023, the Centre for Digital Law (CDL) launched in 2024, and a multi-year project begun in 2025 to build an open empirical legal database supported by Singapore's Ministry of Law. The Legora partnership brings practical, platform-level AI experience into that trajectory.
# What Legora provides
Heather Paterson, Legora's APJ vice president, framed the move as closing a preparation gap between schools that train students on AI tools and those that do not. Legora has been expanding its regional presence in Asia-Pacific with offices in Singapore and other cities.
# What SMU says
SMU's dean, Professor Lee Pey Woan, noted that the university already embeds technology literacy across its programmes and that the partnership deepens AI competencies specific to legal education. He described AI as foundational to future legal practice while saying SMU will introduce safeguards to preserve core legal skills and ethical judgement.
# Practical implications for students and faculty
# Context inside SMU's recent moves
SMU renamed its law school in 2021 and built a law-and-technology track in 2023. The Centre for Digital Law, set up in 2024, coordinates work across law, computer science and digital humanities. The CDL's 2025 project to create Singapore's first open empirical legal database aims to strengthen legal data infrastructure for the digital era. In June 2026, SMU hosted the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law—the first time that conference took place in Asia.
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