Penn State Dickinson Law joins Harvey’s Law School Partnership Program

CARLISLE, Pa.—Penn State Dickinson Law’s Montague Law Library has partnered with Harvey, a legal domain-specific generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform used by many Fortune 500 companies and law firms, to support professional judgment and traditional workflows for students, staff, and faculty.

As one of just over two dozen institutions to join the Law School Partnership Program, Penn State Dickinson Law can assist students with learning ethical ways to employ AI as it is increasingly utilized in legal circles. The platform is expected to be deployed in classes, experiential learning, and clinics.

The agreement comes five months after the Law School began discussions with Harvey, which launched the program in August 2025.

Simplifying basic academic tasks

Harvey AI can streamline and automate common academic tasks, such as drafting emails, summarizing notes and other materials, and creating outlines. Faculty can use the platform as they prepare to teach a class.

Depending on users’ needs, Harvey AI offers several ways to query. Users can upload up to 100,000 documents per project through the Vaults feature, which lets them build study guides or create questions for retrieval practice. Faculty can upload course materials and ask Harvey AI to generate lesson plans or hypotheticals for class discussion.

Workflows, another Harvey AI feature, are prebuilt, reusable queries that users can run without creating a prompt from scratch, enabling them to automate frequently used tasks. Additionally, Harvey AI includes a Lexis+ research enhancement to query Lexis+ for basic primary-law questions.

In a blog post introducing the new partnership, Montague Law Library Director of Operations and Scholarship Rebecca Mattson reminded users to act responsibly and ethically as they navigate the platform. “Generative AI carries a risk of hallucinations, even in a closed system. Always verify your results,” she noted, reminding users that Penn State policy prohibits uploading client-sensitive or private data to Harvey.

The Montague Law Library will offer training on Harvey AI for students, staff, and faculty. They can also access Harvey Academy, which provides training and certifications, most of which are currently geared to practitioners.

As part of the program, Harvey will also facilitate collaborations between schools to share best practices and learnings, to help find the most effective ways to use the platform in legal education.