Anyone writing seriously about AI and the law learns to watch certain bylines. Michael Murray’s is one of them, and his latest book just moved to the top of my reading list.
Legal Issues of Generative and Agentic Artificial Intelligence (July 2026) is hot off the presses. It tracks the fastest-moving questions in American law, from the ChatGPT moment through the arrival of autonomous agents that research, negotiate, draft, and file on their own.
It’s the third in a series worth owning complete:
- Artificial Intelligence for Researchers (June 2026) — not just for lawyers
- Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law: Mastering Generative and Agentic AI (January 2026)
Murray is a senior law professor at the University of Kentucky, where he leads its AI and the Law Project. Blessedly, despite the professorship, his prose is highly readable — perhaps because he was a litigator and federal law clerk before he was an academic. He writes for people who practice law, not just people who study it.
Make room for all three on your bookshelf. Highly recommended.