Is 8rney Academic just ChatGPT for law students?

No. Academic Mode runs on 8rney's research stack: jurisdiction-aware retrieval across statutes, case law, uploaded documents, and scholarly literature, with every claim traced to a source a student or examiner can open. Where it cannot find a verifiable source, it says so.

Does an AI study tool help students cheat?

Study Tools are built around the opposite behaviour. Socratic Drill questions the student rather than answering for them, IRAC Practice returns structural feedback on work the student wrote, and Cold Call Prep rehearses defence of a position. Faculty set the policy.

Can university administrators read student work?

No. Administration and academic content are separated. Administrators manage people, roles, invitations, imports, seats, and lifecycle status. Student and faculty academic work remains private to its author and the collaborators they invite.

How does university access get managed?

The institution owns the workspace. Administrators invite people individually or import a full roster from CSV or Excel, assign roles before invitations are accepted, track activation and delivery in the invitation register, and see seat consumption against the licence.

Which jurisdictions does 8rney Academic support?

Research is jurisdiction-aware across India, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Singapore, with more being added. Jurisdiction controls apply to every statute and case reference in a response.

How is 8rney Academic licensed to universities?

As an institutional seat licence held by the university rather than individual student subscriptions. Seats can be scoped to a programme, a year, or the whole campus, and are reclaimed as cohorts graduate.

Academic Mode

The whole degree,not one assignment.

Ten study tools, a moot workspace, and scholarly research on the same jurisdiction-aware stack. It presses on your weakest step instead of handing over the conclusion.

I'm a student I represent a university

Study Tools

Research

Practice

Case Brief

Socratic Drill

Cold Call Prep

IRAC Practice

Build

Legal Writing

Outline Builder

Flashcards

Plan

Study Plan

Bar Prep

Exam Forecast

Socratic drillIRAC practiceCold call prepMoot workspaceAcademic projectsScholarly citationsSocratic drillIRAC practiceCold call prepMoot workspaceAcademic projectsScholarly citations

For students

Do the thinking. Keep the advantage.

Reading, research, revision, and advocacy become active work. The tool shows you the next question rather than removing the need to answer it.

Start a 14-day student trial

Socratic drill

The tool asks. The student reasons.

Each answer opens the next question, pressing on the weakest step instead of handing over a conclusion.

Defend the rule · test the exception · cite the authority

IRAC practice

Feedback on structure, not a ghostwritten answer.

Students submit their own analysis and receive precise feedback on the issue, rule, application, and conclusion.

Student-authored work · section-level feedback

Cold call prep

Rehearse the position before class.

Students explain the case, take follow-ups, and learn where their understanding stops being defensible.

Case context · faculty-style follow-ups

Moot workspace

One case file from proposition to podium.

Issues, authorities, memorial drafts, and oral preparation stay connected across the competition cycle.

Issue threads · memorial · oral preparation

Study that requires an answer

The model questions the student, then tests the reasoning against authority.

Why can Parliament amend the Constitution but not destroy its basic structure?
Take the argument, not the conclusion.

Moot, end to end

One spine keeps the team moving.

Documents
Issues
Research
Memorial
Oral prep

Academic citations

Metadata that survives scrutiny.

Modern Law Review · 2024Judicial review and automated decision-makingDOI verified · open access · 64 citations

A private research library

Readings, authorities, drafts, and project context stay organized around the student’s own work.

From first reading to final defence.

Every mode shares the same research foundation, project context, and source trail, and adapts to the work in front of you.

Enter Academic Mode

Guided study

Ten tools designed around active reasoning.

Brief cases, build outlines, practise IRAC, prepare for cold calls, and plan study from material you already use.

Study Tools

Research

Practice

Case Brief

Socratic Drill

Cold Call Prep

IRAC Practice

Build

Legal Writing

Outline Builder

Flashcards

Plan

Study Plan

Bar Prep

Exam Forecast

Moot preparation

Research, memorial, and oral prep share the same issues.

Move from proposition to podium while every issue keeps its own authorities, arguments, and counter-authorities.

Republic of Astoria v. BellarFor ApplicantJessup 2027

Documents

Issues

3Research

Memorial

Oral Prep

Research each issue

Jurisdiction of the CourtComplete · 12 cites

State responsibilityResearching…

Admissibility of evidenceNot researched

Find counter-authoritiesExplain the dissentIndian cases on this pointWhat do the other parties argue?

Academic projects

The workspace speaks the language of the work.

Course, thesis, clinic, and competition projects adapt their vocabulary and milestones to your academic context.

CourseResearch paperThesis or dissertationTeachingClinic or competitionGeneral project

Literature

Authorities, scholarship and literature review material.

Research notes

Reading notes, methods, findings and supervision discussions.

Milestones

Chapter goals, supervision meetings and submission dates.

Chapters

Chapter outlines, working drafts and the complete thesis.

Milestone track

Thesis milestones

People

Supervision

Activity

Thesis progress

Scholarly research

Scholarship appears with metadata you can verify.

Academic citations carry authorship, journal, year, citation count, access status, DOI, and originating index.

Academic metadata

2024 - Modern Law Review - 64 citations - Open access

Judicial review and automated administrative decision-making

R. Iyer, M. Okonjo, L. Fenwick +2 more - DOI: 10.1111/1468-2230.12894

Scopus

Every tool that answers for a student takes something from them. This one is built the other way round.

Preserving the lawyer’s most important IP: their brain.

For universities

Build the outcomes a modern law school is judged by.

Academic Mode is licensed to the institution, never switched on as a personal preference. You assign student, faculty, and administrator roles, and administrators manage people and seats without reading anyone's work.

Book an institutional demo

Graduates ready for AI-shaped practice

Students learn to question, verify, cite, and defend AI-assisted work, which is what practice will expect of them.

Moot teams prepared beyond the memorial

Issue mapping, authority research, memorial drafting, and oral rehearsal remain connected, producing teams that argue with greater consistency under pressure.

One product, two ways in.

Can an individual student use Academic Mode?: Yes. Students with a verified institution or organization email can start an independent Academic Mode account and try the full student experience before subscribing.
Is this just ChatGPT for law students?: No. Academic Mode uses 8rney’s jurisdiction-aware research stack across statutes, case law, uploaded documents, and scholarly literature. Material claims resolve to sources a student or examiner can open.
Can university administrators read student work?: No. Administrators manage people, roles, invitations, roster imports, seats, and lifecycle status. Academic work stays private to its author and invited collaborators.
How do universities license it?: A university can license seats for a programme, year, or campus. Seats can be reassigned as cohorts change, with a rollout scoped to the institution’s policies.

What it costs a student.

Fourteen days free with an institution email or Gmail, then less than a casebook a term. If your university licences it, you pay nothing at all.

First 14 days freeInstitution email or Gmail. No card.

₹500a month in India, or the local rate below

A year costs ten months.
Where you study	Monthly	Yearly
India	₹500	₹5,000
United Kingdom	£5	£50
Europe	€5	€50
United States and elsewhere	$5	$50

What that includes

Ten study tools: case briefs, Socratic drill, IRAC practice, cold call prep
The moot workspace, from proposition to podium
Scholarly search with authorship, journal, DOI, and access status
Course, thesis, clinic, and competition projects, each in its own vocabulary
A private research library that keeps your readings and authorities together

Start free

Cancel from your account. Your work stays yours either way.

If your university licences Academic Mode, you do not pay this. Seats sit with the institution and move with the year group. Talk to us about a cohort.

Start with your own next question.

Try Academic Mode free for 14 days with an institution email or Gmail. With Gmail, enter your institution name and select Student or Faculty. This email will be exclusive to Academic Mode.