The Institute for Constitutional AI Law

Mission

Advancing Constitutional Principles in the Age of AI

The Institute for Constitutional AI Law is an independent think tank advancing constitutional principles in an age of technological transformation. We bring together leaders from law, technology, government, academia, and industry to examine the questions that will shape the future of society and help ensure that innovation strengthens liberty, justice, and the rule of law.

We believe the future of technology will not be determined by innovation alone. It will be determined by the principles that govern its use. Our mission is to shape that future.

Research Initiatives

Democratization of Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is redistributing knowledge, expertise, judgment, and decision-making capabilities historically concentrated within professions and institutions. The Institute studies the legal and constitutional consequences of that shift, including access to justice, professional regulation, individual autonomy, institutional authority, and the governance of increasingly capable consumer AI.

Global Justice Intelligence Project

An international study of how justice systems are integrating artificial intelligence across citizen access, legal information, decision support, court administration, prosecutorial functions, judicial assistance, and adjudication. The project maps how legal intelligence is being distributed between individuals and institutions and asks how that redistribution changes meaningful access to justice, the exercise of judgment, and human responsibility.

AI & Meaningful Access to Justice

Examining whether AI can narrow the gap between access to legal information and access to legal judgment. This work studies self-represented litigants, consumer legal AI, court restrictions, professional regulation, reliability, disclosure, and the constitutional and rule-of-law implications of AI becoming a practical means of participation in the justice system.

Human Identity in the AI Era

Examining ownership, authenticity, control, and economic use of human identity as voice, likeness, biometrics, data, predictive profiles, digital replicas, autonomous agents, and tokenized identity assets become increasingly programmable and transferable. The project asks whether existing legal regimes can adequately govern identity when different layers of the human self are controlled by different actors under different laws.

AI Governance at the Point of Use

Studying how broad principles of responsible AI become operational rules for actual human use. The project focuses on tool selection, data use, confidentiality, verification, supervision, disclosure, accountability, and how institutions can evaluate the next AI tool without rewriting governance from scratch.The Institute translates this research into practical governance frameworks, educational programs, and implementation models for the legal profession and justice institutions.

Upcoming Work

Building the Conversation

The Institute is in its founding year. Our initial work is focused on publishing thoughtful commentary, developing practical frameworks, and convening conversations about constitutional law and emerging technologies. As the Institute grows, these efforts will expand into broader educational programs, publications, and public dialogue.

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Leadership

About the Founder

Michelle May O’Neil is an attorney, legal technology founder, researcher, and former senior shareholder and co-founder of O’Neil Wysocki, now leading the Institute for Constitutional AI Law, Concierra Technology, and Concierra Legal. A Board Certified Texas family law and appellate attorney with more than three decades in practice, she has handled 195+ appellate matters, 55 matters before the Texas Supreme Court, and 37 jury trials. She is admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court, where she has handled one filing. She served as adjunct professor at Baylor University School of Law.

Her work sits at the intersection of law, technology, and institutional change that the Institute was founded to explore. It asks how is artificial intelligence reshaping legal practice, professional responsibility, and access to justice? She is the creator of the Identity Stack, a seven-layer model for governing identity in the AI-era, debuted at SXSW 2026 and taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; a featured voice on ethics and professionalism at the Texas Center for Legal Ethics; and author of the forthcoming The Fifth Move. Her commentary on the constitutional questions of emerging technology appears through the Institute and in her essays on Substack.

Michelle O'Neil founded the Institute on a conviction three decades of practice made unavoidable: the future of technology will be determined not by innovation alone, but by the principles that govern its use.

O’Neil’s current research focuses on the democratization of intelligence and the institutional consequences of AI capabilities moving directly into the hands of individuals. She leads the Institute’s Global Justice Intelligence Project. She is also developing her Groundswell Thesis, a framework for understanding how bottom-up consumer adoption of AI can force legal and institutional change before formal governance catches up.

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