LIJDLR

TRANSFORMATION IN LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Madhavi More, Assistant Professor at CHIRST Deemed to be University Lavasa Campus, Pune (India)

Tejaswi R. Avhad, Principal at Balaji Law College Tathawade, Pune (India)

Legal education, traditionally dependent upon classroom teaching, case analysis, legal reasoning, and critical interpretation, is now witnessing the growing integration of AI-powered tools for research, drafting, data analysis, and academic assistance. The research paper delves into understanding of AI and legal education individually and its intersection to explore the requirements and limits of both. This paper discusses in detail practical challenges as well as opportunities of advancement of AI in legal profession. The study explores how AI can enhance accessibility to legal information, improve research efficiency, promote personalized learning, and assist in developing practical legal skills. Simultaneously, it critically analyses concern such as overdependence on AI, plagiarism, hallucination of case laws, lack of reliability and accuracy, data privacy issues, and the possible decline of essential advocacy skills like critical thinking, interpretation, and analytical reasoning among students. It reviews the role of concerned statutory bodies to comprehend possible ways to use AI Application in the legal education.  This paper explores the role of international bodies like UNESCO and best practices adopted by other countries for smooth integration of AI in legal education. Considering novelty and evolving nature of the subject, researcher has adopted exploratory research model based on doctrinal and analytical approaches using secondary sources, including books, research articles, reports, case laws, and policy documents. The paper concludes that the balanced and regulated integration of AI in legal education is needed to ensure that AI advancement strengthens, rather than weakens, the core values and objectives of the legal profession.

📄 Type 🔍 Information
Research Paper LawFoyer International Journal of Doctrinal Legal Research (LIJDLR), Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 2792–2813.
🔗 Creative Commons © Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License . © Authors, 2026. All rights reserved.