NORA NAHR

Legal Education in the Era of Digital Transformation: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Students' Learning Processes and Digital Literacy

Digital transformation has recently led to noticeable changes in the education sector at the individual, organizational, and societal levels. New technologies and innovative digital teaching and learning formats — such as the flipped classroom, virtual teaching, gamification, and artificial intelligence — have altered the way, how students, instructors, and other actors in the education sector process knowledge. Examples of this transformation include students participating in online or hybrid learning formats, taking exams online from their own devices, and using AI tools to support their learning process. Therefore, it is crucial to examine how these methods can be successfully applied in legal education, and which competencies are required to use such technologies  (i.e., digital literacy) This talk addresses these questions and presents insights from an ongoing research project that implemented a chatbot for legal education. The chatbot is designed to improve law students’ argumentation skills in systematic case analysis. Thus, it is demonstrated how digitalization could be a valuable tool for processing knowledge in legal education and what implications it have for the field.

Nora Nahr is professor for Legal Informatics esp. Natural Language Processing at the University of Passau in Germany. Her research interests include the fields of artificial intelligence and knowledge management and their adoption and application in organizational settings. She investigates efficient modes of collaboration to support knowledge work in organizational hybrid teams and the use of natural language processing for legal scenarios. Nora Nahr's research has been published in publication outlets including the Journal of Information Technology, the Electronic Markets, the Journal of Knowledge Management and the European Conference on Information Systems.