Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice: Navigating the complexities and embracing the future

Law schools and faculties are grappling with how to incorporate technology into their curriculum development, and practitioners are confronting unprecedented doctrinal questions raised by AI and digitalisation. Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice is a collection of contributions by 13 authors and edited by Carika Keulder that addresses the impact of new digital technologies on the way that law is taught and practiced. 

Structured around two main themes, Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice examines, firstly, the risks to traditional law teaching and the opportunities that this technology affords for enhancing the communication of key competencies and, secondly, the impact on various areas of legal practice - labour law, the law of delict, intellectual property law and the law of evidence.

Technological Disruption in Legal Education and Practice is a timely contribution to legal scholarship and jurisprudence and indispensable reading for legal academics, practitioners, and policymakers in South Africa. The book provides a grounded and contextually rich contribution that will also resonate internationally.

Reviewer’s Comments

“... an ambitious, coherent, and well-researched volume [that avoids] the fragmentation of many edited collections by maintaining a clear thematic thread. Pedagogy and doctrine are [...] woven together throughout the work, illustrating how the way we teach law shapes how future lawyers engage with substantive legal challenges, while the adaptation of law, in turn, informs curricular and strategic priorities.” 
Professor Juanitta Calitz; Department of Mercantile Law, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

“... a timely, relevant, and intellectually rich [work] that addresses critical issues in legal education and practice.”
Professor Theunis Roux, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia