The core features of the eBook, which make it a unique, innovative tool, are the following: • Its interactive PDF Format: Students will be able to highlight, annotate, and search the full text. The book will be compatible with common PDF readers and learning platforms. • Text-to-Audio Functionality: Each case will be available in audio format to support inclusive and multimodal learning. • Case Accessibility and Referencing: Each case will include a hyperlink to the original source (e.g. SAFLII or Constitutional Court website). • Linked Content: Relevant academic journal articles, legislation, and contextual resources could be embedded or linked per case. • Glossaries: – General Glossary: Common terms explained in accessible language. – Specialised Legal Glossary: Definitions of key legal terms related to specific branches of law. – IsiZulu Terminology Glossary: A parallel glossary is being developed to support multilingual engagement and decolonial approaches to legal education. Project 3: Metaverse Project In an ongoing effort to align with UJ’s strategic vision of the use of technology (4IR) in teaching and learning with societal impact, the Faculty of Law’s Ikamva Initiative, funded by Co-Impact (project on developing a new generation of Women Legal Leaders in Africa), is engaged in an innovative project to support the teaching and learning of law students. Using AI tools, the Ikamva Initiative is educating students how to deal with everyday African-contextualised legal challenges and characterise the everyday lives of most South African citizens. These challenges include (but are not limited to) Gender-based violence (GBV), Road Accident Fund (RAF) and Unfair discrimination in the workplace. The AI tools support and enable students to have open conversations about these challenging cases that impact society in a safe environment. The AI tools support and enhance clinical legal education, which forms part of the law curriculum, as they provide students with an opportunity to apply their interviewing and communication skills with clients. The students also get to engage with the client, which provides the students with an opportunity to apply their critical legal thinking skills to be able to prompt the clients with relevant questions, with the objective of providing correct advice. This simulation of interacting with a client provides students with an opportunity to have the practical legal education which prepares them for real-world cases and how they will have to handle them. (The Faculty of Law presentation at UJ’s showcasing excellence in innovation, technology, and AI event on 08 September 2025, prepared by: Dr H Myburgh, Dr C Fawole and Mr E Hart). Clinical legal education is an important component of teaching and learning; therefore, it is critical to focus on enhancing the approaches and methodologies that are aimed at improving the experience. The use of AI tools in this space represents a breakthrough in teaching and learning that will shape clinical education practices. This innovation will impact and influence pedagogical knowledge and how it is integrated in clinical legal education. Conclusion These three projects demonstrate that new teaching and learning approaches incorporating the use of technology are a possibility in legal education. These projects provide an insight into the possibilities available to enhance practical clinical teaching and learning in law, while advancing the notions of inclusivity, transformation and the use of technology in legal education. These advancements provide opportunities for new approaches to teaching and learning law students and present an opportunity for the use of technology to the benefit of society. 45 A Journey of Innovation
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