A necessary review of Brazilian legal education: reflections on academic processes in the face of the reality of generative artificial intelligence.

Revista Portuguesa de Bioética

Resumen

Brazilian legal education faces the challenge of integrating generative artificial intelligence without abandoning critical thinking, ethics, and humanistic training. More than adopting tools, it must prepare jurists to understand, regulate, and question the technology already transforming law.

Introducción

This article proposes a critical review of Brazilian legal education, historically linked to European models and restricted to elites until the mid-20th century, in light of the pedagogical crisis of the 21st century and the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI). It analyzes criticisms of excessively theoretical and fragmented training, which fails to develop practical skills and critical thinking, and examines the National Curriculum Guidelines (2018/2021), which prioritize active methodologies, theory-practice integration, and competencies for contemporary challenges. It discusses the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Law, exemplified by AI in the Brazilian Supreme Court (MARIA) and the Superior Court of Justice (STJ Logos), and the ethical and pedagogical dilemmas of GAI. It advocates for its ethical integration into legal education, aligned with SDGs 4 and 9 and UNESCO guidelines, to train prepared and critical jurists.

Legal education; Generative artificial intelligence; Fourth Industrial Revolution; Curriculum reform; Ethical challenges

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