Academic environments are becoming intellectually challenging as AI invades students’ intellectual choices. Some students struggle to grasp basic socio-legal teachings in college, as AI threatens instructors’ expertise/knowledge of courses taught. Increasingly, students’ attention is fixed on AI rather than instructors’ knowledge and invaluable interactions. Although highly effective and relevant to academic progress, AI emits inaccurate, unreliable, insufficient, unverified data from an uncensored cyber space. Such unreliable information, which challenges/contradicts professors’ knowledge and expertise, could mislead students, with false knowledge and incorrect answers. An example–my student cheated in an exam and insisted that I adopt AI’s wrong answer, which contradicted my teaching. Therefore, with a sociolegal critical analysis methodology through structured sociolegal reflections on law, courts and society, I respond to Gray, Edsall and Parapadaski’s call– "universities must attend to the broader sociological risks posed by the rise of AI". Hence, this presentation, a theoretical framework, introduces my socio-judicial pedagogy, which explores a cycle of law’s historical, cultural, social and technoscientific impacts on real situations, while critically analyzing law’s interactions with people, society and social institutions to create social change. This socio-judicial approach emanated from my socio-judicialism theory (a new theory advancing socio-legal jurisprudence, introduced in my dissertation for socio-judicial reforms), emphasizes the crucial need for early intervention through a socio-judicial pedagogy (SJP) that prepares students for their future in applying critical analysis to law’s impact in real situations for social change and democratic development. This theory seeks to mobilize social and judicial philosophies of teaching that ensures democracy-impacting change.

Authors:
Ari Niki-Tobi, Calvin University, United States

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Ari Niki-Tobi is a scholar, researcher and philosopher. She developed the Socio-Judicialism concept, and a socio-judicial pedagogy that supports student learning for future-readiness. She is student-focused and has published widely.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-niki-tobi-atsjc/

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ari-Niki-Tobi

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https://atsjconsulting.com/

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