Chief Justice of India Surya Kant emphasized the need for national law universities to take a proactive role in shaping the legal system in response to technological advancements. Speaking on Sunday, he urged these institutions to lead the conversation on how technology can transform legal practices, while ensuring that principles of justice, fairness, and human judgment remain central to these changes.
“Academic integrity and the responsible use of artificial intelligence must become important components of curriculum and pedagogy. The CJI also addressed the growing debate over the use of generative AI in legal education. For this, he stressed collaboration among National Law Universities and called for serious research on algorithmic accountability, data protection, digital access to justice and the changing relationship between technology and dispute resolution.
Addressing the Vice Chancellors’ Conclave 2.0 at National Law University, Jodhpur, the CJI said that the legal profession can no longer remain a late adopter of technology and rejected an outright prohibition of tools like generative AI in legal education.
Change of this nature does not wait for institutional comfort,” the CJI said. The CJI said that technology was already reshaping the legal ecosystem, from drafting contracts and conducting due diligence to legal research, evidence management and dispute resolution. The CJI said that graduates would increasingly work with tools capable of reading thousands of precedents within seconds, identifying legal and regulatory risks and supporting courts and dispute-resolution mechanisms.
