Puteri Sofia Amirnuddin currently serves as Senior Law Lecturer, Programme Director for Master of Laws programmes and Chief Project Officer for Centre of Industrial Revolution and Innovation (CIRI) at Taylor’s University. Puteri Sofia Amirnuddin is also an instructional design consultant for various international corporations. She is also an award-winning academic, having received numerous awards and accolades for revolutionising teaching and learning techniques to teach law. She is also the first law lecturer at Taylor’s University to receive President’s Award for her transformative teaching and learning pedagogies. In 2020, she was recognized as ‘MIA 70 Rising Personalities on LinkedIn in Malaysia in 2020’ by Marketing in Asia. In 2021, she was recognized as one of the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on EdTech by Thinkers 360. In 2022, Puteri Sofia Amirnuddin was also recognized as 150 Women B2B Thought Leaders You Should Follow in 2022 by Thinkers360.
Reimagining the Future of Legal Education in the Metaverse in Malaysian Law Schools
Abstract:
Recently, there has been various paradigm shifts in the higher education sector. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a constellation of technologies to the legal education sector. University law academics are required to move beyond their primordial instinct to teach face-to-face, rather they are required to be more innovative by integrating technology to make the teaching and learning process more meaningful and engaging in the virtual platform. Consequently, the pandemic has enabled law academics to muster the courage to explore ingenious teaching pedagogies in order to replicate the conventional lecture hall interactions. There have been various creative pedagogies implemented in delivering legal education in Malaysian Universities such as the adoption of Gamification, Augmented Reality, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Virtual Legal Practice Experience, Virtual Internship, etc. However, are law schools in Malaysia ready to change their trajectory to deliver legal education in the Metaverse post-pandemic era? It is predicted that law schools can leverage the collaborative capabilities of virtual worlds – from enabling virtual collaborations, organizing virtual digital field trips to interacting with virtual environment to conduct case-studies. This research will also explore the possible challenges of the integration of Metaverse in the legal education. It will contribute to the existing body of literature as it broadens the understanding of the available opportunities and upcoming challenges of the changing cultures in the legal education Metaverse. This will be valuable to law academics, law students, educational institutions and educational technology providers.