JurLab: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Legal Education

Six months ago, the Faculty of Law of the Zaporizhia Polytechnic National University introduced the educational AI bot JurLab into student training.

Initially, the bot functioned as a simulator of legal situations, where students played the role models of a prosecutor, lawyer, investigator or human rights defender, analyzed ethical dilemmas and made decisions. But in six months, JurLab has evolved into a full-fledged educational tool with its own “legal core”.

Thanks to the implementation of API integrations, the bot gained access to key international legal sources:
– HUDOC API — a database of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights
– OHCHR API — international UN recommendations in the field of human rights human

This means that JurLab has become not only a simulator, but also a dynamic knowledge base that allows students not only to react to simulated situations, but also to rely on real legal sources.

“JurLab was created not to replace the teacher, but to enhance the student’s thinking. Previously, students learned norms in the abstract. Now they can immediately check their decision through the decisions of the ECHR or UN recommendations — as happens in real legal practice,” notes the author of the project, Yuriy Gavrylov.

The bot is already actively used in practical classes and contributes to the development of critical, ethical and analytical thinking of future specialists. The project continues to develop: new scenarios, group work formats are being prepared, and there is a possibility of inter-university cooperation.

The author of the project is Yuriy Gavrylov, associate professor of the Department of Constitutional, Administrative and Labor Law, head of the department of the Zaporizhia Regional Prosecutor’s Office, as well as the founder of the student legal community YGen, an artificial intelligence expert and a certified Google AI teacher.

Try JurLab: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67dfbefde2a08191a7d7d471dd00a725-jurlab-trenazher-iuridichnogo-mislennia