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This course dives deep into the role Artificial Intelligence is playing in the judicial system, from case intake and legal research to evidence handling, risk assessment, and sentencing support. You’ll learn to evaluate tools, identify bias and privacy risks, draft governance controls, and design oversight workflows that uphold due process, transparency, and public trust.
This course aims to respond to the gaps identified by the UNESCO survey and the AU strategy by equipping African judicial officers, court administrators, and legal professionals with foundational and advanced knowledge to:
Strengthen AI literacy, enabling judicial officers to build expertise in AI applications and integrate them into daily workflows
Understand the technical, legal, and ethical dimensions of AI
Navigate the risks and opportunities AI presents for court operations and service delivery
Plan strategically for the safe and accountable integration of AI into judicial workflows
This is one of the first structured curricula designed to build AI literacy and governance capacity across African courts, from clerks to judges to judicial councils. Its value lies in combining local grounding with global comparatives to create something both pioneering and practical:
Africa-centered: All examples, use cases, and policy tools are drawn from African legal and judicial contexts, reflecting constitutional systems, linguistic diversity, and regional reform agendas.
Framework-aligned: Supports implementation of AU frameworks, national data protection laws, and ongoing judicial reform priorities.
Practical and transferable: Provides ready-to-use templates, roadmaps, and exercises that courts and training institutes can adopt, adapt, and institutionalize.
Capacity-multiplying: Structured as a dual track (Introductory + Advanced), with options for CLE credits, alum networks, and training-of-trainers models to ensure long-term reuse and systemic integration.
Globally informed, locally led: Embeds lessons from comparative judicial experiences worldwide but adapts them to African realities, ensuring relevance, legitimacy, and sustainability.
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