Qubahan Academic Journal | 2026
Authors: Qutieshat E.
DOI: 10.48161/qaj.v6n1a2306
Journal: Qubahan Academic Journal
Year: 2026
Publisher: Qubahan
Document Type: Article
Open Access: All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access
Cited by: 1
Despite extensive scholarship on digital transformation in higher education, its application to environmental legal education remains under-examined. This article seeks to address this gap by proposing a multidisciplinary, theoretically informed framework, based on a synthesis of prior empirical studies on environmental law teaching. This study adopts a structured integrative literature synthesis approach. Relevant studies were identified through a systematic search of major academic databases using predefined keywords related to digital pedagogy, legal education, environmental governance. The selected literature was thematically analyzed to construct a domain-specific conceptual framework for environmental legal education. Rather than reporting new empirical data, the framework is grounded in findings from existing empirical research. This article draws upon the digital competency frameworks, next-generation pedagogical models, transformational digital learning theories of other disciplinary fields, argues that the digital transformation of pedagogical models is not merely a technological enhancement, but is fundamentally a requirement for the teaching of environmental law in the Anthropocene. With this in mind, the article puts forward three key contributions. Firstly, it integrates frameworks of legal pedagogy, digital competence to demonstrate a particular educational model. Secondly, it collates legal pedagogy’s emerging empirical research to substantiate previous theoretical contributions. Thirdly, it examines pedagogy’s governance, quality assurance in terms of legal education in the EU, internationally. The article also outlines digital instruments for assessing competence in environmental law teaching, for supporting future empirical research on AI-enhanced environmental legal education. © 2026, Qubahan. All rights reserved.
digital competencies; digital transformation; environmental legal education; HeDiCom framework; hybrid intelligence learning; legal pedagogy; trans-formative pedagogy