Challenges and Efforts of Legal Education in the Pandemic Time in Improving the Role of Education Through Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka

The Covid-19 pandemic has given an idea of the continuity of the world of education in the future through technology assistance. However, technology still cannot replace the role of teachers, lecturers, and learning interactions between students and teachers because education is not only about acquiring knowledge but also about values, cooperation, and competence. In this case there are several problems, namely what challenges occurred in legal education during the pandemic, as well as what efforts were made to overcome the challenges faced by legal education during the pandemic in increasing the role of education. The research method was an empirical legal research method, a research method that functions to see the law in a real sense and to examine how the law works in society. So that this pandemic situation becomes another challenge for the creativity of each individual in using technology to develop the world of education, especially law, an innovation is being carried out which is currently being developed by the Faculty of Law, Suryakancana University to implement policies in the field of education to be able to adjust in carrying out the learning process. This adjustment is realized through the policy of Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka (MB-KM), in which students are given the opportunity to gain a wider learning experience and new competencies through several learning activities outside their study program