Legal Technology & Innovation
About This Course
At the end of the course, participants would acquire the following:
1. The capacity to analyse advanced theoretical approaches, mindsets and technical knowledge to explore the significance of emerging technologies and technology-based tools in contemporary legal contexts;
2. Knowledge and skills to design and build software systems to address real world challenges and problems in the area of legal practice;
3. The ability to explain system requirements to a non-legal and non-technical audience;
4. The ability to explain the considerations and process of representing legal language in computer code and automating legal decision-making tasks;
5. The capacity to produce a range of technical and professional documents and artefacts to support and communicate legal design processes;
6. An understanding of the ethical frameworks that apply to this area so as to be able to articulate a professional identity and extend career management skills, and operate ethically within a new technologically-mediated legal profession.
What You'll Learn
Legal innovation and technology are new foci in the legal profession as technologies of automation transform the nature of practice. This course provides a theoretically-informed, hands-on practical experience in producing the types of legaltech that are transforming practice, while also equipping the student with the critical faculties to determine their appropriate application. This course offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as developing skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law.
Entry Requirements
A good Bachelor's or Juris Doctor degree in Law