Legal Technology and Innovation

LAW20040 12.5 Credit Points Hawthorn

Duration

  • One semester or equivalent

     

Contact hours

  • 36 hours Face to Face + Blended

On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.

2024 teaching periods

Hawthorn

Higher Ed. Semester 2

Dates:
29 Jul 24 - 27 Oct 24

Results:
3 Dec 24

Last self enrolment:
11 Aug 24

Census:
31 Aug 24

Last withdraw without fail:
13 Sep 24
More teaching periods
Swinburne Online

Teaching Period 3

Dates:
4 Nov 24 - 9 Feb 25

Results:
4 Mar 25

Last self enrolment:
17 Nov 24

Census:
29 Nov 24

Last withdraw without fail:
27 Dec 24

Prerequisites

75 credit points in LAW units

Aims and objectives

This unit introduces students to the relationship between law and technology from both a practical and theoretical perspective. Legal innovation and technology have become a new focus in the legal industry as technologies of automation slowly transform the nature of legal practice. At the same time, students receive instruction on technology as an object of legal regulation, as well as how technology changes the nature of law itself. This unit offers highly practical lab-based work where students learn the fundamentals of automating legal services and decision support systems, as well as develop skills required for designing new technologies to aid the practice of law.

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Describe and evaluate new technologies that change, challenge and enable the way that lawyers work
2. Represent a legal decision making process as a series of logical steps
3. Explain and build a software system intended to automate a legal decision making task
4. Design and construct a solution to address a challenge or problem in the area of legal practice, and convey the solution requirements to a non-legal audience
5. Work collaboratively as a team to design a legal technology solution