Abstract:
In 2019, I developed a new course ‘DigiLawyer: Training Lawyers for the Challenge of Digitalisation’ at the Faculty of Law in Copenhagen with the aim to help law students and lawyers to acquire new skillset and knowledge. Given that digitization is having a transformative impact on many aspects of society including law and the legal professions, lawyers, besides a deep legal expertise, are requested to have the ability to know and apply new tools and technologies in their everyday life. The course thus focuses on building and training a new skillset. Students are introduced to computational logic, coding, quantitative and qualitative analytical tools, design thinking and others. The aim of the course is to help law students to understand the technology, its components and the logic behind it. Students collaboratively design legal tech solutions to tackle existing legal issues and thus themselves become the tech designers. After participating on this course, law students are able to recognize the potential of technology for their future practice as they are able to understand different technologies and apply them for the purposes of improved legal analysis or legal argumentation.During my presentation at the conference, I will address the design of the course,its elements and further developments. At the same time, due to Covid-19, the course was moved fully to digital classroom for more than half of the classes. It has been extremely insightful to observe how teaching technology through technology has impacted the students and their experience.
Speaker:
Dr. Alexandra Andhov LL.M., S.J.D., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Alexandra Andhov is an Assistant Professor of Corporate law at Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. In 2019, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Cornell Law School. She has been previously a visiting researcher at Oxford Law School, Lund University and University of Turin. Alexandra’s main areas of research are corporate law, capital market law, corporate social responsibility, contract law and technology. On these topics she has published articles in numerous European and US law journals and reviews. She is on the board of the Nordic Legal Tech Hub and Finance Watch and a member of the advisory board of MIT Computational Law Report.