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The sheer range of possibilities offered by Legal Tech allows for a variety of perspectives: As lawyers, we rightly ask ourselves whether computers could one day take over the of lawyers or judges, and how professional ethics, IT law, and legal methodology can keep pace with the computer age.
Course Content
In this block seminar, we will deliberately change perspectives: In about half of the time, we will learn to write our own computer program (Java in Eclipse) that makes simple legal decisions. Initially, the focus will be on computer science work techniques: We will determine the project scope, timeline, user experience, and programming language, and then begin coding. At the end of the seminar, we will test our program and then contextualize it legally by asking whether society could benefit from such programs, why platforms like flightright or geblitzt.de exist, and whether such portals represent the beginning or end of a (legal) era of thinking.
The course "Introduction to Programming for Lawyers" is conducted by Dr. Tim Brockmann and Simon Künnen.
No prior programming knowledge is required; we will explore the basics of programming in Java together. A personal laptop is necessary, as is registration on Stud.IP.
