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New Suite of Legal Courses Look at Implications of Emerging Tech

Flinders University New Suite of Legal Courses

Australia’s Flinders University will be offering a new suite of legal courses that will embed the legal implications of emerging technologies and how those technologies can be used in legal practices to increase access to justice.

As reported, the new curriculum will be available for study from March 2020.

Background of the Initiative

  • Knowing the law is no longer enough. Graduates also need to understand and be capable of harnessing the channels through which justice is delivered, and that it is not just the courtroom. It has increasingly become the cyber sphere.
  • By offering a new suite of innovative core topics, it is guaranteed that graduates stay ahead of technological and societal changes, and the opportunities and challenges of increasing globalisation.
  • Students will additionally have the opportunity to embrace legal innovation for social good as part of their course options.
  • Legal studies are founded on principles casting back hundreds of years.
  • However, there is an increasing need to augment that fundamental grasp of jurisprudence with skills that enable justice to be effectively delivered in contemporary society.
  • Technological innovation is transforming almost every aspect of the law and legal practice, creating new ways of working in new markets.
  • These bold new offerings mean that a Flinders Law degree will give students the skills and knowledge required to adapt and thrive in a changing legal landscape.

Flinders University Suite of Legal Offerings

The suite of new legal offerings includes:

  1. Law in a Digital Age

This exposes students to legal technology platforms, learning how to best utilise technology in legal practice. It seeks to equip students with the digital skills to assist clients to access justice.

It is a topic of vital importance given the fast-changing pace of technology so graduates need to be able to adapt to the next generation of technology, whatever that may be.

Students will develop legal software applications for not-for-profit clients with a view of increasing access to justice.

  1. Law in a Global Age

This equips students with the skills to respond to jurisdiction beyond the Australian legal system.

By undertaking an international study tour, students will learn in international contexts including universities, legal institutions, government departments, and NGOs.

  1. Technology Law

This focuses on the interface between technology and the law. It will expose students to the challenges of regulating technologies, from social media to artificial intelligence (AI) and everything in between.

The awareness of the regulation of new technologies and the practicalities of regulating technology will be considered, potential issues can cover social media and internet censorship, augmented and virtual reality, fintech, robotics, nanotechnology, machine learning and biotechnology.

  1. Legal Innovation and Creative Thinking

This is designed to help Law students better harness their full creative potential.

The course focuses on creativity as a driver of legal innovation, helping students recognise new and existing opportunities in the legal sector.

  1. Innovation for Social Justice Impact

This explores the value and impact innovation has on social justice.

Applying an entrepreneurial mindset, students will develop a social justice innovation that can impact the community.

  1. Indigenous Peoples, Colonialism, and Law

Students will begin by engaging with Indigenous legal and governance structures, the ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures articulate law, the legal frameworks within which British colonialism operated, and the legal impacts of colonialism on Indigenous peoples following invasion.

Building upon these foundations, students will examine issues in public law and their relationship with the history, cultures, and contemporary lives of Indigenous peoples in Australia.

  1. Law in Action

This prepares students with hands-on practical experience with authentic legal tasks.

PARTNER

Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

PARTNER

CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

PARTNER

Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

SUPPORTING ORGANISATION

SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

PARTNER

HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

PARTNER

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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