Education for the Provision of Technologically Enhanced Legal Services

Václav Janeček; Rebecca Williams; Ewart Keep

doi:10.1016/j.clsr.2020.105519

Education for the Provision of Technologically Enhanced Legal Services

Václav Janeček^*, Rebecca Williams^*, Ewart Keep^*

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University of Bristol Law School

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Legal professionals increasingly rely on digital technologies when they provide legal services. The most advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) promise great advancements of legal services, but lawyers are traditionally not educated in the field of digital technology and thus cannot fully unlock the potential of such technologies in their practice. In this paper, we identify five distinct skills and knowledge gaps that prevent lawyers from implementing AI and digital technology in the provision of legal services and suggest concrete models for education and training in this area. Our findings and recommendations are based on a series of semi-structured interviews, design and delivery of an experimental course in ‘Law and Computer Science’, and an analysis of the empirical data in view of wider debates in the literature concerning legal education and 21st century skills.

Original language	English
Article number	105519
Number of pages	13
Journal	Computer Law and Security Review
Volume	40
Early online date	16 Dec 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2020.105519
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2021
Event	111th Annual Conference of the Society of Legal Scholars - University of Essex Duration: 1 Sept 2020 → 4 Sept 2020

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This research was supported by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund: ‘Next Generation Services’.

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© 2020 Václav Janeček, Rebecca Williams, Ewart Keep. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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