It is the year 2043. Technology and artificial intelligence handle the vast majority of legal services. Czech law requires that there is a person holding a Master’s degree in law accountable for all these outputs. A law student on the way to a seminar room stops at this bulletin board.
The installation 2043 Law School Bulletin Board is a work of design fiction that explores a future scenario in which technology and artificial intelligence perform the vast majority of the current extent of legal services.
In this world, legal skills manifest in new forms, like automations, supervision, and application of technology-driven processes. Czech law still assumes that legal services may only be provided under human supervision.
But it does not specify what this role looks like. Alternative legal services providers with proprietary technology solutions are taking an ever bigger market share. This is reflected even in legal education, which is gradually being supplemented by offerings by private entities.
What is the role of a faculty of law if legal services are provided primarily through technology?
The installation
This speculative installation presents one possible alternative version of the future, illustrated by seven fictional posters.
Lawyers and Agents Society Lecture
Personal agents play an absolutely vital role in enforcing rights before the courts, be it in preparing filings, monitoring deadlines or in assisting parties with legal questions in the courtroom. Yet it took more than ten years and several amendments before provisions on the procedural capacity of agentic systems finally made it into the respective statutes.
Personal agents are governed by Section 32a of the Civil Procedure Code. This provision sits in Title Three of Part One of the Code, which governs participation in proceedings, specifically in the common section that applies to all forms of representation before a court. A personal agent may represent a party to proceedings by law, under a power of attorney, or based on a court decision. The placement of the amended sections also underlines that personal agents are not granted full procedural capacity, but are legally treated solely as a form of representation of a party.
The lecture at the Faculty of Law will be given by Anděla Jírová, Chair of the Action Group for the Digitalisation of Justice, which was established in 2030 after the court system nearly collapsed under the weight of generated and agentic filings.
The lecture is organized by the Lawyers and Agents Society, a student-and-agent association bringing together those interested in the most advanced uses of artificial intelligence in law.
What are the contents of the provision that governs both a personal agent with a power of attorney under Section 28b and a court-appointed AI guardian?
What are the priorities of the Action Group for the Digitalisation of Justice?
Party like it’s 2026
Law students, overwhelmed by technology at every step of their studies and personal lives, romanticise the year 2026, a time when humans could already harness the benefits of artificial intelligence, but its effects had not yet permeated every aspect of human life.
The year 2026 evokes in the 2043 law students visions of a carefree childhood, primary school, a time before they started using smart devices.
A time when generative AI was still primarily a chat window and the internet was regularly asking us to confirm we were not robots.
The visual of the poster is playful AI slop, which turned out to be the dominant aesthetic trend of the mid-2020s that the party refers to.
This period was the last time that an AI creation could be recognised at first glance.
The venue, Klub Hvězda, reflects that the university still provides students with housing in its halls of residence, which matters greatly in the context of the ongoing housing crisis in Prague. In a way, this poster is a positive vision: it assumes that in the year 2043, young people have the means to attend university, live independently, meet and have fun together.
What will we be reminiscing about in seventeen years as the good old days?
What would it cost you to go somewhere agent-free?
Job posting: Junior Legal Engineer
Praxis, an alternative legal services provider, is hiring a Junior Legal Engineer from among law students. The requirements for this role are very demanding, which reflects the lack of truly junior roles and the ability of employers to be very selective. The posting emphasizes, among other things, that candidates holding a Legal Engineering Diploma™ or an equivalent authorisation to work with agentic databases are preferred.
Legal Engineering roles represent a compromise between the automation of legal work with artificial intelligence and the need for human supervision in the provision of legal services. The job descriptions vary; at Praxis, they involve checking the outputs of its proprietary systems and databases. These systems perform the vast majority of tasks Praxis carries out for its clients. Over the course of the operations, beyond standard quality checks, an escalation to the senior human supervisor may be necessary, especially when it comes to complex, novel, or non-standard questions of law. In such a case, the output is checked by the senior legal supervisor as well as by the legal engineer, who needs to identify why the escalation was necessary in the first place. For the junior legal engineer, these situations represent valuable opportunities for collaboration.
If technology takes over a large part of routinely provided legal services, how will junior lawyers be trained?
Legal Engineering Diploma™
Education is becoming increasingly privatised and commodified, as can be seen in the invitation to a one-year intensive programme provided by a Legal Engineering College™.
Legal Engineering Colleges™ are private entities that intend to cover gaps in traditional legal education and react to market demand for qualified legal engineering talent. At the same time, they connect technology providers with juniors and promise access to otherwise inaccessible proprietary databases. Experience with these systems is hard to get elsewhere, yet often required for a job in the field, which justifies the rather steep price tag for this type of instruction.
Students of Legal Engineering College™ complete the one-year programme leading to the Legal Engineering Diploma™ alongside their studies, typically in their third year.
More than 70% of alumni of the Faculty of Law have enrolled in such programs during their studies.
What would be the learning outcomes of a Legal Engineering Diploma™?
Who decides which competencies are essential for the practice of law?
Proceedings Mater incerta? Legal Aspects of Parenthood Without Birth
The proceedings Mater incerta? Legal Aspects of Parenthood Without Birth from a conference organized by the Department of Civil Law discuss ectogenesis: the partial or complete development of an unborn human outside a woman’s body.
Following a leap in technological progress in the 2030s, ectogenesis is nowadays relatively accessible. Regulation, however, has yet to respond, which is why the academic community has taken action by organizing the conference. The proceedings include contributions on, for example, determining maternity and paternity, and the legal aspects of the emerging commercialisation of this technology as opposed to defining it as a specific health service.
A printed book may seem surprising on a bulletin board in 2043. Yet, amidst information overload and a plurality of opinions backed by unlimited generated arguments, there is still plenty of room in legal scholarship for curated, edited collections of verified knowledge and skills.
What has changed is that the book is now accompanied by digital materials, training datasets including case studies and skills for personal agents. A book is therefore an artefact to be consumed by both humans and their digital counterparts. Just like lawyers used to add new publications to their personal libraries, with these proceedings they also load packages of legal skills and verified information into their digital repositories.
How does law respond to technological development, and is it desirable for this to happen quickly or slowly?
How do machine-readable formats of sharing information affect the way we think and work?
Hargora
The legal AI market is saturated with a large number of providers of frontier legal models, application layers, AI-native law firms, as well as hybrid service providers, such as Hargora.
Hargora was created in a merger of the two major providers of legal AI, Harvey and Legora, in 2026. Following this merger, Hargora has also acquired a range of other legal tech solutions and startups, AI-native and traditional law firms, as well as alternative legal services providers.
What kind of access does the licence enable and what does Hargora gain from student usage?
Is this legal tech vendor offering free licences at the faculty of law because it was selected or just because someone hung the poster here?
This poster is based on the Hargora project, a 2026 April Fools’ joke by Alex Denne. It included a merger announcement, merch, a careers page, and more. The term Hargora was coined by Richard Tromans.
The Hargora logo and concept are used in this installation with the kind permission of the project’s author.
Legal courses for the public
The offering of legal courses is an expression of a continuous dialogue between the faculty and the wider public.
There are three very different courses. The first is the introduction to Czech law, a course that was taught at Juridikum before the year 2026. Regardless of how the legal system is navigated, having a basic orientation in rights and obligations is a valuable skill, especially in light of the rising complexity and quantity of legal norms in all aspects of human life.
Why would anyone, in the age of unprecedented access to information, enroll in a course about the basics of Czech law at a faculty of law?
The second course covers technologies in court proceedings. It is primarily focused on legal aspects of new tech solutions, such as understanding liability for the conduct of autonomous systems, questions of procedural capacity, algorithmic case allocation, attribution of conduct and other legal limits on the use of autonomous solutions in court proceedings.
What does algorithmic case allocation mean and what rules does it follow?
The third course turns away from technology towards another megatrend, the climate crisis. It presents the course Measures in a State of Water Shortage, which covers a wide range of adaptation measures under the drought plan pursuant to the Water Act. As drought worsened and rainfall continued to be scarce, a state of water shortage was declared in 2039. The state of water shortage has at this moment become a long-term exceptional regime, in which a broad range of measures is being implemented under the drought plan within the meaning of Section 87b of the Water Act, from regulating individual water consumption to landscape and building measures.
Equally significant is that the measures taken during the state of water shortage are now so wide-reaching that the law faculty can successfully offer a course on navigating them to the general public.
Why has the state of water shortage been in force for four full years?
Questions to ponder
It is impossible to predict how the future of law, society or our planet will actually unfold. The installation therefore serves primarily to explore current macrotrends and to open a discussion about what these make us feel. Visions of the future can help us better understand the present. As you look at the posters, think about which futures you imagine yourself.
What does this vision of the future make you feel?
Did a vague legal term catch your eye? What could it mean?
Are you thinking “that would never happen here”? Why not? Why might it?
Methodology
The installation 2043 Law School Bulletin Board is a work of design fiction. The key task for design fiction is the creation of the so-called diegetic prototypes: detailed, realistically rendered objects through which we can actively interact with alternative visions of reality. The posters are therefore deliberately somewhat realistic even for the present year 2026, so that the audience can engage with unusual concepts of the not yet through a familiar medium.
The individual posters do not represent isolated versions of the future, let alone predictions, but different perspectives on the impacts of technological transformation on the legal ecosystem. The installation also reflects wider current trends, such as possible technological developments in the field of assisted reproduction, or the climate crisis.
The posters were created on the basis of existing signals, that is, indicators of possible emerging phenomena. The research for this installation was also grounded in consultations with experts, analysis of trend reports, and market discourse. Unless stated otherwise, the posters and this catalogue contain speculation, extrapolation, or authorial construction.
The year 2043 was chosen as a compromise between speculation and reality. Law generally evolves at a slower pace, so a ten-year horizon would probably not be sufficient, while fifty years would be too distant to extrapolate from existing signals. Seventeen years is therefore roughly the time when children born in recent years may already be studying at the faculty, or considering it.
To convey its key ideas, the installation rests on a number of assumptions. The fundamental one is that humanity survives both the climate crisis and other threats, such as the breakneck speed of artificial intelligence development, natural disasters, or geopolitical tensions. The installation thus presents a vision in which society has not been fatally struck by existential threats, though several negative impacts of current developments can nonetheless be observed.
The installation does not offer an exhaustive view of an inevitable future, but only one of the many possible scenarios. We could, for example, discuss more radical developments, such as whether bulletin boards and physical spaces for education of any kind persist in 2043, or other possible crises resulting from geopolitical, climatic, or other events.
Credits
2043 Law School Bulletin Board
Medium: seven fictional posters, hand-bound catalogue
Installed at the Faculty of Law, Charles University on 26 October 2026
Concept, research, design, texts by Barbora Obračajová
The installation was supported by expert consultations with doc. JUDr. Ondřej Frinta, Ph.D., doc. JUDr. Miroslav Sedláček, LL.M., Ph.D., JUDr. Michal Sobotka, Ph.D. and Petra Stejskalová.
Artificial intelligence (Claude and ChatGPT) was used in preparing the posters, where it served the concept of the installation.
