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Modern Lawyers is an elective course at the Faculty of Law, Charles University, where students learn to approach legal problems through innovation, technology, design, and experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been teaching and continuously developing the course since October 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This page documents its philosophy<\/a>, learning objectives<\/a>, visual identity and tooling<\/a>a additional resources<\/a>, as a resource for anyone interested in teaching legal innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Course philosophy<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Law is a material<\/strong>: law is not an end goal, fulfilling legal needs is<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Creative confidence<\/strong>: we do small things first and gradually build towards making an epic final project that the students are proud of<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Individual agency<\/strong>: students set their own goals, their own benchmarks, the class gives them what they need<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Learning with, not just about, technology<\/strong>: students actively use tech tools to build, while testing their effectiveness and limits<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Feedback is a gift<\/strong>: students get and give tons of feedback, from one another, me, their mentors, and our guests<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Learning objectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    At the end of the class, the students can<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Design and test creative solutions to legal problems using appropriate methods and technologies<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Analyse and justify the impact of their design decisions on users and the wider system<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Explain the main trends in law (e.g. Legal Tech, AI, and legal design) and their impact on the work of lawyers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Create and test a prototype (e.g. a document, application, or service) that addresses a specific legal problem<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Critically evaluate the outputs of generative artificial intelligence and use them in solving a legal problem<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Collaborate in a team, give and receive feedback, and incorporate it into their project<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Clearly present and defend their solution.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      Visual identity and tooling<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      The class has a distinctive visual identity, which carries across a wide range of paper and digital artefacts. These include absence tracking cards, prompting cards, worksheets, as well as vibecoded apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The cornerstone is a logo that I designed, which combines the justice scales with a technical process diagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      A legal innovation pexeso to facilitate learning of new terminology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      Reflections of the past semesters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n