The Legal Tech Hackathon: An interdisciplinary approach to teaching IT law

Beschreibung

Since 2018, the Legal Tech Hackathon has been taking place as a cooperation between the University of Vienna’s Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law and the FH Campus Wien - University of Applied Sciences. Several small interdisciplinary project teams are formed each year consisting of law and computer science students in pursuit of developing and creating a legal tech business idea and prototype. In doing so, the Hackathon does not only aim to deepen the law student’s knowledge of IT law through a practical and hands-on approach, but also actively encourages an inner team knowledge transfer of background information in computer science to the law students, and vice-versa. This hands-on approach allows the students to apply IT law in one of the most practical ways possible – on a business idea created by themselves. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the teams and the Hackathon as a whole, this application of IT law is done in a way that is closely focused on the IT aspects utilized by the project team.
In essence, the Hackathon offers a unique opportunity for law students to analyze and answer relevant legal questions in regard to the project their team is developing. As a result, the Legal Tech Hackathon has seen many inspirational business ideas targeting pressing legal issues through the years, some of which have even been continued as startups by the respective project teams after the Hackathon. How the Hackathon is able to achieve this, as well as its goals and methods, will be further examined during the workshop.

Zeitraum	25 Nov. 2023
Ereignistitel	21. Cyberspace conference 2023 : XXI. International conference organized by the Faculty of Law in cooperation with the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University and the European Academy of Law and ICT
Veranstaltungstyp	Konferenz
Konferenznummer	21
Ort	Brno, Tschechische RepublikAuf Karte anzeigen