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LawAhead Hub

SHAPING THE FUTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION, PROFESSIONS AND SYSTEMS

The LawAhead Hub is an open, collaborative ecosystem created to build a Global Smart legal Community of global law firms, law schools, companies and key players, to explore the causes and consequences of deep transformations taking place in legal education, legal professions and legal systems globally.

What we do

Societies worldwide are facing deep and unprecedented transformations, which impose tremendous challenges and generate opportunities for legal systems, legal professions, and legal education.

The LawAhead Hub aims to engage a Global Smart Legal Community in the analysis of trends and the exchange of knowledge to think, anticipate and foster possible solutions to the most pressing issues facing the legal sector.

Activities & Iniciatives

We were born to disrupt! LawAhead Hub generates cutting-edge research and knowledge that cuts across disciplines and frontiers, leading the conversation through four different outputs:

Publications

Expert-written, sharp, global and future oriented focus publications will be continuously generated and widely disseminated to share knowledge that is insightful, impactful and directed to breaking barriers between academia, practice and policy makers around the globe.

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Events

Global and future oriented events, bringing experts from the world over to address key changes to legal education, legal practice and legal systems will gather together members of the community. A number of those events will be held for LawAhead members only, while others will be open to the entire legal community.

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Research projects

Publications and events are gateways to the development of research projects that seek to better understand underlying transformations in legal education, the legal profession and legal systems, with a view to effect change for the better.

Lifelong Learning

As a law school, we are committed with lifelong learning. Round tables and workshops composed of key players in the legal sector will be periodically held to explore educational needs of all players. We will leverage the insights, knowledge and expertise of our faculty and leading experts across the globe to provide solutions that are relevant to today’s most pressing legal challenges.

Publications

Algorithmic Justice, Education, and the Lawyer of the Future

As we witness the unstoppable advance of machine learning and its application in more and more areas of our lives, I am more convinced each day that the future of the administration of justice will necessarily involve a high level of participation of automated algorithms in each procedural step.

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Technology’s Great Promise to the Study of Law

The challenges today are not technological, but they are moral, ethical, and philosophical, and thus our legal scholars are of central importance in the interpretation of these questions.

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Building Blocks for the Future: A Forward-thinking Approach to Blockchain Regulation

As technology advances, law and governments have been playing a game of catch-up in order to regulate the role these advances have on society. As it transcends political and legal borders, technology has become more and more of a challenge as we move into the future.

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