LAW4545 · AI for lawyers: Practical applications and theory

Overview

This unit examines the integration of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) into legal practice, focusing on both present applications and future possibilities. This unit’s focus is not about the regulatory environment for AI, it is about the ways in which AI is being used in the world outside of law school. Designed as a practical and interdisciplinary bridge between doctrinal law and professional skills, the unit explores how emerging technologies are transforming legal workplaces and reshaping the profession’s operational landscape. Within the unit, both individually and as part of a team, you will use and will develop a deeper understanding of appropriate uses of AI in law and will critically engage and reflect on those uses.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate understanding of the principles and reasons underpinning the use of AI in law and legal practice.
2. Work collaboratively within a team and show understanding of the actions required to achieve cohesion and effective, meaningful outcomes.
3. Apply the principles of innovation to provide a solution for an identifiable problem related to the use of AI in the delivery of legal services.
4. Communicate design ideas and the problems they seek to address, to a range of audiences.
5. Critically analyse the ethical, practical, and professional issues relating to the use of AI in legal services and synthesise these into a reflective report.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.