Certificate in Legal Technology

Program Overview

The PG Dip and PG Cert Legal Technology programs provide students with essential knowledge in Legal Technology, empowering them to navigate the changing legal landscape. Taught by industry experts, the programs offer flexibility through full-time, part-time, on-campus, and online study options. Students explore topics such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cybelaws, enhancing their employability and career prospects in the legal sector.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

The Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate in Legal Technology are innovative, flexible programs designed for law and non-law graduates who want to gain essential in-depth knowledge of Legal Technology without completing a full Master’s program.

Objectives:

• Gain essential in-depth knowledge of Legal Technology.
• Understand how technology is changing the legal landscape.
• Develop skills to progress within existing firms, create start-ups, or simply gain knowledge about the evolving legal landscape.
• Stay ahead of the competition by gaining insight into the latest developments in Legal Technology.
• Be taught by subject matter experts, including former and current practitioners and research and teaching focused academics.
• Focus on legal practice, not just theory.
• Benefit from strategic partnerships with firms, regulators, and accreditation bodies.
• Enjoy flexibility in study modes (full-time, part-time, on campus, online).
• Improve employability by gaining important transferable skills and mapping your career with the careers team.

Outline:

Program Content:

The PG Dip and PG Cert in Legal Technology are vocational courses designed to further your skills in the diverse and fast-moving area of technologies affecting the legal sector. The courses focus specifically on developing an in-depth knowledge of Legal Technology and how the legal landscape is being changed by technology.

Structure:

• Award-linked module: Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Law
• Elective modules:
• PG Dip students choose three modules.
• PG Cert students choose one module.
• Elective modules include:
• Corporate Governance and Disruptive Technology
• Cyberlaws (The Laws of Data and Digital Assets)
• Technoethics in Law
• The Internet of Things

Course Schedule:

• September 2024:
• PG Cert Legal Technology (Postgraduate Certificate): Full-time (Bristol), Part-time (Bristol and London Moorgate)
• PG Dip Legal Technology (Postgraduate Diploma): Full-time (Bristol and London Moorgate), Part-time (Bristol and London Moorgate)
• February 2025:
• PG Cert Legal Technology (Postgraduate Certificate): Part-time (Bristol and London Moorgate)
• PG Dip Legal Technology (Postgraduate Diploma): Full-time (Bristol and London Moorgate), Part-time (Bristol and London Moorgate)

Online Study:

• Legal Technology Online is available starting September 2024 or February 2025.
• Covers the same content as the on-campus version.
• Offers the same high level of professional lecturer support.
• Allows students to study when and where they want, over a variety of different course lengths.

Assessment:

• Modules are assessed by a three-hour unseen written examination or a 4,500-word coursework assignment.
• The default campus location for online study is London.

Teaching:

• Taught by a combination of former and current practitioners, as well as research and teaching academics who are focused on legal practice, not just theory.

Careers:

• 95% of postgraduate students in employment were in highly skilled employment 15 months after graduating (2020/21 Graduate Outcomes data).
• The University offers support with job applications and other work experience opportunities as soon as students accept their place.
• The University has a Career Finder tool to help students find a career that suits them.

Other:

• The award-linked module (Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Law) will consider how disruptive technologies are bringing about a fundamental shift in decision-making and shaping a new normal in legal practice operations.
• The module will look at the two key technologies facilitating this change: artificial intelligence and blockchain.
• This module will allow students to get hands-on with the technology, exploring how it works as well as the legal and regulatory issues its use presents.
• In addition to a general induction to the program, there is a two-week induction covering the Key Principles of the English Legal System.
This is compulsory for students with a non-law background.