Courses

Students work as part of a team building legal technology access-to-justice projects for real-world clients while earning experiential credit! Students will work on all aspects of a project’s life cycle from conception through execution, including client meetings and project management.

No programming or coding experience required.

LIT fellows are enrolled in one of Suffolk Law’s traditional clinics with a reduced workload so they can provide legal tech consulting to that clinic. LIT fellows work on projects that improve their clinic’s efficiency or address access-to-justice issues related to its practice.

For LIT fellows the experience is similar to that of those enrolled in the LIT Clinic. The difference is that LIT fellows only work on projects for other clinics. Students must apply to be a LIT fellow as part of the standard clinical application.

This seminar will survey legal technology developments and issues—largely for the light they shed on lawyering and the legal services delivery system. We’ll study examples and examine the burgeoning literature on the practicalities and ethics of “elawyering,” with attention to the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Each student will build an illustrative software application, for concrete exposure to aspects of legal knowledge engineering. By coordinating with the multi-school “Apps 4 Justice” initiative, students will produce results that help real people with real legal issues.

This course will explore how the law and artificial intelligence (AI) interact. It will survey the role existing and proposed laws do, will, and should play in the creation and use of AI. To ground this exploration, students will gain a deep functional understanding of AI, focusing on the broadest possible meaning of the term—going beyond the use of “AI” as a moniker for “shiny new tech.” They will build and work with their own AI tools while engaging with relevant cases, legislation, and regulations.