Smart Room Legal Tech

What is the "Smart Room Legal Tech"?

What does digitalization look like in the legal field? What new tools can support and permanently facilitate legal work? These and other questions are addressed by the Smart Room "Legal Tech" at the University of Potsdam, which began its work at the start of the winter semester 2021/22.

In this special format of the university scholarship program, ten students from law, computer science, and business jointly explore the transformative potential of technologies on the legal profession. Already in its third year, the Smart Room is supported and professionally guided by the law firm ADVANT Beiten, and its participants receive a university scholarship. The University of Potsdam, in collaboration with the law firm ADVANT Beiten, organizes four workshops over the course of a year for the ten students.

Why "Legal Tech"?

In the Smart Room "Legal Tech",  students of various disciplines are to face the challenges of the changing legal market, especially due to digitalisation. The emerging technologies gave a new stimulus to the discussion about informational fields of application in the application of law. Furthermore, in the age of digital medical technology or self-driving cars, it will become increasingly important, for example, to integrate questions of data protection and other legally relevant effects on the consumer earlier and earlier in the design process of products themselves. The Smart Room aims to sensitize students to the increasing relevance of legal-tech applications in supporting legal practice, in consumer enforcement and with regard to official decisions - keyword "robo judges". The Smart Room offers future lawyers a new framework for thinking with valuable tools and instruments - with which sustainable solutions in the area of "legal tech" can be developed.