As future legal minds, you have the unique opportunity to dive into new ways of lawyering! Think of the innovative field of smart contracting and legal design in this digital age and imagine a world where contracts are not just pages of dense text but interactive, manageable and understandable guides of conduct – that's the future you could help shape!
In traditional contracting clarity and usability often take a backseat to compliance and risk management but in a technology driven world, where contracts cross borders and industries, this old approach just does not work anymore. Could contracts and other legal documents be as easy to understand as your favorite website? Here is where the magic of legal information architecture, interface design skills, and a strong handle of interactive tools comes in, transforming lawyering and the legal experience for all.
And there's more! Today's legal landscape is not just about humans reading contracts – machines are joining the conversation too. Imagine being part of creating contracts that are not only readable by humans but also by machines. We're talking about digital, self-executing contracts that can understand and act on their own terms!
Software and AI like Google Translate and DeepL are already revolutionizing how we deal with legal language, making it easier to navigate contracts in different languages, so we need to be ahead in a world of contract translation and the legal makeover it applies to legal interactions, including pictograms and other images. You could be at the forefront of this exciting transformation, where legal documents become visually engaging and easy to communicate.
If you're considering a career in law and technology in TalTech Law School you're looking at a world brimming with possibilities. It's a chance to be part of a great disruption in legal education that intends to make the law not something to be merely studied but something to be experienced.