Law & Tech | Notion

The idea

New technologies with their constant development challenge the practice of the legal profession, from reviewing documents for relevant information to predicting liabilities and litigation outcomes using computer algorithms. All over the world, judicial management models and the legal services industry are facing great challenges due to technological and social developments.
This course was created in 2019 and has had two iterations on its structure and content, which has allowed a course to be structured for diverse audiences with a technological component and a legal component.
Throughout the course we will study and discuss not only the basic fundamentals of computer law, the implications of technology in various areas of law and cover ethical and social debates of the information age.

The process

This course was created in 2019-II and it has had 3 iterations from there.
The course strated with an interactive lecture approach where in ach of the sections will have a case or real situation to address the subject from the social, cultural and legal implications.
Each session is divided between an autonomous work, a joint work and a plenary discussion.
The main concern from the student’s evaluation was the density of technological concepts often made me lose the thread of the class.
To persuade students to use technology and to preach its use with their colleagues, I decided to implement a game-based learning methodology (Games-Based Learning). This type of learning can be defined as learning facilitated by the use of a game.

Game	Description
What is the Internet?	Through personally created worksheets, the objective of this activity is for students to identify the line that forms the Internet from coaxial cables to wireless networks. Own creation.
Oops! this content is not available	The group is divided into two parts, they are given some graphic pieces with messages that have been arranged on the Internet in some social network and the objective of this activity is to create arguments to allow the removal of that content or the permissibility of this.
Moral Machine	It is a game developed by MIT, in which they must follow a series of steps to determine their biases when it comes to saving or not a person when driving an automatic vehicle.
Teachable Machine	This is an online application that demonstrates how to train a computer to recognize your own images, sounds and poses. It is a dynamic and simple way to create machine learning models without the need for knowledge or coding.
Learn + Play	This is seven games deployed by IBM to explore through various activities the concepts behind IBM's latest AI research, and seeks to understand how humans interact with AI systems. The objective is for students to choose one of the seven games and based on their personal experience they had to answer two questions in a debate: How can this algorithm end in harm? and What kind of liability does it host?
CryptoZombies	This is an online application to learn how to Program Ethereum DApps. It is an interactive programming school that teaches you how to create smart contracts in Solidity while building your own crypto-collectible game. The goal is for students to interact with programming in a primary way. They must then create their first world and a zombie to help them understand the smart contract concept.
Discover crypt	is a game designed to introduce a beginner-level amount of knowledge to those interested in learning cryptology. Students must decipher the basic level through some elements given by the application. The game consists of three levels containing an encrypted message for the player to decrypt as practice.

SMART

The development of the academic program aims to impart the fundamental bases of computer law that will allow students to have a general knowledge of the aspects that are indispensable. Likewise, the course seeks to motivate students to have a vision of law complementary to other areas of knowledge such as design, engineering and entrepreneurship. In this way, the course intends that the student revolves around the following knowledge map:

To know

Identify the field of action of computer law, its characteristics and key concepts for lawyers.