Future of legal education

Abstract

Globalization and unprecedented technological development have led to unprecedented legal challenges. The concepts of property, personality and actions changes fundamentally due to the rapid (r)evolution of artificial intelligence systems; exponentially growing data volumes and possibilities to store and process them; autonomous and robotic technologies; just a few to mention These changes require a new approach to all areas of law. The existing legal system is designed to regulate human-human (in personam) and human-machine (in rem) relations, thus it is not entirely appropriate to regulate the machine-human or machine-machine relations. In addition, rapid development of legal technologies (LegalTech), powered with artificial intelligence, has already caused and continues to drive market shocks to the legal profession (Mountain, 2007). As a result, lawyers with a higher education are continuously replaced by technological solutions. However, this unprecedented development of LegalTech also creates many new business opportunities and demand for the new generation hybrid professions – legal technologists, legal projects managers, just a few to mention (Susskind, 2008; 2013). Moreover, it also requires a new generation of interdisciplinary legal training, skills and knowledge. That is, technological (r)evolution requires not only next generation of law, but also the next generation of lawyers.[...]