AI for Lawyers - Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation UCL

Overview

We will use law to illuminate the technology and technology to illuminate the law, considering areas including data protection, emerging AI legislation, copyright and platform regulation. We will identify uncertainties in both law and technology, characterise them and show you how to bridge and work with them.

Key Facts

Upon successful completion of this AI for Lawyers - Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation course from UCL, you will understand:

• How AI systems are really designed, deployed and maintained in practice;

• What businesses exist in the AI supply chain, and what kind of roles they have in the functioning of these systems;

• What machine learning can do and what it cannot, and what you need to know to tell the difference;

• How to ask the right technical questions of data scientists to get to the legally relevant points, whether in-house or across the courtroom;

• What computer scientists think makes machine learning ‘safe’, ‘fair’ or ‘explainable’, the gaps and challenges in this, and what this really might mean in practical legal contexts;

• What are the biggest, genuine unknowns in both AI and law, and how to navigate and keep abreast of them as they develop