Is it time to switch up the traditional model of law school and legal education?
Although the need to re-envision the future of legal education existed well before the current pandemic, the shifting nature of legal practice as well as technological change and the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have spurred tons of debate and are widely believed to cause massive disruption to the traditional model of law school and legal education across the globe.
While it is usually tough to make predictions, especially about the future, this is particularly challenging in turbulent environments. In the 21st century, new technological advances that change the way people relate to one another and to the very notion of work, give us pause for renewed and careful speculation about the status of the law and legal industry. In the long term, both the status of the law and the roles that humans have in the legal process will have to be reshaped and redefined by these forces, and therefore they must inform the future of law school and legal education.
In this episode of The Law of Tech Podcast, I explored and discussed the status of law school and legal education in the digital age with Felix Zopf, PhD Candidate, and teaching and research associate at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the Law School of the University of Vienna.
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