By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Apply design methodologies to the challenges of legal processes and services.
- Develop a wider appreciation of the legal industry and innovation today.
- Develop an appreciation of how to be a human-centric participant in the legal industry and deliver value for its users.
This course provides excellent holistic training for students who are interested in any career in law. Students who wish to take part in international moot court competitions will have to apply successfully for this module or seek special dispensation from the course convenor, while students who have taken this course may be eligible to do another competition a second time.
This SMU-XO course offers an international experiential learning opportunity that allows students to translate classroom knowledge and theory into practical solutions for various institutions. In addition to visiting law firms, government agencies and companies, student will also participate in a consultancy project. Through the project, students will learn how to solve business problems with guidance from the faculty and project sponsor mentors. The project will focus on evaluating legal problems in different areas of law and recommending/applying solutions to these problems.
For most of the competitions, teams will be expected to produce at least one substantial memorial, produced progressively over a minimum of 3 coach-vetted drafts; in some competitions, there are national/regional qualification rounds for the oral rounds. After the memorials have been submitted, teams will undergo 20-50 practice rounds.
Depending on the type of application chosen for the project work, students will learn one or more of the following areas:
- Document assembly and expert systems;
- Chatbots;
- Machine learning and natural language processing;
- Data analysis and visualisation;
- Cloud computing services;
- Search and information retrieval.
The course will allow students to develop skills to present and analyze topical issues, prepare reports with their research findings and exercise creativity in generating useful recommendations (in the form of law, policy and/or technology solutions) to deal with real problems.
Imagine the following scenario: A Singaporean mediator is asked to mediate a professional negligence dispute. The plaintiff is based in Indonesia, the defendant accounting firm is in the Netherlands, and the defendant's insurer has its headquarters in the United States. All agree to attend mediation in Singapore. The preliminary discussions and meetings, however, take place via email and video-conference with all parties in their home countries. The mediation occurs and the parties reach a settlement, which the parties' legal representatives draft into contractual form.
This course provides excellent holistic training for students who are interested in any career in law. Students who wish to take part in international moot court competitions will have to apply successfully for this module or seek special dispensation from the course convenor, while students who have taken this course may be eligible to do another competition a second time.
This course provides excellent holistic training for students who are interested in any career in law. Students who wish to take part in international moot court competitions will have to apply successfully for this module or seek special dispensation from the course convenor, while students who have taken this course may be eligible to do another competition a second time.
This course provides excellent holistic training for students who are interested in any career in law. Students who wish to take part in international moot court competitions will have to apply successfully for this module or seek special dispensation from the course convenor, while students who have taken this course may be eligible to do another competition a second time.
