LawTech Industry Board

The LawTech Industry Board brings together leading industry experts, practitioners and alumni to join our academics in advancing legal tech research and education — two key components of our research-led LLM in Law, Innovation and Technology programme.

The LawTech Industry Board works with members of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation to develop in-depth insight into the technological advancements taking place in the legal services, technology and creative industries, in regulation, in policy and other related fields. Through ongoing knowledge exchange and targeted activities, the Board supports our students in developing the skills and knowledge needed to meet the growing demand for industry-ready law graduates.

The Board provides a forum for the development of the LLM in Law, Innovation and Technology research-led programme and guidance on the programme’s academic content, structure, modes of delivery and assessment. The LawTech team will also use its connections with legal tech and related industries to develop extracurricular activities and career enhancing opportunities for students on it courses.

Board Members

Be taught by world-leading academics - many from the Centre for Global Law and Innovation
Benefit from ongoing support from a number of leading industry experts
Understand the impacts of law on the development and use of digital technologies - and the impacts of emerging technologies on law
Develop a productive familiarity with computer science, data science, and economics

Bristol is well known for technology and innovation - collaborations between academia and industry thrive here. We've witnessed enormous changes in how people do business online and how they interact. The LawTech Industry Board will ensure we keep up with innovation, address the related challenges and provide students with the skills and knowledge they need to be future ready.

Václav Janeček

Programme Director LLM Law, Innovation and Technology

For further information about the LawTech Industry Board - or to discuss industry opportunities for students, please contact Václav Janeček (Programme Director).

IT Law just got me really interested in how the law is regulating technology, so how do we actually look at upcoming technologies like artificial intelligence, like machine learning. How do we regulate them? It’s interesting that there’s so many different technologies out there, why isn’t the law making use of them? And through studying this I ended up working in legal tech now.

Amy Conroy

Principal Legal Engineer at Legora, University of Bristol alumna