Get equipped for a career in legal technology with UTS through expert academics, cutting-edge research, internship and co-curricular opportunities. Enhance your career opportunities with a solid foundation of essential legal skills accompanied by a distinct advantage in the field of technology law and innovation.
Bachelor of Laws & Bachelor of Laws combined degrees
The Legal Futures and Technology major, a first in Australia, enables students to immerse themselves in a range of learning activities centered around innovation and technology. Students deepen their knowledge and skills to successfully work in careers at the intersection of law and disruptive technologies.
Unbiased AI could improve women's rights
Award-winning UTS researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
Internship opportunities
Gain practical legal experience and develop professional skills through work with a local host organisation with a focus on tech. Placement partners include LawPath, Australasian Legal Information Institute, Westpac and Marrickville Legal Centre.
Cutting-edge research
Co-curricular opportunities
Outside of the classroom there are a range of opportunities to enhance your knowledge and skills in legal tech. Check the Student Notice Board on Canvas and join the Law Students Society for all the latest co-curricular opportunities.
Build an app for change
The Law Tech Challenge enables law students to develop app design skills with Neota Logic and professional practice skills with Wotton Kearney law firm, whilst being mentored by Allens’ lawyers. Using technology-driven solutions, you'll work with not-for-profit clients to improve their capacity to carry out their mission.
Mooting
The UTS Law Students Society host an annual intervarsity Legal Technology Moot, among other mooting competitions.
Student prizes
Amy Tesoriero: Winner of the ATRIP FICPI Young Scholars Essay Prize 2022. ‘Using the flexibilities of Article 30 TRIPS to implement patent exceptions in pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal 3’ (2022) 25(2) The Journal of World Intellectual Property 516.
Student publications
Andrew Geraghty, ‘The sound of streaming: Third level agreements as a solution to Twitch’s “music problem”’ (2022) 22(2) Australian Intellectual Property Law.
“What the Law Tech Challenge demonstrated in terms of new learning and skills development was [the students’] adaptability to embrace an entirely new and entirely ‘real-life’ legal subject matter.”
Justin Moses
In-house lawyer, AIME Mentoring (AIME), client in 2022
“The skills learnt and people I have met throughout this Challenge directly led to my first law tech job as Legal Tech Solution Consultant for an in-house legal department whilst still a student.”
Ethan Huang
2018 Law Tech Challenge student, lawyer at Gilbert + Tobin
Careers
UTS law students who take up technology-related opportunities during their study enjoy careers as technology lawyers, IP lawyers, legal counsel in tech teams, legal professionals in start-ups and working in areas of cybersecurity, regulation, innovation, communications and transformation.
It’s never too late for a law degree
As a Year 12 student, Naomi McKeown missed out on undergraduate law by just a few marks. Instead, she pursued a commerce degree, which led to a successful career in financial services project management. But the idea of being a lawyer never quite left her.
A career in social justice
When Zaahir Edries was appointed to the role of General Counsel for activist group GetUp!, it was a professional moment more than 15 years in the making.
Postgraduate law can lead to more than just a legal career
Marketing and communications professional Luisa Vumbaca once had access to databases full of customers’ personal information. What she didn’t have was an understanding of the fledgling privacy laws and practices that governed the management of personal information.
From business manager to banking lawyer
Emmanuel Georgouras was 24 when he enrolled in the UTS Juris Doctor. At the time, he was a business acquisitions manager in the telecommunications sector, but was increasingly interested in the legal aspects of commercial transactions.
Our academics
The Faculty of Law includes an expert team of academics who research and teach across a diverse range of tech-related areas. These academics are recognised internationally and nationally for their ground-breaking and innovative work.
David Lindsay
Expert in law and technology; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and Intellectual Property and coordinates the Law Tech Clinic with Lander and Rogers.
Derek Wilding
Co-Director of Centre for Media Transition, expert in digital communications and regulation; teaches in Media and Digital Platform Regulation.
Evana Wright
Expert in the regulation of technology and intellectual property; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and Intellectual Property.
Genevieve Wilkinson
Expert in technology law and intellectual property; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and Intellectual Property.
Isabella Alexander
Expert in intellectual property law in particular copyright; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Karen Lee
Expert in regulation of digital platforms and social media; teaches in Regulating Technologies.
George Tian
Expert in cyber law and intellectual property; teaches in Intellectual Property Commercialisation.
Maryam Tabari
Expert in patent law and intellectual property commercialisation; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Ramona Vijeyarasa
Expert in women’s rights, artificial intelligence, technology and the law: teacher in Ethics Law and Justice.
Jane Rawlings
Expert in trade mark and copyright law; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Michael Davis
Expert in media and communications regulation.
Sacha Molitorisz
Expert in media and digital privacy; teaches in Privacy Law and Media Law.
Natalie Stoianoff
Expert in global intellectual property law and the circular economy; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Honni van Rijswijk
Expert in the harms of technology (corporations, tort law, AI); theories of justice and technology; teaches Just Tech.
Penny Crofts
Expert in criminal law theory and corporate crime; teaches in Criminal Law and Wickedness and Vice.