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.
Award-winning UTS researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
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.
The Law Tech Challenge enables law students to develop app design skills with Neota Logic and professional practice skills with Allens 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.
The UTS Law Students Society host an annual intervarsity Legal Technology Moot, among other mooting competitions.
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.
Andrew Geraghty, ‘The sound of streaming: Third level agreements as a solution to Twitch’s “music problem”’ (2022) 22(2) Australian Intellectual Property Law.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Co-Director of Centre for Media Transition, expert in digital communications and regulation; teaches in Media and Digital Platform Regulation.
Expert in the regulation of technology and intellectual property; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and Intellectual Property.
Expert in technology law and intellectual property; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and Intellectual Property.
Expert in intellectual property law in particular copyright; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Expert in regulation of digital platforms and social media; teaches in Regulating Technologies.
Expert in cyber law and intellectual property; teaches in Intellectual Property Commercialisation.
Expert in patent law and intellectual property commercialisation; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Expert in women’s rights, artificial intelligence, technology and the law: teacher in Ethics Law and Justice.
Expert in trade mark and copyright law; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Expert in media and communications regulation.
Expert in media and digital privacy; teaches in Privacy Law and Media Law.
Expert in global intellectual property law and the circular economy; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
Expert in the harms of technology (corporations, tort law, AI); theories of justice and technology; teaches Just Tech.
Expert in criminal law theory and corporate crime; teaches in Criminal Law and Wickedness and Vice.