The Legal Academy’s Engagements with Lawtech : Technology Narratives and Archetypes as Drivers of Change

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Galloway, Kathrine, Webb, Julian, Bartlett, Francesca, Flood, John and Webley, Lisa. (2019). The Legal Academy’s Engagements with Lawtech : Technology Narratives and Archetypes as Drivers of Change. Law, Technology and Humans. 1(1), pp. 27-45. https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.v1i0.1337
AuthorsGalloway, Kathrine, Webb, Julian, Bartlett, Francesca, Flood, John and Webley, Lisa
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This article argues that legal education is currently grappling with three narratives of technology’s role in either augmenting, disrupting or ending the current legal services environment. It identifies each of these narratives within features of curriculum design that respond to legal professional archetypes of how lawyers react to lawtech. In tracing how these influential narratives and associated archetypes feature in the law curriculum, the article maps the evolving intersection of lawtech, the legal profession and legal services delivery in legal education. It concludes by proffering the additional narrative of ‘adaptive professionalism’, which emphasises the complex and contextual nature of the legal profession, and therefore provides a more coherent direction for adaptation of the law curriculum. Through this more nuanced and grounded approach, it is suggested that law schools might equip law graduates to embrace technological developments while holding on to essential notions of ethical conduct, access to justice and the rule of law.

KeywordsLawtech; Legal Education; Curriculum; Legal Profession; End of Lawyers; Disruption; Adaptive Professionalism; Regulation
Year01 Jan 2019
JournalLaw, Technology and Humans
Journal citation1 (1), pp. 27-45
PublisherQueensland University of Technology
ISSN2652-4074
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.5204/lthj.v1i0.1337
Web address (URL)https://lthj.qut.edu.au/article/view/1337
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