Author: Maria Tzanou
School/Directorate/Research Institute: Law
Abstract: This proposal aims to explore the various ways Law students can approach and learn about new technologies and the relationship between these and the law. The contribution draws upon the innovative methods employed to teach a recently designed and developed module on ‘Law and New Technologies’ to third year undergraduate Law students at Keele University. The module which was awarded the 2018 Routledge/ALT Teaching Law with New Technologies Prize, adopts an active learning method and approaches technology in four ways: first, it encourages students to critically think about new technologies and evaluate how the law can approach these; second, it examines how new technologies respond to and incorporate the law (code is law); third, it uses new technologies at the object of socio-legal research; and, fourth, it employs technologies as a tool to enhance the actual learning in the module. In this way, new technologies play three distinct, crucial roles within the context of this module: they constitute the subject of the students’ learning, the object of their research and they are instrumental tools enhancing the learning process. An active learning approach is adopted in order to foster deeper understanding of the subject alongside transferrable skills based on teamwork, public speaking, advocacy and mooting.
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