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Technology is transforming our society and global relationships. Industry and government need a new breed of professionals who understand the legal, commercial and policy implications for the design and implementation of new products and new business models. This Graduate Certificate of New Technologies Law will equip lawyers and other professionals with skills and scholarship needed to face novel challenges and to develop innovative and practical approaches to solving problems thrown up by new technologies.

 

The program provides a flexible structure and includes a wide range of elective courses. All courses are taught by staff with international research reputations and draw upon ANU’s strategic location in the national capital.

Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate complex legal problems, concepts and risks arising from the implementation of new technologies.

2. Undertake legal research, legal writing and resolution of complex legal problems existing in operational domains created and supported by new technologies.

3. Research, reflect and write on the practice or theory of new technologies law.

4. Critically examine scholarship in relation to the use of new technologies in different use cases, including private and public law.

5. Develop and apply legal knowledge to complex legal technology problems in an analytical and creative manner.

6. Communicate to both legal and non-legal audiences, verbally and in writing, legal, policy and theoretical perspectives arising from the use of new technologies.