The development of moot courts based on an imaginary situation set in the near future (2030), involving technological developments that can reasonably be foreseen within this time frame (self-driving cars, robot-companions, etc.), enables the testing of current laws in this new context. The emergence of an enlightened debate about new technologies promotes pioneering thinking.
Professionals: lawyers and judges
The involvement of legal professionals in the University’s activities enhances the professionalisation of students during their university studies.
- Transmission of their professional expertise in an instructive and motivating manner
- Consolidation of expertise in new technologies and digital law
- Communication of the meaning and depth of the law, discussion of difficulties and constraints in the profession
- Benefits for the students’ training
Teachers / Research professors
Teachers are given opportunities to put their usual legal logic into perspective
- Consistency between training and practical needs (domain and competency)
- Transmission of the keys to understanding
- Proximity to students: transmitting, supervising, interacting, discussing during the practice of law
- Consolidation of expertise in new technologies and digital law
- Strengthening of links with companies and networks of companies specialising in new technologies