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.
Study opportunities
Focus on the intersection of law and tech by choosing from our range of tech-focused electives or specialising with the Legal Futures and Technology major.
CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH
Unbiased AI could improve women's rights
Award-winning UTS researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
More tech research explored by our students
PhD
Fairness in Automated Decision Making and AI
Public Interest Journalism on YouTube
AI and the legal profession
Media Pluralism
Planned Obsolescence
Juris Doctor (77740 Research Paper)
Joint Ownership of Patent Rights
Undergraduate (76040 Research Thesis)
Consumer Data Rights
Privacy and Wearables
Music Streaming and Copyright
Video Game Streaming and Copyright
The Right to Access the Benefits of Science
Artificial Intelligence and Inventorship
Digital Platform Regulation
Surveillance Capitalism
Patent Exceptions
Compulsory Licensing and Access to Medicines
Internship opportunities
Tech internship with Westpac
Yasmin and Louis completed an internship with Westpac, working with their compliance team on the use of artificial intelligence.
Law and technology internships
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
- Marrickville Legal Centre
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Subject options
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.
Feedback on the Law Tech Challenge:
What the Law Tech Challenge demonstrated in terms of new learning and skills development was [the students'] adaptability to embrace an entirely new and entirely ‘real-life’ legal subject matter.
- Justin Moses, In-house lawyer, AIME Mentoring (AIME), client in 2022
The skills learnt and people I have met throughout this Challenge directly led to my first law tech job as Legal Tech Solution Consultant for an in-house legal department whilst still a student.
- Ethan Huang, student 2018 Law Tech Challenge, lawyer, Gilbert + Tobin
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.
Tilly Harkin, Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Communication
Tilly is a Legal Transformation Graduates at Allens Linklaters, one of two inaugural graduates to join the recently established Legal Transformation Program. More
Ethan Huang, Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Business
Ethan is a Tech + Digital Lawyer at Gilbert + Tobin. His practice includes work in responsible AI, space law, privacy, and critical infrastructure. More
Jock Steel, Juris Doctor
Jock is Senior Legal Counsel with Cognizant Australia and New Zealand with over a decade of experience specialising in technology law. More
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.
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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.
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Co-Director of Centre for Media Transition, expert in digital communications and regulation; teaches in Media and Digital Platform Regulation.
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Expert in the regulation of technology and intellectual property; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and Intellectual Property.
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Expert in technology law and intellectual property; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and Intellectual Property.
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Expert in intellectual property law in particular copyright; teaches in Intellectual Property Law.
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Expert in regulation of digital platforms and social media; teaches in Regulating Technologies.
George Tian: Expert in cyber law and intellectual property; teaches in Intellectual Property Commercialisation
Jane Rawlings: Expert in trade mark and copyright law; teaches in Intellectual Property Law
Kris Wilson: Expert in cybersecurity and computing technologies; teaches in the Legal Futures and Technology major and privacy and surveillance law
Penny Crofts: Expert in criminal law theory and corporate crime; teaches in Criminal Law and Wickedness and Vice
Maryam Tabari: Expert in patent law and intellectual property commercialisation; teaches in Intellectual Property Law
Michael Davis: Expert in media and communications regulation
Natalie Stoianoff: Expert in global intellectual property law and the circular economy; teaches in Intellectual Property Law
Ramona Vijeyarasa: Expert in women’s rights, artificial intelligence, technology and the law: teacher in Ethics Law and Justice
Sacha Molitorisz: Expert in media and digital privacy; teaches in Privacy Law and Media Law
Honni van Rijswijk: Expert in the harms of technology (corporations, tort law, AI); theories of justice and technology; teaches Just Tech
