MSL students create two new student organizations that allow the law school community to collaborate in two important interdisciplinary areas: medicine and data.
MSL Students Develop Student Organizations Focused on Interdisciplinary Topics
Legal Technology
Mastering the Dynamic Landscape of Privacy and Cybersecurity Laws
The MSL is designed to give students the tools they need to read and understand the legal landscape, even as it changes – which it frequently does. Here are five tips from Professor Liisa Thomas on the best way to stay on top of the changing privacy and cybersecurity laws in the workplace.
The Latest Trend in Tech Talk: ChatGPT
This content creating platform from tech firm Open AI has been causing quite a stir across the legal and higher education spaces. While the AI technology behind ChatGPT can be helpful in certain workplace and learning situations, it also raises questions around topics of accuracy, plagiarism, and credibility.
Part 4: 2022 MSL Symposium Series
The Innovation Lab class in Northwestern’s Master of Science in Law (MSL) program allows students to devise a real-world solution to a problem that exists in law practice. The “clients” in this class are lawyers from various settings who have identified a problem in delivering legal services; MSL students work together with JD, LLM, and […]
Part 3: 2022 MSL Symposium Series
Northwestern Master of Science in Law (MSL) students often find themselves thinking about the cutting edge of technological development, so it is not a surprise that several symposium presentations focused on issues raised by the rapid evolution and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). While many of the symposium presentations mentioned artificial intelligence (it’s everywhere!), the […]
Part 1: 2022 MSL Symposium Series
Four years ago, one of our Master of Science in Law (MSL) student leaders, Javier Jara (MSL ’20), suggested that we hold an event to highlight the MSL and give students the opportunity to present the work they had completed or topics they had explored during the MSL program. This led to the first MSL […]
MSL Program Featured on Legal Evolution Blog
One of the companies that has really bought into the value of MSL training is VillageMD, a quickly growing provider of primary care services across the US. VillageMD has hired multiple graduates of the MSL program. In the words of VillageMD General Counsel Wendy Rubas: “The Northwestern MSLs have a solid grounding in law, so […]
Ralph Baxter of Legal Services Today Discusses How the Legal Industry Refers to Legal Service Professionals
We recently read the Legal Services Today blog and were encouraged to see Ralph Baxter’s post: Let’s Stop Calling Legal Service Professionals “Non-Lawyers.” To date, the legal industry has mostly referred to affiliated professionals who aren’t lawyers – no matter their expertise – as “non-lawyers.” Baxter suggests that rather than refer to professionals as what […]
#MakeLawBetter Conference at Illinois Tech Chicago-Kent College of Law
There are a ton of events in the Chicagoland area focused on the intersection of law and technology. For example, at the start of the academic year, legal tech professionals, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and many others gathered at Chicago-Kent Law School to discuss the future of the legal profession and how technology can and will enhance […]
Legal Technology Series: Bridging the Justice Gap
The Atlantic has shared “Justice for Some,” an article discussing the existing justice gap in the United States and the anticipated impact that innovation and legal technology will have on bridging that gap. Anybody with even a passing interest in the law must think about the “Justice Gap,” the difference between the legal needs of […]