Computer science and law don't go together? You bet they do!

3 December 2024

Professional experience shows: Digital applications can hardly be developed without a legal perspective. However, this interdisciplinary work does not look very good at university. Only very rarely do law and computer science students come together for joint project work during their studies. This means that they miss out on important career-relevant experience.

Computer science and law don't go together? You bet they do!

Shownotes

Lukas Musumeci, Anton Sefkow and Marten Borchers want to change this and have come together in an unusual combination (only at first glance) and jointly launched the teaching project ‘Innovation by Legal Design Thinking - Student Digitalization Lab’.

It was funded in 2023 and 2024 at the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab for short) and has already been successfully implemented in several semesters at the Faculty of Law and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg.
In this interview, the three report on the structure of the seminar, the collaboration with external partner organisations and the developments the students have undergone in the process.

The aim: using a no-code tool and in close collaboration with external practice partners, students of law and computer science jointly develop digital applications and reflect on their learning path from start to finish. In cooperation with organisations such as Caritas or lagfa (the state working group of volunteer agencies in Hamburg), students undergo interdisciplinary work and communication processes that prepare them for their future careers.

Shownotes:

Funding period: 01.04.2023 - 31.03.2024

Funding website: Innovation by Legal Design Thinking - Student Digitalization Lab

Seminar description in the course catalogue of the UHH, winter semester 23/24

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This and other interviews on funded teaching projects at the DDLitLab can be found here.

Concept & production: Julia Pawlowski, Sven Rehder, Simon Steinhauser
Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab, August-October 2024

Spotlight: Data Literacy Teaching Lab

In our series "Spotlight: Data Literacy Teaching Lab", we talk to lecturers who have received funding for their teaching projects from the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab for short) at the University of Hamburg.

What were the innovative ideas of the projects? What were the particular didactic and content-related challenges, and the highlights?
And are there perhaps specific tips for other teachers who would also like to set up a new teaching project and are looking for experience reports?

We will clarify this and more in our look at and behind the scenes. Spotlight on!