Computing and Law

Introduction

Welcome! This wiki page provides information specific to Computing and Lay application and research projects (from AY2022/23 Term 2 onwards only).

Please read this in conjunction with the general IS Project Experience course information page.

Confused? Muddled? Help is at hand! Please drop the C&L Programme Director, LIM How Khang , an email.

Timeline

Please refer to this page.

C&L Project Types

	IS 485: C&L Application project	IS483: C&L Research project
Team Size	4-6	2-3
Scope	• Requirements gathering • Scoping • Design and development (POC) • Testing (system and user)	• Research (literature review and scoping) • Data collection • Solution approach • Solution implementation • Report
Recommended Skill-sets / Pre-requisites	You should have passed the following modules IS111 Introduction to Programming IS112 Data Management IS211 Interaction Design and Prototyping CS206 Software Product Management (can be a co-requisite) LAW401 Intellectual Property Law LAW486 Privacy & Data Protection Law (can be a co-requisite)	You should have passed the following modules IS111 Introduction to Programming IS112 Data Management IS211 Interaction Design and Prototyping CS206 Software Product Management (can be a co-requisite) LAW401 Intellectual Property Law LAW486 Privacy & Data Protection Law (can be a co-requisite) Min GPA 3.4 (or prior exemption from programme director) Students will need to find a suitable SCIS/YPHSL faculty member to be their supervisor. For industry research projects, students will need to additionally find an industry mentor.

Multi-Track Application Projects

C&L students may form project teams with students from any of the IS major tracks. Please take note of the following:

• Your team may include members from one of the IS major tracks only. For example, you can have a C&L+BA, C&L+DCS, C&L+SMT or C&L+FT team, but NOT a C&L+DCS+FT team.
• There must be at least two C&L students in your team.
• There must be at least two students from the same IS major track.

Acceptance of multi-track project proposals and project grading will be on the basis of required criteria being fulfilled for both the tracks.

Guidelines for Project Selection

• For IS485 projects, the goal is to design and implement an application that addresses a legal-related problem. Straightforward examples are projects that are sponsored by legal or justice organisations (e.g. law firms, the judiciary), legal or compliance departments of companies and financial institutions, or community justice organisations that provide access to services that address justiciable problems and meet legal needs (e.g. pro bono centres or NGOs).

• For IS483 projects, the goal is to introduce students to interdisciplinary academic and industry research in computing and law. Students will get to experience first-hand, the challenges of research, discovery and innovation, and work at the frontiers of research in the field. IS483 projects should aim to implement and test recently published algorithms and techniques applied to legal-related tasks and answer research questions that are more broadly applicable across the legal domain.

• Students should consider forming multi-track teams for IS485 as some C&L projects might overlap in scope with the IS major tracks such as BA, DCS, FT or SMT. The main consideration for multi-track projects is the need to ensure that the legal component of the project is not insignificant or trivial. Examples of a legal/compliance component that forms part of a wider business process in a corporate entity could include (some of these are taken from Gartner's Legal Technology Hype Cycle):

1. Ethics and Compliance Management
2. Legal Management Tools
3. Contract Life Cycle Management
4. Legal Matter Management
5. Privacy Management Tools
6. E-Discovery
7. Contract Analytics
8. Smart Contracts
9. Data and Analytics Governance
10. AI Governance / Explainable AI
11. Consent and Preference Management
12. Data Breach Response
13. Risk Management
14. Trust and Safety
15. Subject Rights and Requests

Assessment Weightings

The assessment weightings for IS483 and IS485 are available here.

For the C&L specific assessment (under "track specific" in the grading rubric), the team should demonstrate how their legal knowledge or understanding of legal processes contributed to the value-add and success of the project.

Proposal Templates

• IS485 Generic Research Template [docx]