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).
• Students should consider forming multi-track teams as such projects may often have an overlap 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 component that forms part of a wider business process could include the digitalisation of producing, reviewing or retrieving relevant contractual documents for the benefit of a business unit in a corporate entity; checking for regulatory and internal policy compliance; protecting Intellectual Property rights; and increasing Trust and Safety for user-facing digital products.

Assessment Weightings

The assessment weightings for IS483 and IS485 are available here.

Proposal Templates

• IS485 Generic Research Template [docx]