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.
Contents
Timeline
Please refer to this page.
C&L Project Types
| IS485: 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
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You should have passed the following modules
Min GPA 3.4 (or prior exemption from programme director)
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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):
- Ethics and Compliance Management
- Legal Management Tools
- Contract Life Cycle Management
- Legal Matter Management
- Privacy Management Tools
- E-Discovery / Digital Forensics
- Contract Analytics
- Smart Contracts
- Data and Analytics Governance
- AI Governance / Explainable AI
- Consent and Preference Management
- Data Breach Response
- Risk Management
- Trust and Safety
- Subject Rights and Requests
Assessment Weightings
The assessment weightings for IS483 and IS485 are available here.
For the C&L assessment component (called track specific in the grading rubric), the team will need to demonstrate how their legal knowledge or understanding of legal-related processes contributed to the value-add and success of the project.
Proposal Templates
- IS485 Generic Research Template [docx]
Current Projects
Coming soon.
