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Our research is conducted by our cutting-edge LegalTech team within the Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers develop new data-driven insights into legal knowledge that support transformative LegalTech research, contributing to new innovative technologies that tackle problems such as document discovery, knowledge representation, contract negotiation, and more.

Take a look at the Lab’s newest research report, in collaboration with LegalBeagles, investigating the impact of COVID-19 on legal advice forums.

This report explores the role that the LegalBeagles online advice forum played in supporting consumers seeking advice on employment issues, with a particular focus on the early phases of the COVID-19 pandemic (March 2020 - December 2021).

To celebrate the launch of this report the Lab hosted an event with expert panelists to further explore the role the role that online forums play in supporting access to justice, including the safeguards needed to ensure forums provide reliable guidance and advice, the challenges encountered, and the ways in which government, regulators and legal professionals can support the development of a healthy ecosystem of online legal forums in the UK.

You can watch the video for the launch event of the report here:

Research News

Check out some of our recent research blogs, find out what the team is currently working on, and get insights into a day in the life of our research team.

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Wales: A Global Leader in LegalTech
Wales: A Global Leader in LegalTech

The latest report from the Legal Innovation Lab Wales; ‘The LegalTech Ecosystem in Wales, Between Start-Ups, Law Firms and Law Schools: A Road Map for the Future’, offers a comprehensive analysis of the sector, with a view to a bright future, with Wales as a global leader in LegalTech.

Evaluating LILW’s past 4 years
Evaluating LILW’s past 4 years

Following on from Inception and Mid-Term Evaluations, completed in 2020 and 2022, a Final Evaluation was undertaken by SQW Ltd., to thoroughly analyse the project and its results. The main findings of the Report, were split into Conclusions and Recommendations, as follows.

Celebrating the successes of the Lab
Celebrating the successes of the Lab

A look back at the successes of Legal Innovation Lab Wales through our WEFO funding period

Exploring engagement and networking for research success
Exploring engagement and networking for research success

Exploring the importance of engagement, collaboration and networking and the positive impact it can have on research outcomes.

My Journey app launch event
My Journey app launch event

The My Journey App launch event, held on the 28th of Feb 2023, discussed a very important but often overlooked topic of the digital exclusion of offenders and celebrated the creation of an application that helps prison leavers to rehabilitate into society.

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Take a look at some of our LegalTech research topics below to see how we can help you develop innovative solutions to legal problems.

LegalTech Research Topics

  • Identifying how regulation will change to address the legal issues created by new technology.

  • Investigating how blockchain and smart contract solutions can transform legal processes.

  • Mapping the changing landscape of legal terminology as it adapts to accommodate new innovation.

  • Employing statistical models and machine learning to leverage legal data for insights into legal processes.

  • Investigating the implications of digital rights and how they shape our relationship with the information we create and share online.

  • Understanding the bias' that can be introduced through the employment of algorithms for decision making.

  • Investigating solutions for more effective and standardised IP licensing.

  • Mapping and analysing trends across the legal profession to understand how legaltech is changing the way we work.

  • Identifying and driving standards to allow for the more effective sharing of legal knowledge between technologists, researchers, and legal professionals.

  • Addressing the gap between legal research and practitioners.

Research Themes within the HRC School of Law

  • A focal point for research on crime and justice issues.

  • Assessing and responding to threats in cyberspace.

  • Free legal advice, on campus, from students and pro-bono legal professionals.

  • Research, debate, education and knowledge exchange of children and young people.

  • Formed to promote research of the highest standards in the fields of international shipping and trade.