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Ø Introducing legal practitioners as teachers in academic classes. Judges, lawyers and legal

counsels (and all that legal practitioners which will arise as new future professional figures in the
new innovative, competitive and technological society) should cooperate with academics in

taking lessons.
Ø Escaping classes. That’s not what you think of. We would like to see students visiting the

future place of work (i.e. Tribunals, Public Administration’s offices, Law firms, Firms, Societies,
Companies, Start-ups, etc.)

Ø Early traineeship/legal practice. Universities should improve the possibility to anticipate

legal practice and other professional experiences during their last years of academic classes (the
University of Milan already does do with the advocate legal practice).

3. Thinking about innovation, before really comprehend the role of new technologies in relation to

law schools and professionals’ schools, we have to quest ourselves what it has to be done for
acknowledged and prepared for them. The first question that comes up is if technology should be

only part of the existing fields of law or if we need something more.
Probably, examining technologies issues in every field of law is not enough. It is also important to

introduce new courses in law and technology helping students to acquire:
Ø A general technology knowledge – a mandatory class concerning, id est Informatics;

algorithms; AI; big data; block-chain;

Ø Specific technical knowledge for lawyers – Telematic Judicial Process; Informatic
documents; digital signature, etc;

Ø Tools and methods to manage law problems involving new technologies – starting from
given cases or open problems, meeting and brainstorming on how to solve cases or regulate

new technology (method);
Ø A general overview of the main aspects and open topics in the regulation of

technologies analyzed in a multi-disciplinary way – For example, now, privacy, AI, block-
chain, platforms.