16 June 2021
As technology advances, firms will have to face thorny issues such as privacy, fake news and intellectual property.
Traditional lawyers and programmers may not be able to navigate these complexities due to limits in their training, said Assistant Professor of Computing and Law at the Singapore Management University Lim How Khang.
To equip more graduates to work at the growing intersection between law and technology, Prof Lim helped to set up SMU’s four-year Computing and Law undergraduate course, in which students take modules from both the university’s law and computing faculties.
In February this year, the National University of Singapore’s law faculty announced that it was looking to smoothen the transition for transfer students from other degree courses in the university, with the hope of injecting students with technological or business knowledge into the law cohort.