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Emerging Law Professional Certificate 

Emerging Law Professional Certificate 

Be at the forefront of new areas of law that impact technology and business  with a professional certificate in emerging law. 

Emerging Law Professional Certificate Overview

The legal field is constantly evolving. The Emerging Law Professional Certificate can provide you a broad understanding of some of the newest and most relevant areas of the law including artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, data science, eDiscovery, computational law, smart contracts, blockchain, and more.

Experienced lawyers can benefit by relating these emerging areas, such as eDiscovery, to their practice. And other legal professionals can utilize this legal certificate program to improve competencies in professional areas that regularly intersect with the law.

Flexible, Accessible, and Affordable

Professional certificate programs are designed with working professionals in mind and can be completed in just eight months for only $600 per course. Online learning options are also available to meet the needs of your busy schedule.

Interested in another in-demand area that intersects with the legal field? Visit our other professional certificate programs in Business Operations, Entrepreneurship, or Technology to learn more.

Complete four of the following six courses to earn your Technology Professional Certificate. Credits earned from these courses may be applied to the Master of Business, Law, and Technology degree program.

Regulation and Compliance

Review the various types of regulatory compliance requirements and examine related issues such as compliance audits, document retention policies, data security, IT procedures, privacy concerns, and governance. This course will also address the analytical tools necessary to understand the complexities of compliance as part of a risk analysis and the role of compliance in shaping an entity’s strategy.

Litigation and Its Alternatives

This online law certificate course explores the proceedings by which criminal and civil matters are litigated, and alternative strategies such as plea bargaining, restorative justice, negotiation, private and court-ordered commercial arbitration, private judging, mediation, negotiation, and neutral evaluation.

Introduction to Startup Law

In this course, you will gain an introduction to the legal knowledge necessary for entrepreneurs and emerging startups. Using innovative legal tools and processes, the course simulates situations where the law must be considered to launch an enterprise or grow a business.

Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and Computational Law

Blockchain technology gives us the framework to create a shared ledger system where various parties can report their compliance data/documentation, property records may be stored, personal identities can be managed, corporate governance may be automated, and decentralized currency may be exchanged. Smart contracts make use of the blockchain to execute, control, or document legally relevant events and actions according to the terms of a contract or an agreement. Computational law addresses the automation of legal reasoning to support transactions and compliance. The topics examined in this legal services certificate course will include formalism versus contextualism, form versus context, distributed ledgers, smart contract enforceability, blockchain regulation, and automated compliance.

Emerging Technology and the Law

A forum for students to consider the relationship between key emerging technologies and the law, you will discuss the legal implications of a particular emerging technology such as autonomous cars, drones, robots, big data, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, quantum computing, and 3D printing. You will be asked to consider whether existing legal frameworks are sufficient to address issues related to emerging technologies and the basis for new frameworks will be considered.

eDiscovery

Litigation often involves the collection, production, management, and analysis of electronically stored information (ESI). An enormous amount of data exists that may help make a case or predict the outcomes of approaches and legal rulings. Here, you will consider the legal and operational issues associated with managing electronic information as well as the legal rules governing this area.

Explore other learning pathways

In addition to the Emerging Law Professional Certificate, The Colleges of Law offers professional certificate programs in Business Operations, Entrepreneurship, and Technology.

Any of these professional certificates can be applied toward a Master of Business, Law, and Technology degree.

Professional legal courses may also be taken to expand your knowledge in high-demand subjects of emerging law such as Regulation and Compliance, Startup Law, Technology for Legal Professionals, and more.

Licensure: Except as provided in rule 4.30 of the Admissions Rules (Legal Education in a foreign state or country), completion of a professional law degree program at this law school other than for the Juris Doctor degree does not qualify a student to take the California Bar Examination or satisfy the requirements for admission to practice law in California.