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The MIT Legal Hackathon is an online participatory event taking place between 12 June and 15 June and serves as the kick-off of a series of projects and other activities happening through the summer of 2014.
The goal of the event is to bring together people to collaborate on solving legal and technical issues and challenges as law and business become fully digital. Software developers, business people, academics, government employees, advocates and others. Participants will have the opportunity to offer or join sessions to collaborate on 'hacking the law' by developing computer and legal projects. The themes include:
View the full programme.
qLegal is part of iLINC, the European Network of legal incubators at leading law schools, including the universities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, Leuven and Brooklyn. The iLINC project is coordinated by the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London and is funded under the European Commission’s FP7 programme.
iLinc partner Professor Askin of Brooklyn Law School will speak on the session 'Libertating Your Laws for the Internet'. Students from qLegal will also participate in this event.
This is a free online event. To register, please visit the MIT Legal Hackathon web site.
For more information, please contact qlegal@qmul.ac.uk.
Please note that qLegal events may be photographed or video and audio recorded. These materials will be used for internal and external promotional purposes only by Queen Mary University of London. If you object to appearing in the photographs, please let our photographer know on the day. Alternatively you can email qlegal@qmul.ac.uk in advance of the event that you are attending.