Duke Center on Law & Tech

Directed by Professor Jeff Ward, the Duke Center on Law & Tech (DCLT) orchestrates Duke’s leadership in legal technology. The DCLT aims: >>to bolster the depth and interconnectedness of Duke’s offerings at the intersection of law and technology; >>to understand, re-imagine, shape, and lead the next generation of tech-enabled legal practice; and >>to employ the tools of the law to ensure that rapidly emerging technologies empower and ennoble people. As an active, student-focused center, DCLT’s activities include: DUKE LAW TECH LAB A pre-accelerator program aimed at providing companies creating legal, compliance, or policy technology tools with the connections and insights to take them to the next level. The DLTL runs annually and culminates in a Demo Day, offering opportunities for Duke Law alumni and friends get involved as judges, subject-matter experts, and/or advisors for the program. THE ACCESS TECH TOOLS INITIATIVE A collection of tech-development projects housed in our legal clinics that aim expressly at empowering under-resourced communities and expanding access to legal services. LAW BY DESIGN Workshops and curriculum infusion for students and faculty which apply the process and principles of human-centered design thinking. DCLT SCHOLARS & FELLOWS We support Scholars & Fellows who offer essential connections to key disciplines of emerging technology and offer thought leadership that extends the influence of Duke Law. They participate in key collaborative networks and facilitate thought leadership by having a presence at key conferences, at core workshops, and in respected journals. THOUGHT LEADERSHIP We invite experts to campus to share on cutting-edge technology topics with legal and ethical implications. We also support Faculty, Scholars, & Fellows in presenting at conferences on topics such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, virtual reality, privacy and cybersecurity, eDiscovery, drones, robotics, and brain-computer interfaces.