Juristische Fakultät

Tübingen Students Explore the Future of Legal Tech at the German Legal Tech Summit 2024

On Nov. 7th AI MEETS LAW invited law students from the University of Tuebingen for a second time to attend the German Legal Tech Summit in Hannover – an opportunity to gain insights into state-of-the-art legal tech solutions from law firms, legal departments as well as the public sector.

After the official welcoming by the organizers, Linus Neumann from the Chaos Computer Club kicked-off the summit by a thought-provoking keynote on Hacking, its potential harms and how protect against it. Here, Linus Neumann emphasized the importance of implementing mechanism to prevent and detect hacking early on.

Throughout the day, the students from AI MEETS LAW attended different panels, presentations and workshops covering a wide range of topics such as design thinking, legal prompt engineering, AI regulation, data protection and implementation of legal tech projects. 

Parallel to that, the German Legal Tech Summit invited to watch start-ups compete for the pitch trophy in the legal fight club and offered to engage with several providers of legal tech solutions.

Overall, compared to last year’s German Legal Tech Summit this year’s showed big improvement, not only by relocating to the Hannover Messe Zentrum, but also mirrored by the number of speakers and attendees. Still, the German Legal Tech Summit largely attracts exhibitors and legal tech enthusiasts from northern Germany. In contrast, AI MEETS LAW hopes to represent Tuebingen and attend for a third time in 2025 to broaden and strengthen the exchange of ideas in the legal tech domain.