Professional experience shows that digital applications can hardly be developed without legal input. However, this interdisciplinary work is rarely seen in university studies. Law and computer science students very rarely come together for joint projects during their studies. This means they miss out on important career-relevant experience.
Lukas Musumeci, Anton Sefkow, and Marten Borchers want to change that. They have come together in a combination that is unusual (only at first glance) and have jointly launched the teaching project “Innovation by Legal Design Thinking – Student Digitalization Lab.”
The project was funded over two funding rounds totaling three years at the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab for short) and has already been successfully implemented over several semesters at the Faculty of Law and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Hamburg. In this interview, the three talk about setting up the seminar, collaborating with external partner organizations, and the developments the students have undergone in the process.
The goal: Using a no-code tool and in close cooperation with external partners, law and computer science students jointly develop digital applications and reflect on their learning journey from start to finish. In cooperation with institutions such as Caritas or lagfa (State Working Group of Volunteer Agencies in Hamburg), students thus undergo interdisciplinary work and communication processes that prepare them for their future careers.