JJUA55241U Legal Innovation and Event Management - NOTE: THE COURSE IS CANCELLED IN THE AUTUMN SEMESTER 2018

The subject allows for immersion within a self-chosen legal area, with the opportunity for building and expanding one’s own professional network. There is thus the possibility of selfchosen specialization, where the student can work with the law as a tool for problem solving and value creation.

The learning goals are achieved by writing an independent paper (synopsis) about a concrete, self-chosen issue of value-creating character within a self-chosen part of the law. The paper must be presented and defended orally at a public academic event. The public academic event is organized, marketed, and held in collaboration with the other course participants. The event
must involve relevant external actors from the public and private sectors, e.g., as audience, speakers, etc. The student associations Foreningen Argument and Lex Loci are cooperating with the course as sparring partners.

Students will develop innovation and entrepreneurship competencies as well as develop communication skills regarding the dissemination of complex legal material. The course supports the preparation of the master’s thesis and, especially, its oral defense. In addition to the above named competencies, students gain training in other career-advancing skills, such as collaboration, project management, and event management.

Students will choose jointly, and under moderation of the course conveners, one or more general themes for which they wish to organize a public, academic event. Such themes might
address, e.g., one of the UN’s 15 Global Challenges, such as health problems, climate change, differences between rich and poor, etc. Such events may be, e.g., panel debates, workshops, seminars, or poster presentations. The students themselves must be their own Legal Innovators and event managers, as they themselves organize and market the event as well as contact relevant external actors who have an interest in the topic or topics. Through this, students do not only develop innovation and entrepreneurship competencies. They also further develop their professional networks.

Organizing and convening the event forms one part of the overall exam. This part of the exam consists of a paper (synopsis) and an oral defense in the form of participation in the event as presenter. A synopsis may be done individually or in small groups. The students get prepared for conveying their paper by a rhetorician, who participates in a test-run of the presentations
and provides feedback on the papers.

During the course, students receive ongoing feedback on their work on their papers from the course conveners and from the other participants to ensure a high quality of the final product.
At the end of the course, students may want to submit their paper to a relevant journal for publication, e.g. the UCPH Fiscal Relations Law Journal www.jura.ku.dk/firejournal).

All legal areas and disciplines are relevant to this course, and there are no special prerequisites for taking the course, except for a desire to further dwelve into a legal subject, collaborating on organizing and convening an academic event, and to become your own Legal Innovator and
event manager.