AI for Legal Professionals (II): Tools for Lawyers (FutureLearn)

AI for Legal Professionals (II): Tools for Lawyers (FutureLearn)

Discover programming with Python, and the AI tools that lawyers, legal educators, and regulators can use to deliver services. Explore artificial intelligence, programming, and machine learning. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning are transforming the way our world works – and their influence is increasingly being felt in the legal profession. On this introductory course, you’ll explore common supervised and unsupervised machine learning problems, including classification, regression, clustering, and ranking.

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You’ll learn about the tools used by programmers to create code and collaborate, as well as receive training in the key programming language Python, and the basic artificial intelligence and machine learning tools available, such as Scikit-learn and Google’s TensorFlow.

What topics will you cover?

  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Legal Analytics
  • Data mining in law
  • Natural language processing and machine learning techniques in law
  • Legal Reasoning
  • Training data for legal domain and government
  • Blockchain and Law
  • Legal Design and legal Forensics

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Evaluate the various views concerning the rationale for and objectives of artificial intelligence with a view to guide further learning
  • Compare the basic forms of artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Apply sound research methods to analyze various artificial intelligence problems
  • Demonstrate a basic understanding of tools used in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data sciences.
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