AI is weaving its way into decision-making and organisational processes across sectors and legal domains. To advise on compliance and to litigate around AI and machine learning, legal professionals need the foundational technical knowledge to ask the right questions and translate the answers to uncertain and emerging legal regimes.

This 16-hour course offers a practical, legally-focused primer in the technologies around AI, cutting deep into the relevant details, drawing on bleeding-edge research and slicing through noise, ideology and hype. We will use law to illuminate the technology and technology to illuminate the law, considering areas including data protection, emerging AI legislation, copyright and platform regulation. We will identify uncertainties in both law and technology, characterise them and show you how to bridge and work with them.

This 16-hour course is taught over 4 morning sessions from 16 - 19 June.

See the course website for full information about the learning outcomes:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ai-lawyers-technological-understanding-compliance-and-litigation

Early booking rates available until 31 January 2025

This 16-hour course will introduce the intricacies of competition law enforcement in a complex economy. It will introduce the major public policy issues that competition authorities around the world have grappled with, and these will be examined through several case studies. This course does not detail recent developments in the law; rather the aim is to ensure a more pluralist perspective on competition law enforcement, by exposing participants’ to different perspectives and therefore enabling them to develop a critical understanding of the broader socio-economic context of competition law enforcement.

This 16-hour course is taught over four afternoon sessions from 16 - 19 June 2025. 

To read more about the learning outcomes for this course go to: 
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/short-courses/executive-education/competition-law-public-policy-and-technology-complexity

Early booking rates available until 31 January 2025

Mediation is increasingly recognised as a preferred alternative to litigation, with jurisdictions worldwide embracing mandatory mediation policies. In England and Wales, recent reforms allow courts to compel parties to mediate, making mediation expertise more essential than ever. The Singapore Convention, now in force, is transforming international mediation by standardising enforcement mechanisms, further underscoring the importance of understanding how mediation intersects with arbitration.  
 
Whether you are already engaged in mediation or preparing to navigate its complexities, this course offers the knowledge and skills needed to excel in this critical area of dispute resolution.

Designed for practitioners, judges, and academics, the course explores key aspects of mediation, including preparation strategies, facilitation techniques, and the interplay between psychology and ethics.

This 16-hour course is taught over 4 morning sessions from 23 - 26 June.

See the course website for full information about the learning outcomes:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/short-courses/executive-education/mediation

Early booking rates available until 31 January 2025

The Executive Education programme offers an in-depth exploration of the principles and practices that underpin reinsurance transactions in today's marketplace. As risk transfers into the global reinsurance markets, capital markets are essential to the insurability of many risks. 

This programme focuses on both traditional and cutting-edge reinsurance and risk transfer structures designed to address modern challenges such as climate risks, cyber risks, and catastrophic events. Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of how reinsurance contracts are termed, formed, structured, and governed, with special attention given to the interaction between underlying insurance contract and the reinsurance contract and how this relationship impacts on the reinsurance terms and claims. The course will examine the structure and regulation of insurance-linked securities which are a means of risk transfer to, and of financing insurance risk in, the capital markets.  

This 16-hour course is taught over 2 days on 12 & 13 June 2025

See the course website for full information about the learning outcomes:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/reinsurance-law

Early booking rates available until 31 January 2025

Curious about how AI is reshaping the legal world? Discover the future of law and technology in this cutting-edge course on AI and legal innovation. 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the legal world, offering new ways to improve access to justice and increase efficiency. But as exciting as AI may be, it raises serious challenges. In this course, you'll explore the fascinating intersection between AI and law, tackling key issues like robot judges, algorithmic decision-making, document automation, and AI-powered chatbots. 

We'll dive into the ethical dilemmas surrounding AI, including concerns about confidentiality, accountability, and bias. You'll also explore strategies to promote the responsible and ethical use of AI in the legal sector. The course will cover global approaches to AI regulation, focusing on the UK, EU, and US, and review recent initiatives like the EU AI Act. You'll also look at international efforts to govern AI, including the AI Convention, and evaluate how laws can keep up with rapid tech advancements. 

This course will have 4.5 hours of teaching each day from Monday 30 June to Friday 11 July. 

See the course website for full information about the learning outcomes:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/ai-and-law

This course deals with central issues in corporate governance from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, focusing on the UK, US, and EU regulatory landscape. It will provide a thorough introduction to key principles of corporate law pertaining to the governance of corporations, such as directors’ duties and shareholder rights, as well as best practice standards laid down in corporate governance codes, which have become ubiquitous in corporate governance regulation. The course will furthermore examine topical problems at the centre of current policy debates, including shareholder activism and short termism, the regulation of executive remuneration, corporate social responsibility, environmental, social and corporate governance investing and reporting, and the debate about corporate purpose. 

This course will have 4-hours of teaching each day from Monday 30 June to Friday 11 July 2025. 

See the course website for full information about the learning outcomes:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/short-courses/summer-school/comparative-corporate-governance

This course is designed to give you a solid grounding in EU and UK competition law while addressing the key challenges shaping the field today. This course will explore how competition law maintains fair markets, with a strong focus on modern issues like sustainability, privacy, and the impact of digital technologies. You’ll also dive into the frameworks that guide competition law enforcement, comparing EU and UK approaches with US systems. 

Through in-depth analysis, you’ll uncover some of the most pressing issues facing competition authorities today, such as the regulation of digital markets, the sharing economy, and the challenges posed by sustainability initiatives. With real-world case studies and expert guidance, this course will equip you with the skills to understand, apply, and critique competition law, preparing you for the rapidly evolving legal landscape.

This course will have 4.5 hours of teaching each day from Monday 30 June to Friday 11 July 2025. 

See the course website for full information about the learning outcomes:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/short-courses/summer-school/competition-law-foundations-and-challenges