Alumni share their start-up stories

MLS students heard from alumni working in the technology and start-up space at the latest Beyond Law School panel.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Alumnus streamlines verification process for lawyers

MLS alumnus Saul Wakerman is the co-founder of Atticus, a legal tech startup that provides law firms with a platform to complete document disclosure verifications.

Published 09 Oct 2026

MLS researchers successful in ARC funding for 2019

Published 09 Oct 2026

Making bail: legal app to improve prisoners’ access to justice

Designing an app to help prisoners apply for bail has changed the way that Erin Kanygin thinks about the law.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Law app helps people living with a disability seek support

Developing an app to help people living with a disability has given JD student Alexander Meredith valuable insight into the principles of human-centred design.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Human-centred design for legal help

Speaking at a public lecture at MLS, Dr Margaret Hagan from the Legal Design Lab at Stanford Law School explained how we can use design to make the legal system work better for people.

Published 09 Oct 2026

JD student breaks down barriers for post-prisoners in global legal tech competition

Melbourne JD student Monique Andreatta’s experience in the Law Without Walls X Social Entrepreneurship competition has further developed her understanding of how technology influences legal practice.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Blockchain and the law

MLS students were given an insight into how blockchain and smart contracts are transforming the legal profession at a panel discussion in May.

Published 09 Oct 2026

From West to East: WA student finds tech law focus at Melbourne

Bachelor of Commerce graduate Emily Mackay moved from Perth to study the Melbourne JD.

Published 09 Oct 2026

MLS hosts #BreakingLaw Corporate Law Hackathon

University of Melbourne students participated in the #BreakingLaw Corporate Law Hackathon presented by King & Wood Mallesons and Melbourne Law School.

Published 09 Oct 2026

MLS JD students get a taste of start-up law

JD students enrolled in the MLS elective subject Start-Up Law have been given a front-row seat to pitches from the Melbourne Accelerator Project (MAP) start-up finalists.

Published 09 Oct 2026

MLS at the cutting edge of innovation and technology

Melbourne Law School’s work advancing legal innovation in education has received industry recognition, with former MLS Dean Professor Carolyn Evans named in the 2017 Legal Innovation Index.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Investigating disruptive technologies from a legal perspective

Melbourne Law School’s JD elective New Technology Law gives students the opportunity to explore the challenges and the potential of innovative technology in the law.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Lights, (drone) camera, and action

JD Student Kit Mun Lee reflects on what he learned during his summer spent working with PwC’s new digital and technology law team headed by Cameron Whittfield. During the MLS initiative to develop a new cutting edge subject in Technology, Innovation and the Law, Kit found a pathway that brought his experience in technology and law together with his passion for collaborative film making production.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Tomorrow's Lawyers: Technology, Innovation and Law at MLS

Second year JD student Stephen Lee was the perfect candidate to help investigate subject material for the new MLS subject ‘New Technology Law’. With an undergraduate in Business Information Systems and experience as an IT consultant at KPMG, he has been able to bring together his experience with technology and his studies in law to turn the stuff of science fiction movies into a cutting edge JD elective. Stephen tells MLS all about his work on the new subject.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Exploring the connection between politics, technology and the law

JD student Danielle El-Hajj has seen first-hand the lingering effect that armed conflict can have on people’s lives. When given the opportunity through final-year elective Law Apps to work with a not-for-profit organisation, she was drawn to the work of Refugee Legal.

Published 09 Oct 2026

PwC Legal partner brings technological know-how to MLS in new JD subject

Digital and Technology Law Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Cameron Whittfield has spent over twenty years working at the intersection of law and technology. This year, he is co-teaching a new subject at MLS: New Technology Law.

Published 09 Oct 2026

Staying ahead of the curve

In his third year of the JD, Arj Wijegunaratne enrolled in Law Apps to equip himself with the skills he saw as important to the future of the legal services industry.

Published 09 Oct 2026