Law Without Walls

What is Law Without Walls?

The LWOW program is broken up into two segments. The first segment is a four-week LWOW Sprint-X run in January and February 2021, and consists of 4 x 4-hour workshops. The second segment, LWOW Sprint-X Inc., begins the week after the Sprint-X.

You will receive one unit credit (MLL338/MLJ738) for participating in the program.

What's involved?

First segment

Students will be assigned to a team made up of student hackers, volunteer mentors and team leader hackers from one of our sponsoring law firms, law companies, or corporate legal departments.

You'll meet online each Wednesday as a community to workshop and complete exercises in teams to help develop Projects of Worth. In between weekly community workshops, student hackers will hack on their projects (guided by the team’s project manager, volunteer mentors, sponsor lead hackers and the LWOW Leadership team).

Second segment

You'll carry on with your Sprint-X team (including volunteer mentors/project managers and any sponsors that stay involved). You'll continue to refine, distill and incubate your team’s Projects of Worth developed during LWOW Sprint-X. The focus over the second segment (approximately three months) is developing a full business plan, challenging assumptions and prototyping.

Teams attend weekly webinars to contextualise innovation in law by covering the broad topics that frame the narrower challenges assigned to teams in the LWOW Sprint. Topics of these recordings include consumer storytelling, prototyping, branding and business planning and more. Teams also have various milestone meetings with the LWOW leadership team.

The LWOW program will end with a virtual ConPosium in April where three finalists will be chosen.

On 21 April, LWOW hopes to have multiple PopPosiums: in person viewing parties around the globe to network, celebrate and select a winning team in various locations.

How is the Deakin team put together?

We’ll select a team of three students to take part in the 2021 Law Without Walls program. Students can be completing their undergraduate degree or their Juris Doctor.

If you're interested in being part of the team, please submit an expression of interest to a.kreutzmanngallasch@deakin.edu.au. Your EOI needs to include:

your CV
a copy of your academic results (a copy downloaded from StudentConnect is sufficient)
a short covering letter explaining your understanding of LWOW and your availability for the required times as described above.

Contact us

If you have any questions about the Law Without Walls program, or if you'd like to submit an expression of interest, please get in touch with the LWOW team coach.

Antje Kreutzmann-Gallasch
Deakin Law Without Walls team coach
a.kreutzmanngallasch@deakin.edu.au

Deakin students at Law Without Walls

Deakin students participated in Law Without Walls in 2019 and 2020. Our students can testify that the program was an incredible opportunity to see law from a different perspective, and one that's has greatly enhanced their study experience and potential career opportunities.

Read about the 2019 team

Key dates

Events and deadlines	Date
Free information session	16 September 2020, 5pm–6pm
Expression of interest submissions close	TBC
Selected team members advised	7 October 2020
LWOW Sprint-X team assignment due date	Early January 2021
LWOW Sprint-X workshops (each virtual workshop is four hours in duration)	20 January 2021, 27 January 2021, 3 February 2021, 10 February 2021
LWOW Spring-X Inc	Commences after LWOW Sprint-X, continuing with weekly webinars on Wednesdays
ConPosium event – three finalists chosen	TBC
PopPosium global event – winning teams announced (subject to COVID-19 restrictions)	21 April 2021
Networking opportunities for the LWOW community	November–December 2021