Course overview
Artificial intelligence creates legal questions well before a system reaches production. Legal teams must determine whether proposed uses are permitted, identify the data and intellectual property rights involved, allocate liability in supplier contracts, and establish evidence that decisions were reviewed responsibly. Generative AI adds further risks: inaccurate outputs, confidential information entering public tools, synthetic content, discrimination claims, and uncertainty over ownership. Organisations need lawyers and compliance professionals who can assess these issues without treating AI as either a prohibited novelty or an unregulated software purchase.
This course examines the legal framework for artificial intelligence, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, intellectual property law, product liability, consumer protection, employment law, competition law, and rules affecting digital evidence. Participants learn to classify AI use cases, conduct legal risk assessments, distinguish provider and deployer obligations, review AI vendor terms, set human oversight requirements, and prepare governance documentation. The programme addresses both predictive systems and generative AI, with cases involving financial services, public bodies, healthcare, human resources, customer service, and commercial contracting.
Teaching combines focused legal briefings with case analysis, contract-review tasks, risk-scoring discussions, and governance design workshops. Participants work with practical materials such as an AI use-case register, a legal risk assessment, a vendor due-diligence checklist, and model governance clauses. They leave with a structured framework for advising business stakeholders, briefing senior management, and documenting defensible decisions about AI procurement, development, deployment, and monitoring.
The course suits in-house lawyers, compliance officers, privacy professionals, risk managers, procurement specialists, policy advisers, and technology leaders who already work with legal, regulatory, or operational risk. It is designed for professionals who need to translate AI regulation into practical controls and contractual requirements.
