Artificial Intelligence and Law Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends In-house Counsel, Compliance Officers and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-L-067

Before you join: Participants should have practical familiarity with legal compliance, contracts, privacy, risk management, technology procurement, or digital transformation.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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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.

What you will be able to do

  • Classify AI use cases using risk, impact, autonomy and data criteria
  • Apply EU AI Act obligations to providers, deployers and affected parties
  • Conduct an AI legal risk assessment covering privacy, intellectual property and liability
  • Review AI supplier contracts using data rights, audit and indemnity provisions
  • Draft human oversight, transparency and record-keeping requirements for AI systems
  • Assess generative AI outputs for confidentiality, copyright, accuracy and discrimination risks
  • Build an AI governance workflow using the NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001
  • Prepare an AI deployment briefing with legal controls, owners and escalation routes

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Advise stakeholders on AI proposals using a structured legal assessment method
  • Identify contractual protections before approving AI suppliers and platforms
  • Produce clearer legal advice on generative AI use and content ownership
  • Contribute credible AI governance recommendations to senior decision makers
  • Recognise when specialist regulatory, technical or litigation advice is required

For your organisation

  • Reduces avoidable exposure from poorly assessed AI procurement and deployment
  • Improves evidence of lawful, accountable and documented AI decision making
  • Strengthens vendor accountability for data handling, performance and incident response
  • Creates consistent review criteria for generative AI tools and business use cases
  • Supports earlier identification of discrimination, privacy and intellectual property risks

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can describe AI system types, legal roles and risk factors consistently.

  • Machine learning, rules engines and generative models distinguished for legal analysis
  • Training, inference and fine-tuning mapped to relevant legal responsibilities
  • Provider, deployer, importer and distributor roles assigned under regulatory models
  • Classifying use cases by purpose, affected persons, autonomy and impact
  • Risk registers connecting system functions, harms, controls and accountable owners
  • Materiality thresholds separating experimentation, internal tools and high-impact deployments

Participants can apply core AI Act duties to proposed AI use cases.

  • EU AI Act risk categories and prohibited practices examined
  • High-risk system requirements for risk management, data governance and documentation
  • Transparency duties for chatbots, synthetic content and emotion recognition systems
  • General-purpose AI obligations, model documentation and downstream information duties
  • Conformity assessment, post-market monitoring and serious incident reporting requirements
  • Extraterritorial reach assessed through providers, deployers and affected persons

Participants can assess personal data processing and automated decision risks in AI systems.

  • GDPR roles, lawful bases and purpose limitation applied to AI
  • Article 22 safeguards assessed for solely automated significant decisions
  • Data protection impact assessments structured around necessity, proportionality and residual risk
  • Special category data controls for training, testing and model operation
  • Data minimisation techniques including sampling, masking, pseudonymisation and retention limits
  • Cross-border transfers evaluated for cloud-hosted models and vendor support

Participants can identify intellectual property and confidentiality issues affecting AI inputs and outputs.

  • Copyright subsistence assessed in training data, prompts and generated outputs
  • Text and data mining exceptions compared with licence restrictions
  • Trade secret safeguards applied to proprietary datasets and confidential prompts
  • Database rights and scraping restrictions examined for data acquisition
  • Output ownership clauses reviewed for allocation, warranties and permitted use
  • Attribution, provenance and content labelling requirements considered for synthetic media

Participants can identify likely liability routes and allocate responsibilities for AI-related harm.

  • Negligence analysis connects foreseeability, duty, causation and loss
  • Product liability principles applied to defective AI-enabled products and services
  • Misrepresentation risks arising from inaccurate automated advice and content
  • Consumer protection duties tested against dark patterns and misleading claims
  • Causation evidence mapped across models, data, users and operational controls
  • Incident records structured to preserve evidence for complaints and claims

Participants can assess discrimination, employment and rights-based concerns in AI decisions.

  • Indirect discrimination tested through disparate impact and selection-rate analysis
  • Employment AI uses assessed for recruitment, performance and disciplinary decisions
  • Human rights principles applied to privacy, equality, dignity and due process
  • Meaningful human review defined through authority, competence and intervention records
  • Explainability requirements matched to decision significance, audience and contestability
  • Accessibility and reasonable adjustment considerations incorporated into AI service design

Participants can review AI procurement arrangements for legal protections and operational accountability.

  • AI supplier due diligence covers data sources, model controls and incidents
  • Statements of work define intended use, performance measures and exclusions
  • Data processing clauses allocate controller, processor and subprocessor responsibilities
  • Audit rights specify evidence, frequency, remediation and access limitations
  • Indemnities address intellectual property claims, data breaches and regulatory penalties
  • Exit provisions cover data return, model transition and business continuity

Participants can design governance controls for accountable AI approval and monitoring.

  • NIST AI RMF functions applied to govern, map, measure and manage
  • ISO/IEC 42001 management system elements adapted for AI governance
  • Three lines model assigns business, risk and assurance responsibilities
  • AI use-case inventory records purpose, data, owner and risk rating
  • Approval gates establish legal review, testing evidence and accountable sign-off
  • Monitoring metrics track drift, errors, complaints, overrides and incidents

Participants can set practical legal controls for generative AI tools and outputs.

  • Prompt handling rules protect confidential, personal and privileged information
  • Retrieval-augmented generation risks assessed for source quality and access control
  • Hallucination controls combine grounding, review thresholds and citation requirements
  • Synthetic content policies address disclosure, impersonation and harmful outputs
  • Acceptable use rules distinguish approved tools, users and prohibited activities
  • Output review protocols assign validation duties before external publication

Participants can communicate AI legal advice and plan proportionate implementation actions.

  • Legal advice memoranda separate facts, assumptions, risks and recommended controls
  • Board briefings present risk appetite, decisions, residual exposure and accountability
  • AI incident response integrates legal privilege, notification and evidence preservation
  • Regulator engagement plans define records, spokespersons and response timetables
  • Escalation criteria identify prohibited uses, high-risk decisions and serious incidents
  • Ninety-day action plans prioritise policies, contracts, training and assurance

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. AI legal risk assessment template
  2. AI use-case classification matrix
  3. AI supplier due-diligence checklist
  4. Generative AI acceptable-use policy outline
  5. AI contract clause review guide
  6. Ninety-day AI governance action plan

Who should attend

  • In-house Counsel — advises business teams on AI procurement, deployment and disputes
  • Compliance Officers — translates AI obligations into policies, controls and monitoring
  • Data Protection Officers — assesses automated processing, profiling and personal data risks
  • Risk Managers — incorporates AI risks into enterprise risk and control frameworks
  • Procurement Managers — evaluates supplier commitments, warranties and audit rights
  • Technology and Digital Leaders — sponsors AI initiatives requiring legally defensible governance

Skills and tools covered

AI legal risk assessmentAlgorithmic accountabilityAI contract reviewData protection complianceAI governance designGenerative AI controls

Tools and standards

EU AI Act, GDPR, NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC 42001

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short instructor briefings to establish legal concepts and regulatory duties, followed by realistic cases involving AI procurement, automated decisions and generative AI use. Participants analyse use-case facts, compare risk classifications, review selected contract clauses, and discuss control choices in small groups. Scenario simulations address incidents, regulator questions and internal approval decisions. Facilitated application planning connects the methods to participants' current AI initiatives, policies and supplier relationships. Technical concepts are explained only to the level needed for legal analysis.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical familiarity with legal compliance, contracts, privacy, risk management, technology procurement, or digital transformation. They should be comfortable reading policy documents, contractual clauses and regulatory requirements, and discussing how systems are used within their organisation. Prior experience with artificial intelligence is useful but not essential; the course explains the technical concepts needed for legal analysis. No coding, data science, machine learning development, mathematics, or prior specialist knowledge of the EU AI Act is required. This is not a jurisdiction-specific legal qualification programme.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should understand their organisation's legal, compliance, risk, procurement or privacy responsibilities. No coding, machine learning development experience, or prior specialist knowledge of AI regulation is required.

Participants may bring anonymised examples of AI tools, supplier proposals, policies, or use cases relevant to their work. They should not bring confidential personal data, privileged documents, or restricted supplier materials.

It is intended for legal, compliance, privacy, risk, procurement and technology professionals responsible for decisions about AI use. It is particularly relevant to professionals advising internal stakeholders or reviewing external AI suppliers.

This course focuses on legal duties, contractual protections, governance controls and defensible decision records. Technical concepts are covered only where they affect legal analysis, such as training data, model outputs, testing and monitoring.

Participants can use the templates to screen proposed AI use cases, ask suppliers more precise questions, and identify matters requiring specialist advice. The course also supports reviews of generative AI policies, contracts and approval processes.

The five days provide approximately 32.5 contact hours, generally from 08:30 to 16:30 each day. Time is divided across ten modules covering regulation, privacy, intellectual property, liability, contracting, governance and implementation planning.

Questions about this course?

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