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CS50 for Lawyers

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to
computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law
students).
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Open September 12, 2019 - December 31, 2021
Free^*
[cs50-law]
Duration
10 weeks long
Time commitment
3-6 hours per week
Pace
Self-paced
Subject
Computer Science
Course language

  * English

Video Transcript

  * English

Difficulty
Introductory
Credit
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Platform
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Topic(s)

  * Computer Networking
  * Computer Science
  * Cybersecurity
  * Data Algorithms
  * Data Structures
  * Programming
  * Databases
  * SQL
  * Python
  * Law
  * Business Law

What you'll learn

  * Challenges at the Intersection of Law and Technology
  * Computational Thinking
  * Programming Languages
  * Algorithms, Data Structures
  * Cryptography
  * Cybersecurity

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Course description

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to
computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law
students). Whereas CS50 itself takes a bottom-up approach,
emphasizing mastery of low-level concepts and implementation details
thereof, this course takes a top-down approach, emphasizing mastery
of high-level concepts and design decisions related thereto.
Ultimately, it equips students with a deeper understanding of the
legal implications of technological decisions made by clients.

Through a mix of technical instruction and discussion of case
studies, this course empowers students to be informed contributors to
technology-driven conversations. In addition, it prepares students to
formulate technology-informed legal arguments and opinions. Along the
way, it equips students with hands-on experience with Python and SQL,
languages via which they can mine data for answers themselves.

Topics include algorithms, cloud computing, databases, networking,
privacy, programming, scalability, security, and more, with a
particular emphasis on understanding how the work developers do and
the technological solutions they employ may impact clients. Students
emerge from this course with a first-hand appreciation of how it all
works and all the more confident in the factors that should guide
their decision-making.

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Instructors

  * [doug-lloyd110x110]

    Doug Lloyd

    Senior Preceptor in Computer Science, Harvard University
  * [malan-sq]

    David J. Malan

    Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science,
    Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied
    Sciences

Associated Schools

  * [harvard-engineering]

    Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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