Bucerius Legal Innovation Hub: The future of the legal market starts now!

Bucerius Legal Innovation Hub: The future of the legal market starts now!

On September 17, 2025, the Bucerius Legal Innovation Hub (BLIH) was officially opened at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. The event brought together founding partners, the team and the Innovation Board of Bucerius Law School to celebrate the launch of this new research and innovation platform. The aim of the hub is to create a scientific think tank for research, knowledge transfer and interdisciplinary exchange, which focuses in particular on the topics of legal tech and artificial intelligence. This reports law-school.de.

The Bucerius Legal Innovation Hub was launched as a joint unit of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession (Bucerius CLP) and the Bucerius Center for Legal Technology and Data Science (Bucerius CLTDS). A central concern of the hub is the combination of practical legal market experience and scientific research. The aim is to address law firms, legal departments, technology providers, the judiciary and students at Bucerius Law School.

Future-oriented research and projects

The topics that will be in focus in the coming months are rule of law issues in the age of AI, the legal education and training of the future and legal benchmarking. In addition to carrying out scientific publications, the aim is also to develop teaching and practical formats. Regular innovation talks on current trends in the legal market, as well as studies, research papers and trend monitoring are planned. Organizing conferences is also part of the hub's portfolio presseportal.de reported.

The hub's founding partners include ARAG, Wolters Kluwer Legal Software Germany and the AI ​​provider Legora. ARAG will provide practical input into the four research areas and aims to use innovative technologies to facilitate access to law. Klaus Kozik from ARAG emphasizes the company's special affinity for LegalTech and artificial intelligence.

Interdisciplinary approach and educational formats

A sustainable change in everyday legal professional life through automated processes and data-driven decision-making will also be discussed in the discussion that took place on January 21, 2025 at the Bucerius Law School. Under the title “How do lawyers work in the future? – How legal tech and AI are changing legal work,” experts from practice, science and administration came together to shed light on the effects of new technologies recode.law.

The discussion included the challenges posed by technological developments such as deepfakes, the integration of legal tech into everyday administrative life and increasing the efficiency of legal processes through the use of AI. Professor Dr. Ralf Peter Anders spoke about the impact on law enforcement, while Bernadette Kell from the Federal Ministry of Justice gave insights into digitalization projects. Dr. Jan Wildhirth from Fieldfisher X and Professor Dr. Britta Rehder from the Ruhr University Bochum also highlighted the legal and social challenges in the wake of these changes.

Overall, the Bucerius Legal Innovation Hub offers a promising platform for helping to shape the future of the legal market. The interdisciplinary and international approach attempts to develop new competence profiles for lawyers and to adapt the legal profession to the challenges of the digital future.