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   "text": "Law schools must enable students to work in interdisciplinary teams with software engineers, and a greater appreciation of how code can be used and integrated in legal contexts is essential to that capability.",
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   "text": "The ability to understand and communicate with coders, as distinct from professional coding competence, is a necessary skill for the lawyer of the future, so law students benefit from grasping the basic concepts and power of coding.",
   "abstract": "However, we do believe that the ability to understand and communicate with coders is a necessary skill for the lawyer of the future. As such, we think that law students will benefit from understanding the basic concepts and power of coding.",
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   "text": "That the technologies driving social change remain a mystery to most people is itself a problem, so practical technical knowledge must be integrated into many fields of education, with coding and data analysis as the starting point.",
   "abstract": "For many of us, the underlying technologies that are driving social change remain a mystery, and that is a problem. Practical technical knowledge needs to be integrated into many fields of education. Coding and data analysis seem a good starting point.",
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   "text": "Law programs have been slow to adapt to these technological developments and most students are still being prepared for a hierarchical, centralized and proceduralized world.",
   "abstract": "Unfortunately, law programs have been slow to adapt to these technological developments. Most students are still being prepared for a hierarchical, centralized and \"proceduralized\" world.",
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   "text": "The Coding for Lawyers course is not about teaching students how to code but about making them realize how important it is to think about their relationship with new technology and with technology experts.",
   "abstract": "It is not about teaching students \"how to code,\" but about making them realize how important it is to think about our relationship with new technology and technology experts.",
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   "text": "Developers are not trained to consider business context or ethics because most tech education focuses almost exclusively on technical training and skills, so a parallel reconfiguration of technical education is required alongside the reform of legal education.",
   "abstract": "They are not trained to think in this way. Most tech- education is almost exclusively focused on technical training and skills. A parallel reconfiguration in our technical education is also required.",
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   "text": "Preparing a workforce for the quantum economy requires universities and training institutions to build specialized curricula that combine quantum mechanics, computer science, and information theory, paired with industry partnerships that supply hands on experience.",
   "abstract": "Universities and training institutions must develop specialized curricula that combine quantum mechanics, computer science, and information theory to prepare the next generation of quantum professionals.",
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