Instead of social gatherings in crowded spaces, our leisure time activities now often involve quiet nights at home. Within the safety of our pandemic pods, we’re building puzzles, playing board games, baking bread, and learning chess. But our time at home is also being spent online. Streaming services are more popular than ever, and despite screen fatigue from attending so many work and social activities online, Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are experiencing a surge in enrollment.
Listed here are a number of courses for lawyers and/or those interested in the law. Many more courses are available on the three major online learning platforms -- Coursera, EDx, and Udemy, including a great number of learning opportunities for aspiring technology workers. Tech courses are among the most popular offerings, providing students a chance to build new skills in subjects such as website development and computer programming. In a prior blog post, we discussed the merits of lawyers learning to code. That post also links to useful online learning opportunities for anyone – not only lawyers -- who wishes to build skills in tech.
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Coursera provides access to content on a broad spectrum of legal topics such as Environmental Law, Legal Tech & Startups, Intellectual Property, and Human Rights. A more complete list of offerings is here.
EDx offers Law Courses on a wide variety of legal topics, including Criminal Law, Bioethics, Business Health Law, and the Constitution, to name but a few. Check out the full line-up here.
Udemy is known for its tech offerings, but several legal research courses and surveys of the law are also available. A few notable mentions include: