Curriculum
Concentration
Legal Innovation & Technology
17credits required
The smallest concentration by credits, at seventeen. Its externship requirement is the most flexible in the school. It takes a credit externship, a non-credit summer placement, either LIT clinic, or a waiver if you are part-time and already working in the field. You take three of the four core courses, and two of those four run in spring only, so plan the order early.
Enrol by October 1 (January graduates) / February 1 (May graduates) · completion form November 1 (January graduates) / March 1 (May graduates)
Plan around these
Courses listed by a concentration but absent from the 2026-27 catalog may be on a multi-year rotation, renamed, or discontinued. Verify with Academic Services.
- Core, spring only: Twenty-First Century Legal Profession, Process Improvement and Legal Project Management
- Listed but not running in 2026–27: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and the Law, E-Discovery Law, Emerging Issues in Law: Information Technology & Transnational Business, ODR, Problem Solving: Legal Writing and Research for Practice
What it takes
- At least three (3) of the total four (4) core courses, as listed under the Concentration’s Courses section
- An externship or clinical requirement that may be satisfied by: An approved, three (3) credit externship related to Legal Innovation and Technology though the Externship Program
- An approved non-credit summer or semester externship in a placement related to Legal Innovation and Technology
- Participation in the Legal Innovation and Technology Clinic or Online Dispute Resolution Innovation Clinic
- An approved externship waiver for qualifying students as approved by the LIT Concentration Director, such as part-time students with a full-time position already relating to Legal Innovation and Technology
- At least three (3) Concentration elective courses, totaling at least seven (7) credits, as listed in the Concentration’s Courses section
- At least seventeen (17) required total credits from the approved Concentration and elective courses and the required externship by the time of graduation
- Obtaining the Concentration Faculty Director's approval of the student's plan for completing the Concentration's writing/project requirement
Suffolk's requirements page · its course list · Academic Rules
Courses that count
27 listed, 22 running this year.
Includes two Spring 2027 electives announced October 30, 2026. Announcement details appear with each course.
Core Courses
Kelli Proia
Catherine MacDonagh
Kelli Proia, Quinten Steenhuis
Dyane O'Leary, Tom Martin
Elective Course Requirements
David Colarusso
Andrew Garcia
Gregory Pickard, Karl Hartmann
Christopher Seusing
Marc Lauritsen
Alexander Gavis, Philippe Mauldin
Christina Miller
Ann LaFrance
Lisle Baker
Kathy Vinson
Catherine MacDonagh
Dyane O'Leary
Christopher Gibson
Christopher Seusing
Catalog title: Privacy/Data Security · LAW 2911. Matched 2026-11-02.
Maurice Dyson
Christopher Gibson, Nicole Pardo, Steven Ferrey
Tuesdays, 6–7:50 p.m. Eastern · Online Synchronous
Explore generative AI, autonomous agents and superintelligence, including accountability, human autonomy, legal personhood and the legal and policy choices surrounding advanced AI.
Counts as a LIT concentration elective. Course number was not included in the announcement.
LIT concentration director’s announcement, October 30, 2026. Confirm details in Workday.
Marc Lauritsen
LAW 8022 · Mondays, 4–5:50 p.m. Eastern · In-Person
Use AI and other technologies to organize evidence and arguments. Hands-on work includes Wigmore diagrams and argument maps, with a weekly in-person class and independent project work.
Counts as a LIT elective and toward the experiential learning and Race, Equity, and Law (REAL) requirements. Expect an average of eight hours of work outside class each week.
LIT concentration director’s announcement, October 30, 2026. Confirm details in Workday.
Verified 2026-08-27. Confirm with Academic Services before you plan around it.