How legal tech is changing legal education A case study at the HvA University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam Case Study2 HvA University case study Law was one of the first subjects ever taught at universities, being part of curricula since the Middle Ages, and the basics of that education stayed the same for centuries. In the Netherlands, that changed in 2002. That’s when the so-called universities of applied sciences (HBO in Dutch) started teaching law, and did so differently than the academics: with an eye toward its application, not its fundamental philosophies. If some academic programs have been slow to pick up on the way IT is changing legal practice, the opposite is true at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). The school is a founding partner of the

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