Halle's new LegalTech Lab: Future of the judiciary is now beginning!

Halle's new LegalTech Lab: Future of the judiciary is now beginning!

something is happening in Halle: The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has opened a new center for innovative solutions in the judiciary with the "LegalTech Lab". This happened on July 14, 2025 in the presence of the State Justice Minister Franziska Weidinger and Prof. Dr. Pablo Pirnay stupid. The room has quickly established itself as a creative place for researchers, students and practitioners and is intended to beat the bridge between law and digital technologies. With this project, the MLU pursues ambitious goals to promote the digitization of the judiciary and reduce administrative effort.

With the latest digital tools, including artificial intelligence, the laboratory works on practical projects. These include a maintenance calculator for childcare in the change model and digital solutions for foreclosure. Prof. Dr. Christian Tietje, who supports the project, emphasizes that cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and Finance in Magdeburg in particular plays a major role. These cooperation should help reduce bureaucratic hurdles and to promote a modernized judiciary.

diverse projects and a creative space

A prestige project of the "LegalTech Lab" is the modeling of a completely digital foreclosure process. This initiative shows how serious it is to think of the judiciary. In addition, a AI-based funding guideline generator is being developed, which should help to reduce paper mountains and administrative effort. The goal is clear: to facilitate the work in the judiciary through effective digital solutions and to strengthen talents to the region.

There is also special attention to the training of the next generation of lawyers. The laboratory offers students the opportunity to use the project as a supplement to their regular studies. In addition, the "Future Legal Education" certificate program was launched to anchor digital competence in the region. The "LegalTech Lab" extends over around 200 square meters and is designed as a space for group work and creative exchange.

creativity and international perspectives

The Lab launch space on the MLU campus embodies the creative approach: Innovative ideas are to be developed here that can improve everyday legal life in the region. The interactive explorer tool for uncitral documents in particular shows the international ambitions of the project. The MLU positions itself as a pioneer in the development of innovative legal tech solutions and would like to gain in importance at a global level.

The financing of around 21.5 million euros is made by the EU's Just Transition Fund. This support is of great importance for the implementation of the many ideas and solutions developed as part of the "Just Transition Center" of the MLU. Prof. Dr. Tietje and his team, including Dr. Konstantin Branovitskiy, Liubov Zazulina, Georgia Könemann and Luzia Ferenschild have set themselves a good goal: in the end there should be a comprehensive offer at the MLU that significantly influences the future of the judiciary.

If you think that it was already, you are wrong: with quick results and practical applications, be it outputs or cooperations with regional partners, the laboratory will certainly cause a stir. The developments of the next few months and years promise to be at least exciting.

For more information about the exciting developments in the "LegalTech Lab" and the goals of the MLU, please visit the reporting on Hallelife and the Just Transition Center .