Led through Ulster University’s Centre for Legal Technology, the collaboration is focused on research, teaching and skills development rather than commercial sponsorship activity. 

The partnership will embed StructureFlow into teaching, research and applied legal innovation activity, helping students develop the practical technology proficiency and structural intelligence needed to navigate the rising complexity of practising law.

The research-led partnership forms part of Ulster University’s wider drive to rethink legal education for the age of AI, ensuring students are prepared to enter the legal profession and help shape its future. 

AI-enabled legal technology platforms are already transforming how lawyers conduct research, review documents and generate legal analysis. However, as the scale and complexity of the legal, business and regulatory environment grows, students and practitioners also need new ways to organise, interpret and present that information in a form that can be trusted and acted upon.

Through the collaboration, students will explore how visual modelling tools can support the interpretation and communication of complex legal, regulatory and organisational information. In practice, this means breaking down legislation, mapping legal relationships, presenting complex arguments and understanding how changes in one part of a structure affects the wider picture.

Dr John McCord, senior lecturer and research lead for the Centre for Legal Technology, said: “StructureFlow gives students a powerful way to cut through complex and often fragmented information, analyse their legal arguments, and present them in a way that can be understood, challenged and verified.

“That matters because law is built on trust, and trust depends on being able to provide clear advice, while showing how conclusions have been reached. This partnership will help our students build the practical proficiency and confidence they need for the future of legal work.”