Coding Like a Lawyer: Learning to Programme Can Be Useful (and Fun) for Curating Legal Knowledge?

In this blogpost, Dr Chen Zhu reflects on the benefit of learning software programming for studying law. He shares his own experience of learning music copyright law with a selected few programmable computational tools. He concludes with a caveat that many computational tools are not necessarily easy to learn, but there can be intrinsic joy in coding even without external rewards.