Our mission is to work with students to develop innovative solutions that clarify, redesign or replace the most complex aspects of law. The criteria we use to assess such problems, and their corresponding solutions, are:

• The legal problem actually creates problems within our society.
• The solution to this is innovative and this can make a difference.
• The pitch is convincing and the service/product is clearly explained.
• There is a clear sustainability model behind the idea.
• It is plausible that the team can deliver on these plans.
• It has the potential to grow.

Goals

Goals of the Legal Startup Competition:

• Encouraging students to rethink legal problems faced by our society and design their own solutions for them.
• Create visibility for the startups and highlight them to potential investors.

Activities

• Organising the pitch event.
• Composing/conceiving the programme of the event.
• Inviting judges from the field, to judge the pitches.
• Inviting professionals from the legal field to meet the startups.

Impact numbers

• In 2021, we organised the first edition of the Legal Startup Event. This was a hybrid version, because of COVID.
• In 2022, the second edition took place. Here, eight ideas were pitched and there was a high turnout from our network of legal partners.
• The third edition took place in 2023. Nine startups participated in it.
• Awards:
  Winner (jury's choice) receives €500.
  Winner Access to Justice (jury's choice), receives €250.
  Audience Winner (chosen by the public).