“It was 1981, and IBM had just launched its first PC. I was an undergraduate at Glasgow University and was almost alone in the law school in being excited about the possible impact of this new technology. I wanted to understand what the computer might mean for the legal world – how might it revolutionise this remarkably traditional profession into which I was heading?
“IT was clearly not on the curriculum and so I had to find a different way to become involved. In the grand tradition of the law, I turned to the small print. I scoured the regulations governing the LLB degree, and to my surprise and delight found a regulation that allowed students to submit a 20,000-word dissertation on a subject of their choice instead of sitting one of their final papers. Game on.
