Student applications for Sprint 2027 open 16 Sept 2026.
LawWithoutWalls Sprint 2027 in Glasgow! In collaboration with The University of Strathclyde Law School
Shape the Future of Law. Don't Just Watch It.
At LWOW 2027, you'll do more than learn—you'll collaborate across generations, disciplines, and cultures to solve the complex challenges transforming law and business. Work alongside students, legal professionals, business leaders, and innovators while developing the skills that make you standout in an AI age: creative problem-solving, innovation, collaboration, adaptability, and cultural competence.
Whether you're preparing to launch your career or lead the next era of legal transformation, LWOW will equip you to think differently, work boldly, and thrive in an rapidly-changing world.
The LWOW Sprint 2027: 5-7 March 2027 in Glasgow, Scotland
What is LWOW Sprint: A full, 3 day in-person experiential learning “weekender” focused on innovation, collaboration, and transformation. Students get hands-on up-skilling on cross-cultural teaming, problem solving, and leadership skills while hacking alongside law and business professionals and innovators who share a passion for intrapreneurship and community exchange.
The Process
Teaming: At LWOW Sprint, everyone is put on a team consisting of a mix of legal and business professionals, academics, and law and business students from around the world. Students are an integral component of these teams. Each team is sponsored by a corporate legal department, law firm or legal tech company that assigns a narrow business-of-law challenge or corporate social responsibility challenge to the team to hack on and solve.
The 3-4-5 Method of Innovation™: Over the course of 3 days, teams learn and apply design thinking principles and new methods of collaboration and innovation via the The 3-4-5 Method of Innovation™ created by LWOW Founder Michele DeStefano (read about LWOW’s leadership here).
The culmination of the three days is a ConPosium in which teams pitch their solution to their challenge “Ignite-style” (5 minutes, 20 self-advancing slides) to a panel of multidisciplinary judges (including venture capitalists), who ask questions and provide feedback.
Projects of Worth: Over the course of the 3 intense, high energy days, LWOW teams race to solve a real problem at the intersection of law, business and technology. Although the level of viability will vary, all teams’ solutions will be “Projects of Worth” yielding substantive growth in problem-solving, skills, mindset training, networking and relationship building.
The real value, the “WORTH” in the Project of Worth, is not the solution, but the journey to get there. It’s the change that happens in behavior, connection, collaboration as you work in teams during the Sprint.
weekly Pre-Sprint 2027 Training Modules (DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED)*
The opportunities you'll experience at LWOW Sprint are too valuable to arrive unprepared. That's why every student is required to complete our Pre-Sprint Training Program before Sprint begins.
As such, during the weeks leading up to Sprint, through interactive sessions with LWOW leadership, you'll build the skills and confidence to contribute from day one—learning innovation, problem-solving, collaboration, storytelling, project management, professionalism, and presentation skills alongside your fellow participants.
Participation and completion of these modules are MANDATORY so that students arrive at Sprint with an understanding of role and responsibilities over the 3 days; and they are prepared to work alongside experienced law and business professionals. *Note: this pre-Sprint work is VIRTUAL and will happen in the weeks prior to Sprint 2027 (schedule to be published). Virtual sessions are expected to begin at UTC 20:30 for 90 minutes.
Final Student Self-Assessment
To help preserve students’ learnings and experiences at LWOW, and to communicate the benefits back to the sponsoring institutions, students are also required to submit a Post-Sprint Creative Reflection that presents their experience at LWOW Sprint, the process, project development, learnings and professional development.
Student APPLICATION, Selection, and Timing
Students from participating and non-participating schools can apply. The application consists of the application form, an Interview Video, one letter of recommendation, a Linkedin URL and your CV. We may also require a short interview.
Student applications open online on 16 September 2026, deadline is 28 Oct. Students will be notified of their acceptance by or before 20 Nov 2026. Your participating school may have a different (earlier) deadline and a different application process, so please check with your institution before applying through the LWOW portal. That said, no matter what the process or timing, ALL students must fill out an application and submit it through the LWOW portal.
Fees and Course Credit
There is an administration fee to attend the LWOW Sprint, depending on your school (Note: this fee includes participation in LWOW Sprint 2027 but does not include travel or lodging; however, as in years’ past, we will select reduced-rate hotels for students and pair them 2 per room. Students can also request a single room). Although many schools do not offer credit for LWOW, especially those that offer LWOW as part of an advanced law degree, some schools do. We will confirm school credits in Fall 2026 based on the proposed 2027 curriculum (note: LWOW 2026 was the equivalent of 3 credit hours in the U.S. system). Please email anita@lwow.org for further information on the student administration fee.