Rethinking legal work — at Juridicum.

Tax law is one of the most rule-intensive legal areas — and at the same time one in which digitalisation is still in its early days. Tax reviews, compliance workflows and regulatory decision chains follow clear logic. Yet in practice they are still often handled manually. What is rarely taught: how to structure that expertise so that a system can process it.

In the KU TaxTech course at the Institute for Tax Law, students experience exactly that. They see how a tax-law review workflow emerges, how decision logic works and why traceability is decisive in regulated environments. UNOY makes this bridge between tax law and technology tangible.

For us, the partnership with the Juridicum is a statement: UNOY is built for knowledge workers — and tax law is knowledge work in their most demanding form. Students should know the tools that change their work, while they are still studying — not only later under time pressure in the law firm or tax advisory.

First: tax-law students bring a way of thinking that fits workflow design perfectly. They are used to checking statutory elements, forming if-then chains and subsuming tax-law facts. Building a tax-law review workflow is essentially the same — only in digital form.

Second: the biggest hurdle isn't the technology, it is the abstraction. Students have to learn how to formulate tax-law knowledge in a way a system can process. That isn't a technical skill — it is an intellectual one. And KU TaxTech shows that it can be taught.

Third: the university is the right place to build up this skill. Tax-advisory practice doesn't have the time for foundational work. At the university, students can experiment, make mistakes and reflect. That creates a foundation everything else can build on.