Your compass for navigating and accelerating

innovation in the law.

We have a very simple approach: innovation is change that creates value. Legal innovation is change that creates value within the legal landscape. Innovation is like water — it can redefine a landscape in small, incremental ways, much as water dripping on a stone will eventually wear away the surface, permanently changing it. Innovation also can happen quickly, with substantial impact, much as the floods following a hurricane can completely redefine the banks of tributaries flowing from the sea. Our curriculum embraces innovation from tiny and slow to broad and bold and delivers methods and tools to implement change that creates value across a spectrum of impact. We empower the lone wolf working within a large organization and the Chief Innovation Officer charged with leading change initiatives.

Online registration is handled through Vanderbilt's IRIS system, which you can access from all Immersive listings currently open for registration. Payment online may be made securely by credit card. For any questions about registration and payment, please contact Cat Moon at c.moon@vanderbilt.edu or 615-322-6591. To register for Immersions currently open, go HERE.

Immersion tuition covers all curriculum costs related to the weekend session, including breakfast, lunch, and a pre-dinner event on Friday evening. All travel and lodging expenses are the responsibility of Institute students. We request discounted rates from hotels close to Vanderbilt and provide this information upon registration. Parking is available for $12/day in the 25th Avenue Garage directly across the street from the Wond'ry.

The Institute's curriculum consists of independent Immersion experiences, which are live (in-person) learning events that take place over a two-day (weekend) period at the Wond'ry on the Vanderbilt campus. Each Immersion is an independent learning opportunity, which means that you can attend a single Immersion or multiple Immersions based on your interest. We are in the process of creating a Certificate in Law and Innovation, which we anticipate will be earned through attending a minimum number of Immersions over a set course of time. See the following query for more information about the Certificate Program.

Currently in the development phase, the Institute intends to launch a Certificate in Law and Innovation by the Fall of 2019. The program will offer students who take a minimum number of Immersion courses within a set time period the ability to earn a certificate acknowledging the level of achievement in innovation learning. The Institute intends to give retroactive credit for any Immersion course taken before the official launch of the certificate program.

We have designed the Immersion curriculum exclusively as in-person in large part because the content depends on synchronous engagement with a learning cohort. Pedagogically, the in-person experience offers the most valuable learning opportunity. It is very hard to recreate the level of collaborative experience and interactive engagement we deem necessary in an asynchronous, virtual delivery system. With this said, we are actively engaged in building components within a learning management system (LMS) that allows us to deliver some aspects of Institute curriculum virtually to reach people who simply can't attend a live Immersion at Vanderbilt. Please stay tuned! And if you're interested in a future virtual curriculum, please let Cat Moon know at c.moon@vanderbilt.edu.

The tuition for each weekend (2-day) Immersion session is $2200. Starting in 2019, the Institute will offer a limited number of Fellowships which provide a tuition-free Immersion experience. To learn more, go here.

Defined as "deep mental involvement," immersion perfectly captures our approach to teaching legal professionals about innovation. It also means the act of immersing in — and in this instance, it's an immersion in a process and community focused intently on the topic at hand: leading legal innovation. Our format and terminology also is inspired by Immersion Vanderbilt, a new part of the undergraduate Vanderbilt experience: "a deeper, more complex education that integrates classroom knowledge with experience."

A critical component of deeper learning is the opportunity to meaningfully reflect on and apply what you've learned. A community of fellow learners can help support and facilitate this process, which is why we're creating a virtual community for all PoLI Institute students: the PoLI Forum. Through a cloud-based platform, students will have the opportunity to interact with one another and Institute faculty in this virtual space. We'll also use the Forum to share information and ideas that build on Immersion content and support your efforts to navigate legal innovation.

We welcome your questions! Please contact Cat Moon, Director of Innovation Design for PoLI, at c.moon@vanderbilt.edu or 615-322-6591.