Legal work is still full of manual review, scattered workflows, slow compliance checks, and unclear documentation.
At Rhett, we're exploring a simple question:
Can developers use AI to make legal execution faster, clearer, and more accessible?
That's the idea behind The Code of Law Challenge — a legal-tech hackathon by Rhett.
📅 Hackathon Dates
30–31 May 2026
🔗 Register here: rhett.legal/hackathon
🔗 Detailed Info: Brochure
Early Bird Offer: ₹799
Who Should Join?
This hackathon is for builders (students, early-career, professionals) interested in:
- AI and LLMs
- NLP
- Open-source tools
- Legal-tech
- Compliance automation
- Document intelligence
- Workflow automation
- Developer-first problem solving
Team Limit: 1-4 Max.
You do not need to be a lawyer. You need curiosity, execution, and the willingness to build something useful.
The Problem Statements
1. Contract Review & Redlining Tool
Build a tool that can review contracts such as NDAs, employment agreements, or service agreements. The tool should help users:
- Identify risky, ambiguous, or non-standard clauses
- Suggest improved or alternative clauses
- Highlight changes in a clear redlined format
- Improve contract review speed and clarity
Open stack — LLMs, RAG pipelines, rule engines, fine-tuned models, or a hybrid approach. Your call.
2. AI for Legal Governance — Open Innovation Track
Build a solution that improves legal governance using open-source technologies. Possible directions:
- Compliance checklist automation
- Policy review assistants
- Regulatory change trackers
- Legal Q&A systems
- Document classification and tagging tools
- Risk monitoring workflows
What We're Looking For
We care about working prototypes, clear problem definition, practical utility, and thoughtful use of open-source technologies.
The best projects will not just look impressive. They will solve a real legal or compliance problem in a way users can actually understand.
🏆 Prizes & Opportunities
- ₹22,000 prize pool for the top 2 winning teams
- Paid internship opportunities at Rhett for standout participants
- Premium workshop / certification access via LegalWiki
- 1-year membership to the Indian Society of AI and Law (ISAIL)
- Incubation and mentorship support through HPNLU's Legal Innovation & Incubation Centre
Why This Matters
Legal systems are often slow, expensive, and difficult to navigate — especially for growing businesses and MSMEs that drive most of India's economic activity.
Developers have a real opportunity to change that. The next generation of legal tooling won't come from law firms hiring engineers. It will come from engineers who decide the friction isn't acceptable anymore.
If you're building at the intersection of AI, law, and open-source — or you've been waiting for an excuse to start — we'd love to see what you create.
Register for The Code of Law Challenge
Which problem would you tackle — contract redlining or open-innovation governance? Drop a comment with your stack of choice or to know more about it 👇