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Program Overview

The LLM/MSc Law, Technology & Innovation is a unique program that combines legal and technological skills, taught by subject experts and visiting international scholars. This program is designed for law and non-law graduates who want to gain a better understanding of technology and its regulation.

Key Facts

• Start date: September, January
• Study mode and duration: Full-time (1 year) or part-time (2 years), on-campus
• Scholarships: Available, including EU Engagement Scholarships and Data Lab Scholarships for LLM Law, Technology & Innovation

Why this Course?

This program is globally unique in teaching technological skills, technology law, innovation, and leadership. It does not require prior knowledge of coding or law. Graduates will have the opportunity to build their own technological projects while gaining an understanding of the law that regulates the design, development, and distribution of technology internationally.

What you'll Study

The program may be completed over one year (full-time) or over two years (part-time). The LLM is awarded on successful completion of six modules and a summer project (dissertation, internship, consultancy, enhanced research proposal, or coding project).

Modules

• Regulating Technology: Analyses the suitability of existing and emerging regulatory models with respect to new technologies.
• Innovation and Leadership: Equips graduates with the tools required to properly respond to the issues raised by rapid innovation.
• Dissertation: An extended project of enquiry into an area of your own choice.
• Enhanced technology design project for law and legal application: Students will identify some aspect of the law that could benefit from a technological design solution.
• Enhanced Research Proposal: Supports students writing an enhanced research proposal.
• Professional Internship: Gives students the opportunity to apply to pursue an internship in a national or international organisation.
• Professional Project: Gives students the opportunity to do independent work in the final semester of their LLM/MSc.

Elective Modules

• Coding for lawyers and legal applications
• Statistics and machine learning for lawyers and legal application
• Cyber crime, cyber security and anti-theft law
• Intellectual property, commerce and innovation
• Law, power and accountability in the algorithmic state
• Law and economics for digital markets
• Human rights and digital technologies
• Digital Media Ethics
• E-Commerce

Entry Requirements

• Academic requirements: First or second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent, in Law or any other discipline.
• Other qualifications may be accepted where the applicant has relevant work experience.

Fees & Funding

• Fees may be subject to updates to maintain accuracy.
• Tuition fees will be notified in your offer letter.
• Annual revision of fees: Students on programmes of study of more than one year should be aware that the majority of fees will increase annually.
• Scotland:
  • Full-time: £10,800
  • Part-time: £5,400
• England, Wales & Northern Ireland:
  • Full-time: £10,800
  • Part-time: £5,400
• International:
  • Full-time: £21,700
  • Part-time: £10,850

Scholarships

• EU Engagement Scholarships are available to EU applicants.
• Data Lab Scholarships for LLM Law, Technology & Innovation are available for applicants ordinarily resident in Scotland or the UK.