Artificial Intelligence, Digital and Cyber Law

Program Overview

Artificial Intelligence, Digital and Cyber Law LLM

Overview

The Artificial Intelligence, Digital and Cyber Law LLM course explores the legal challenges created by the evolving digital world. Students will investigate the legal concepts associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital financial crime, and serious organised crime online. The course covers the rules relating to AI, digital platforms, and develops specialist knowledge of online regulations and governance.

Course Features

• Work placement opportunity
• International students can apply

What You'll Study

Compulsory Modules:

• Advanced Research Skills: Develops advanced research skills, methods, and methodologies appropriate for postgraduate research.
• Artificial Intelligence in Theory & Practice: Focuses on the legal concepts associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explores the common ways in which AI systems work.
• Dissertation: Represents the culmination of critical engagement with the subject area of the course, enabling students to study a relevant topic in considerable depth.
• Privacy and Data Protection in the Digital Age: Enhances knowledge of the essential systemic elements that comprise cyberspace and the challenges of AI and algorithmic regulation.
• Cyber Crime - Detection, Investigation and Enforcement: Considers the different types of technology and devices that impact on policing and the use of social media in policing.

Optional Modules:

• Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Technology: Provides the opportunity to explore and critique the dominant schools of thought on the relationships between law, social norms, markets, and the architecture and code of the digital environment.
• Digital and Cyber Financial Crime: Explores the key aspects of 21st-century regulation and policing of digital crime, including cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and online financial crime.
• Digital Platforms and Competition Law: Explores the regulation of digital platforms from the view of competition law.
• Information Security and Management: Outlines the process by which information assets are assessed to determine the threats and corresponding risks to those assets.
• Regulating Intellectual Property Law in Cyber Space: Critically examines the key principles of international intellectual property (IP) law.
• Emerging Technologies: Equips students with an advanced understanding of emerging technology and develops the appropriate skills to critically evaluate their suitability, impact, and applicability to new scenarios.
• The Law of Cyber Warfare: Designed to equip students with a comprehensive framework for critically examining key theoretical perspectives and their applications concerning the use, limitations, and challenges of cyberspace governance from an international law perspective.

How You'll Study

• Face-to-face teaching at Edge Hill University campus in Ormskirk
• Small group tutor-led lectures and interactive student-led seminars
• One-to-one basis through personal tutorials, research supervision, and learning consolidation sessions

How You'll Be Assessed

• Assessments on modules vary depending upon the subject matter: some modules are assessed by coursework, whilst others are assessed by written exams and oral presentations.
• Individual assessments, though on some occasions, you will be invited to work as part of a team with your peers.
• Submission of a 12,000-word dissertation at the completion of the program.

Who Will Be Teaching You

• Experts in artificial intelligence, digital and cyber regulation who have published extensively on the key themes of the program or who have first-hand professional experience of working in the AI industry or digital law enforcement.
• Research interests of the program team include cyber law and policy, data protection, artificial intelligence, financial crime, intellectual property law, media law, European competition law, and preventative legal measures against organized crime.

Your Future Career

• By the end of this course, you'll be ready to take your specialist knowledge straight into the legal profession.
• You'll understand how to defend rights infringements and have expertise in intellectual property rights, data privacy rights, and access and authorization rights.
• Other graduates from this course choose an academic path, going into specialist legal research or studying for a PhD.

Entry Criteria

• A degree equivalent to UK first-class or second-class honors (2:2 or above) in law or a relevant science-based discipline, or a relevant non-law degree in the humanities or social sciences.
• Relevant professional qualifications or suitable work experience will also be considered.
• An interview normally forms part of the selection process for applicants not in possession of a 2.2 undergraduate honors degree.

English Language Requirements

• International students require IELTS 6.5, with a score no lower than 6.0 in each individual component, or an equivalent English language qualification.

Tuition Fees

• 2025/26:
  • UK Full-Time: £9,250 for the course
  • UK Part-Time: £51 per credit for 180 credits
  • International: £17,000 for the course

Facilities

• The £6 million Law and Psychology building provides contemporary teaching and learning facilities for students in the School of Law and Criminal Justice and the Department of Psychology.
• A 250-seat lecture theatre, seminar and tutorial rooms, and social learning areas which encourage a more informal and interactive style of learning.