Law and Technology LLM

Program Overview

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Law and Technology LLM

Overview

The Law and Technology LLM programme explores the dynamic and intricate relationship between law and technology in today's fast-paced world. The course examines how technological advancements reshape legal and regulatory frameworks, critically analysing their impact on society, the economy, ethics, and technology itself.

Course Structure

• Full-time postgraduate students study 180 credits per year, consisting of three core modules worth 100 credits and four 20-credit option modules.
• The Dissertation module allows students to apply their understanding and developed knowledge in practical settings, working closely with a tutor on the programme.

Core Modules

Law and Digital Disruption

This module maps the landscape of digital disruption and explores how digital technologies affect the legal and regulatory landscape in several domains.

Law and Governance of Technological Risk

This module examines the emerging opportunities and the risks posed by new digital technologies in the public and private sectors.

Postgraduate Dissertation in Law and Technology

The Dissertation module gives students an opportunity to engage in independent research in a topic of their choice within the range of subject matter studied within other modules on the LLM in Law and Technology.

Option Modules

Law and Technoscientific Expertise

This module explores how technoscientific developments and the proliferation of expert voices in a variety of fields pose significant regulatory questions to legislatures and are captured by law.

Law and Data

This module explores the challenges posed by today's digital technologies to the regulation and governance of data.

Emerging Normativities: Law and Blockchain

This module examines emerging modes of normativity at the intersection of law and blockchain technology.

Global Data Flows: Law and Innovation

This module explores the landscape of policies and regulations concerning cross-border data flows and the challenges related to data privacy protection, law enforcement, and digital industrial policies.

International Space Law and Technology

This module maps the landscape of international and regional space law and engages with the disruption generated by new technologies and by new practices in this field of law.

Intellectual Property

This module analyses commercial Intellectual Property rights in an international context, with a particular focus on challenges to IP in the new online environment.

Law and Media: Content and Control

This module will analyse aspects of the regulation of content and control of various elements of the media.

Law of Digital Entertainment and Social Media

This module considers how law and technology has created and influenced law in relation to the digital entertainment business including the creation and distribution of products.

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of a lower second class honours degree (2:2) in a related discipline including law, social science, international relations.
• Applicants without the standard qualifications but with significant professional experience in the relevant field or related professional qualifications may be considered.
• If the first language is not English, students should have an IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.5 in writing and no element below 6.0.

Fees and Funding

• UK tuition fee: £12,900 (Price per academic year)
• International tuition fee: £18,000 (Price per academic year)
• Alumni discount available
• Funding options available, including Student Finance England (SFE) and scholarships

Teaching and Assessment

• Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and where appropriate practical application.
• Assessment types include practical and coursework, with no written exams.

Research Groups

• International Law at Westminster (ILaW)
• International Cyber Security Law
• Westminster Law and Theory Lab
• European and Comparative Law Research group
• Centre on the Legal Profession
• Centre for Law, Gender, Race and Sexuality
• Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture

Supporting You

• Study support, including workshops, 1-2-1 support, and online resources
• Personal tutors to support students in fulfilling their academic and personal potential
• Student advice team to provide specialist advice on a range of issues
• Extra-curricular activities, including volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, and student events

Course Location

• Little Titchfield Street, Regent Campus, University of Westminster
• Central London location, with access to law firms and resources

Related Courses

• Entertainment Law LLM
• International Law LLM
• International and Commercial Dispute Resolution Law LLM