Emerging Technologies and the Law LLM

Overview

The Emerging Technologies and the Law LLM focuses on the interactions between economics, politics and society in regulating complex new technological problems.

It combines the study of existing rules and regulations with case studies and human experiences of the impacts of innovation.

It raises questions such as:

• Is your meme copyright protected?
• Where, how, and why should Meta be taxed?
• Will AI decision-making change legal processes?
• What happens when Twitter and the European Commission discuss social media content?
• Can science fiction teach us about regulation?

This Law programme is open to graduates from any discipline. We welcome students with an interest in the regulation of complex real-world problems that are the result of technological innovations. This course is for you if you not only care what the law is, but what it could be.

Our subject experts will provide you with extensive knowledge. You will gain critical and transferrable skills required by employers in both the public and private sector.

This LLM is also suitable for applicants with an interest in further study. You will develop the skills necessary for the development of a PhD proposal on law and technology-related subjects.

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Your future

What can you do with the Emerging Technologies and the Law LLM degree?

Further study

Students on this programme will receive excellent research training. This will allow you to develop a methodologically rigorous PhD proposal, if you wish to continue to doctoral study.

Careers and graduate destinations

Students with a Law & Technology LLM work in diverse roles in a wide range of sectors.

Some of the roles include:

• legal representatives
• policy advisers at a range of local, national and international organisations and institutions
• regulators with a technological or media focus, in government and civil service roles, as well as think tanks and universities.

Our graduates work as legal advisors in international organisations and government bodies. Others work in-house with businesses in areas such as the law on e-commerce.

Some of our graduates go on to PhD studies in areas of international law such as copyright law.

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Check out the success stories of some of our former Law Master's students. 

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