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LLM Technology and Intellectual Property Law

  • DeadlineStudy Details: LLM Full-time: 12 monthsPart-time: 24 months

Masters Degree Description

Our Technology and Intellectual Property Law LLM offers you a cutting-edge postgraduate qualification in a fast-growing field. You will have the opportunity to study a range of specialist areas including law, artificial intelligence and robotics; digital copyright and design law; global data protection law; and regulation of the digital economy and the information society.

Research-led teaching

The School of Law is home to the University of Nottingham Commercial Law Centre, which is committed to the promotion of research excellence in the field of commercial law as well as the impact of research on commercial law reform and development, nationally and internationally. The centre is co-directed by Professor Paul Torremans, a leading authority in the field of trademark and patent law.

Entry Requirements

2:1 (or international equivalent) in law, humanities, social sciences, science or engineering

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Our graduates go on to a wide range of careers. Many go into the legal profession or return to their previous legal careers with specialist knowledge and enhanced prospects. Others work in international organisations and NGOs. Some graduates further their academic career by progressing onto our PhD programme.

Recent graduate destinations include BAE Systems, Clifford Chance, London Stock Exchange and Simmons & Simmons.

Module Details

Core modules

Students must take all modules in this group:

  • A Critical Introduction to Technology and Intellectual Property Law
  • Dissertation

Optional modules

Students must take five optional modules: two in semester one, and three in semester two.

Semester one

Students should take a minimum of one specialist module and a maximum of two specialist modules from this group:

  • Global Data Protection Law
  • International and Comparative Copyright Law
  • Private International Law of Intellectual Property
  • Regulation of the Digital Economy and the Information Society

Instead of one specialist module, students may take one module from this group:

  • Corporate Finance Law
  • Corporate Law and Corporate Governance
  • International Sale of Goods
  • International Trade Law and the Global Economy
  • Law of International Trade Finance
  • Public Contract Law in Global Context

Semester two

Students should take a minimum of two specialist modules and a maximum of three specialist modules from this group:

  • Digital Copyright and Design Law
  • Global Competition Law and International Business
  • International and Comparative Patent Law
  • International and Comparative Trademark Law
  • Law, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  • Technology and Human Rights

Instead of one specialist module, students may take one module from this group:

  • Business and Human Rights
  • Corporate Insolvency Law
  • Fair Trials: Human Rights, Criminal Justice and Technology
  • International Commercial Arbitration
  • Introduction to Energy Law

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