Intellectual Property & the Digital Economy (LLM)

• You will develop a critical understanding of a wide range of issues concerning the legal regulation of intellectual property and the digital economy.
• You will benefit from our excellent facilities including the dedicated School of Law library; our main University library also contains our extensive collection of legal materials and official publications and is a European Documentation Centre.
• We have a very vibrant mooting programme and a dedicated Moot Courtroom. We have an outstanding record of success and you can participate in internal, national and international mooting competitions.
• We organise a series of lectures featuring talks from highly successful judges and lawyers.

Programme overview

• LLM: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time

You are required to take at least three courses from the following list (and four courses in total) and to submit a dissertation approved as falling within the area.

Core courses

• Contemporary issues in intellectual property
• Copyright in the digital environment
• European Union trade law
• E-Commerce, rights management, and information
• Intellectual property and the market
• International and comparative intellectual property law
• International economic law.

Career prospectsWith a combination of regulatory, policy, and management perspectives, this programme will provide an advanced-level qualification that should prove highly attractive to employers, as well as providing an excellent platform for further advanced-level study.
The specialisations you develop in this programme would be well suited to consultancies and private companies working with the creative industries.