Online LL.M. Digital Law and Technology

Law diploma open to post-graduate students, exclusively taught in English, online, full-time or part-time study possible.

The LL.M. Digital Law and Technology is designed to give students a deep understanding of the legal issues and challenges brought by the digital transformation of our economy and the regulation of the innovations it implies. They will study key topics such as privacy, intellectual property protection, contract law applied to the digital economy, and the ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence.

Entirely taught online (save for an integration weekend in Lyon if conditions allow) and in English, this diploma can be studied full time as part of students’ legal education or ‘à la carte’ for professionals wishing to develop their expertise.

Objectives

Digital technology has permeated all aspects of our economy and created legal challenges and opportunities along the way. Traditional legal topics such as intellectual property and contract law have had to adapt to these new types of products and these new relationships with new actors. Technological innovations also call for regulation, seeking to protect our fundamental values while not stifling progress and the economic benefits of such innovations.

The LLM Digital law and technology proposes a program that will provide the knowledge required by lawyers to participate in the digital economy. This is a growing area of practice, and the skills required are sought after both in private practice and in the industry.

The LLM will explore the impact of the digital transformation of our economy from four angles: intellectual property, contract law, privacy, and regulation of artificial intelligence.

Students will gain a deep understanding of the core issues pertaining to these topics through a combination of recorded lectures, group discussions on a moderated online forum, personal reading, and group exercises coupled with an assessment regime tailored to online learning.

Graduates will develop useful skills in legal research, reasoning, legal drafting, and contract negotiation. These skills are highly sought after by employers.

Organization

Students will study four topics per semester over the course of 10 months and will be required to write a dissertation on a topic of their choosing (approved by their tutor).

The program will be taught remotely, save for an integration weekend on-site in Lyon, France, if travel conditions at this time are allowed. The program is mostly taught asynchronously, allowing students to pursue a professional activity in parallel.

Students will be granted access to our dedicated online platform to follow the course as well as an online library to pursue their research. Assessments will also take place remotely.

The program is taught over a 10-month period for full-time students. It is however possible to study part-time either over a two-year period or by differing the completion of the dissertation to the following academic year.

Advantages

This Online LL.M. Digital Law and Technology will offer several different advantages:

• Gain in-depth knowledge and expertise in fields of law that are highly sought after both in private practice and in the industry;
• Gain competencies highly in demand in a sector of the legal market that is growing;
• Study in your own time and compatible with other professional commitments;
• Possibility to study part-time;
• Continue your studies and make firm plans for the next year, irrespective of the evolution of the pandemic and travel restrictions;
• Course developed for online learning from the design stage to its delivery.

The Faculty of Law, which was founded in 1875, is based at the Saint-Paul campus in Lyon and the Alpes Europe campus in Annecy. Every year, it welcomes students who wish to join a dynamic and open university community where students, lecturers, researchers and administrative staff from different disciplines work together to achieve success and self-fulfillment.

All the courses offered are designed to train first-class legal practitioners (attorneys, notaries, judges, in-house counsels, etc.), but also critical ones, who will play an active role in the development of our society. The students develop theoretical, technical and methodological legal skills, but are also guided towards wider learning, professional development, international opportunities and an understanding of societal evolutions and transitions, especially in technology. The combination of these different skills, perspectives and considerations helps to develop the quality of discernment, which is essential for a successful career.

This commitment to delivering excellent degree programmes is underpinned by academic supervision and individual support for students, internationalization and professional development. It is embodied in a wide range of degree programmes: Bachelor’s degrees, international dual degrees, Master’s degrees, Diplômes Universitaires (DUs, university-issued diplomas) and specialization courses that keep pace with developments in the law and the types of expertise needed now and in the future.

Optimal Study Conditions

• 2 modern campuses, one in the peninsula in the heart of Lyon and a new campus in Annecy .
• A university library with thematic documentary resources comprising more than 250,000 volumes.
• Original associative projects in humanitarian aid, the environment, a student web radio with RCF.
• Innovative installations at the service of creativity: coworking room, learning lab, and an incubator.
• Numerous student services: housing, health, cafeterias, sports, community life, and chaplaincy.

An International University

• 68 partner universities
• 1,000 international students welcomed each year.
• Possibilities for studying abroad during one year or a semester
• French students are paired with incoming international students to help them, upon arrival, settle into life in Lyon.

Welcome to Lyon!

A European Metropolis

Lyon, the administrative center of the Rhône department and European metropolis of over 2.3 million inhabitants is situated at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers. Lyon is a cultural, artistic, and gastronomic center, as well as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As such, it has an abundance of architectural and cultural treasures.

It hosts events of international dimension such as the Dance and Art Biennale, the Nuits Sonores, the Nuits de Fourvière, the Fête des Lumières (Lyon festival of lights), etc.

Lyon offers a variety of cultural draws such as its Opera, House of Dance, theaters, museums, libraries.

It is one of France’s most prominent centers for European business. Many foreign and domestic companies of international scale, as well as international organizations (Interpol, Euronews, WHO, IARC), are located in Lyon and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Lyon is the second-largest student city in France with four universities and several colleges. The scientific community is very dynamic with particular centers of excellence in the areas of medical research, biotechnology, transportation, clean technology, and digital entertainment.