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If you undertake a Masters degree at UCD Sutherland School of Law, you will be studying at one of the Top 100 Law Schools in the World. You will be taught by leading academics where class participation and interaction is encouraged. As a member of the law school you are part of the largest and most international university in Ireland, learning from a diverse, research-active faculty.

This LLM combines intellectual property and information technology allowing for a deeper understanding of the interrelationship between these two topics, both of which have emerged as significant areas in the future development of law. Our internationally-renowned faculty is at the cutting edge of these subjects, conducting research in highly topical areas such as internet filtering, data protection and the protection of confidential information. We are also pleased to work with the UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics to obtain a deeper insight into the crucial area of information technology.

What Will I Learn?

Students are challenged to understand and think critically about various facets of Information Technology law, Intellectual Property Law and their inter-relationship. On completion of the degree you will have acquired a number of key skills including how to:

Demonstrate a detailed awareness of the law and current controversies in intellectual property and information technology and knowledge of areas where the theoretical underpinnings of the subject is being challenged.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of competing claims as to the validity and merit of legal rules and be able to consider whether or how emerging forms of regulation might impact on more traditional forms of regulation.
Have the intellectual toolkit required to research and write a major dissertation.
Integrate source material from a variety of disciplinary areas to reach reasoned decisions about the relative status of competing claims to knowledge.
Understand the national and international framework within which this area has developed.
Unpack complex arguments and to render intelligible to a non-specialist audience, key disciplinary insights.
Use knowledge of substantive law to advise on legal issues presented by factual situations and to evaluate and critique arguments as to whether and how the law in this field is in need of reform.

International Study Opportunities

Students on the full-time programme starting in September have the opportunity to spend a semester abroad as part of the Comparative, International and European Law (CIEL) graduate exchange programme with our partner Universities.

Career & Graduate Study Opportunities

The aim of this programme is to equip graduates with the knowledge, skills and capacity to work in the area of information technology and intellectual property law, whether domestically or internationally, as a practising lawyer, in-house legal adviser, policy maker or researcher. Graduates from this LLM have obtained employment in technology companies and leading law firms in the UK, Ireland and Asia.

Masters students in UCD Sutherland School of Law can benefit from engaging both with the UCD Careers Network and the Head of Career Development in the School. There are careers events hosted through the academic year and a specific Law Fair every October where Domestic and International Employers come on campus to meet with students