LLM Digitalization and Law at University of Würzburg

English-taught, part-of-further-education Master of Laws that builds on prior legal training and specialises in IT law, legal tech, artificial intelligence, computer science and data protection law. The cohort is limited to 40 to 45 students and the degree includes the certificate for the theoretical part of the Fachanwalt für IT-Recht (section 14k FAO). No technical background is required.

Faculty: Faculty of Law  |  Department: LL.M. Digitalization & Law (Chair of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Media Criminal Law)  |  Duration: 1.5 years (3 semesters); 90 ECTS  |  Intake: October (winter semester)  |  Study mode: full-time; continuing-education programme (weiterbildender Studiengang); international programme  |  Location: Würzburg, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

Compulsory area (30 ECTS, winter semester): Introduction to Computer Science, Introduction to German IT Law, Machine Ethics, Fundamental Rights and Data Protection, Computer and Internet Criminal Law I and Procedural Law. Elective area (30 ECTS, summer semester): six of nine modules, among them Corporate Law and Digitalization, Legal Tech, Competition Law in the Age of Digitalization, Intellectual Property, Robot Law/Law of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Contract Law/Consumer Protection and Labour Law and Digitalization. Final area (30 ECTS): Master's thesis (25 ECTS) and colloquium (5 ECTS).

Career pathways

Graduates work in a largely English-speaking legal environment specialised in digitalization, in particular IT law.

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