Education objectives
Upon completion of this master's program, students will have acquired:
Horizontal knowledge on the interactions between law and technology;
Specific knowledge and competences in emerging areas of legal regulation that will allow them to be competitive on the job market;
Skills to adapt existing legislation to the challenges created by new technological applications;
Hability to interact with technological experts and to overcome the disciplinary barriers that make communication difficult;
Analytical, critical, and argumentative skills to become particularly effective in providing legal services to new and emerging technologies.
The focus is on the digital and other types of emerging technological transformations. The study of law within this focus is approached in international, transnational, and comparative way.
The program has a common core of courses: Law and Technology Intensive Course, Technological Deep Dive, and Methodology of Legal Research. These ensure that students acquire a set of basic, horizontal conceptual and analytical tools needed to become law and technology experts. Building on this common core, the program offers 3 specialisation tracks that seek to address different technological realities and their impact on different facets of the legal world, namely:
Digitalisation and public policies
The law of the data-driven markets
Intellectual property and the regulation of innovation
General characterization
DGES code
MF283
Cicle
Specialization Area
Degree
Master
Access to other programs
Access to the PhD Program.
Coordinator
Orlando Scarcello,Orlando Scarcello
Opening date
September
Vacancies
120
Fees
National student Annual Tuition Fees for the Academic Phase: 5.200,00 Euros National student Annual Non-Taught Phase Tuition Fee: 2.000,00 Euros National student Tuition Fees for Additional Non-Taught Semester: 1000,00 Euros International student Annual Tuition Fees for the Academic Phase: 8000,00 Euros International student Annual Non-Taught Phase Tuition Fee: 3000,00 Euros International student Tuition Fees for Additional Non-Taught Semester: 1500,00 Euros
Schedule
This course is taught during daytime hours. Some optional Course Units may be taught after working hours.
Teaching language
Portuguese
Degree pre-requisites
A master´s degree is awarded to students who have passed all the course units that make up the taught part of the course, for a total of 60 credits; and the dissertation, project work, or internship report.
This path is an option of
Master's in Law Applied to Technology (Law & Tech)
Conditions of admittance
Holders of the degree of licenciado or legal equivalent.
Evaluation rules
The final assessment of the curricular units consists, as a rule, of a written exam with a maximum duration of three hours, under an anonymous regime, designed to assess the extent to which students have achieved the curricular goals and learning objectives of such curricular units. Other complementary elements of assessment may be used, as long as they are announced to the students orally and in writing at the beginning of the semester.
Structure
1 year - Mandatory | ||
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Code | Name | ECTS |
33301 | Technological DeepDive | 2 |
33302 | Law and Technology Intensive Course | 6 |
33290 | Patent and Trademark Law | 6 |
37057 | Copyright and Design Law | 4 |
37084 | Copyright and Design Law | 6 |
33262 | Methodology of Legal Research | 6 |