Artificial Intelligence, Law and Technology LLM

Compulsory

• LX5500 Dissertation (in a relevant field of Artificial Intelligence, Law and Technology)

  A 15,000-word research work to enable you to acquire a well-developed knowledge and understanding of an area of AI, Law and Technology within the scope of the programme and to improve skills in interdisciplinary legal research and writing.

• LX5666 – Artificial Intelligence, Law & Ethics

  This module introduces students to opportunities and socio-economic, ethical, policy and legal challenges posed by AI and existing regulatory rules and standards focusing primarily on AI decisions affecting individuals’ persons.

• LX5616 — Privacy and Data Protection

  Privacy and data protection law provides students with solid theoretical and practical understanding of the legal framework on data privacy law in the EU, the UK and at global level.

• AI and Compliance

  This module is designed to equip students with an in-depth understanding of the complex regulatory and governance frameworks for AI, primarily focusing on legal compliance with sectoral, and cross-sectoral AI legislations, with special emphasis on impact assessments.

• Regulating Digital Markets and Online Platforms

  This module examines why and how digital markets and online platforms (e.g., search engines, social networks) are regulated across the globe

Optional

• LX5647— Business and Human Rights

  This module addresses the links between business (broadly understood) and human rights. It seeks to identify how corporations (including supply chains), investment, trade liberalisation, sovereign debt and intellectual property affect the enjoyment of human rights.

• LX5658— Banking and Tech Law

  Recently, banks and other financial institutions have made considerable investments in financial technologies. This is inevitably changing the industry from a business and regulatory perspective. This module will provide you with an in-depth knowledge of the interplay between the banking industry and the technological world.

• LX5617— Principles of International Commercial Arbitration

  Providing an understanding of the general principles of international arbitration and a comparison of the main alternative dispute resolution processes – arbitration, mediation and adjudication, this module allows you to critically analyse the use of arbitration to resolve international business and commercial disputes.

• LX5624—Internet Law

  This module intends to examine the nature of the Internet and its impact on commerce. It covers subjective legal issues of Internet Law, and it analyses relevant international regulatory framework in response to the development of new technologies.

• LX5676 Bioethics and Biomedical Law

  Introduces students to key principles of bioethics and their relationship with biomedicine and the law. It covers philosophical foundations, the impact of disruptive biomedical technologies on social, political, and legal structures, and divergent international and regional laws regulating biomedicine.

  The module also explores regulatory challenges associated with emerging biotechnologies, examples of bioethics in clinical settings, and controversial biomedical technologies such as genome editing and human cloning.

• LX5674 - Patents and Trademarks

  The module aims to provide students with essential knowledge about UK patent and industrial design law in the context of EU and international obligations

• LX5675 - Copyright and Allied Rights

  The module aims to provide students with essential knowledge about UK copyright law and trademark law at both EU and international level.

• LX5673 - Intellectual Property and New Technologies

  The module will address issues born from the interaction of intellectual property and the new technologies: Information Technologies (IT), the digital environment and the Internet, biotechnology.

  It will cover copyright protection for works belonging to Information Technology, Digital Copyright, Patent protection, Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection and Blockchain.

• LX5655 International Commercial Law

  In this module you will be introduced to the general framework of international commercial law, the law of international sale contracts and related matters, including cross-border dispute resolution, transport, and broader social concerns such as labour and corruption.

• LX5657 Governance, Regulation and Compliance

  This module will introduce you to the foundations of compliance in a financial institution and financial department of a corporation, while also providing a comprehensive inspection of governance and regulatory risk approaches.

• LX5672 Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability and ESG

  The module examines and critically analyses corporate responsibility, and the requirements of Sustainability and ESG in modern business and the international dimensions of these concepts.

• LX5665— International Humanitarian Law

  The module will introduce theoretical and practical foundations of the International Humanitarian Law (IHL), enabling students to become familiar with the historical, moral, and political sources of this branch of international law.

  This module will take a critical approach at the rules that govern the conduct of hostilities, with an emphasis on the humanitarian aspect of the legal protection that is applied to certain protected groups (e.g. non-combatants and civilians).

  Students will also be able to make the necessary connections with human rights law in times of conflict, and the underlining rationale for the protection of certain groups/individuals in armed conflicts. 

  We will start this module by looking at the historical development of this set of rules, and essentially questioning the morality of the laws of war followed by fundamental principles that govern IHL.

  Geneva Conventions, paying particular attention to the rights of lawful combatants and civilians and then examine specific contemporary issues in relation to the protection offered by IHL in armed conflict: human rights, the environment, and cultural property.