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Intellectual Property Law – (LL.M.)

The University of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Law School
Application Deadline: 31st August
Location: Edinburgh / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴
Duration: 12 months Start Date: September
Educational Form:
  • Taught
Education Variants:
  • Parttime
  • Fulltime
Languages: English 
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The core subjects of the programme are intended to equip students with both an advanced knowledge of substantive intellectual property law and of the place and role of intellectual property within a domestic, regional and international context, laying a foundation for a specialised dissertation. The programme spans comparative study of the laws of patents, copyright, trade marks, designs, database protection, breach of confidence, passing off and related sui generis rights, as well as investigating a range of issues which underpin contemporary intellectual property law. The programme allows the students to explore intellectual Property law not just in its legal but also social, ethical, cultural and commercial contexts.
By the end of their studies for this degree, students will have acquired a high level of knowledge in the field of intellectual property law, a sophisticated awareness of the problems in the area and of the differing approaches to their solution.


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The LLM in Intellectual Property Law may be taken on campus over 1 year full time or 2 years part-time. This LLM may also be taken by distance learning over a period of 1, 2 or 3 years.
Students are required to complete 180 credits in order to achieve the LLM (120 credits from courses and 60 credits for the dissertation). At least 80 credits must be taken from the core courses listed below. On-Campus students may choose to take 40 of those credits from the list of on-line modules, although they may take no more than one 20 credit on-line module per semester and cannot take courses in one medium which are wholly or substantially the same as those they have already taken in the other. A third course worth 40 credits (or two modules worth 20 credits) may be chosen either from the list of optional courses below or from the wider portfolio of LLM courses.

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Core coursesOn-Campus Courses (20 Credits)Intellectual Property Law 1: Copyright and related rights
Intellectual Property Law 2: Industrial Property
Intellectual Property - Law & Society
IP and Technology: International Institutions
IP and Technology: Developing Countries
On-line Learning (20 Credits)International Intellectual Property Systems
Managing Intellectual Property
Optional CoursesOn-campus courses (40 credits)Medical Jurisprudence
On-campus courses (20 credits)Current Issues in EU Law and Practice
Law of E-Commerce
Data Protection & Privacy
European Media Law and Policy
Law and Journalism
Law of Climate Change
Legal Challenges of Information Technologies
Public Law and New Technologies
Sport and Law
On-line Learning (20 Credits)Biotechnology: Law and Society
Forensic Computing and Electronic Evidence
Information Technology and Legal Reasoning
Information: Control and Power
Forensic Computing and Electronic Evidence
International Public Health: Law and Security

Language Proficiency

Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): Grade A (Score: 80)

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