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.