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This program provides current John Marshall JD students with an opportunity to gain specialized knowledge and develop a marketable expertise for today's practice environment.
WHY PURSUE A JOINT JD/LLM DEGREE?
- Develop specialized expertise
- Enhance your marketability
- Broaden your networking opportunities
- Save time and money
No matter what type of law you are interested in or what direction your career may take, you and your clients will be confronted with issues involving technology and privacy every day. The Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law offers a variety of courses and programs in that can help you develop marketable skills for today's technology-driven world.
Whether you want to gain experience with the technological tools that law practice and business rely on; develop substantive expertise in the technology and privacy issues facing lawyers and clients today; or design a strategic marketing plan that maximizes the use of technology for specific practice settings, we can help you pick specific course or design a course track for a specialized joint JD/LLM degree that will meet your needs and career trajectory.
By pursuing both the JD and LLM degrees concurrently, credits earned in IT and Privacy courses may be "double counted" allowing students to complete both degree requirements in less time (and for less money than if the degrees were pursued separately!
The joint JD/LLM degree program requires only 104 credit hours (as opposed to 114 credit hours if the degrees were pursued independently). Thus, the joint degree program is an extremely efficient and cost effective way to earn two degrees and enhance your marketability.
WHAT WE DO: Our substantive scope encompasses the wide range of issues that arise at the convergence of technology and law. In short, we examine the influence of technology on all areas of law and practice from both practical and scholarly perspectives. Unique to the program is our emphasis on privacy-related issues across the curriculum. Current controversies involving identity theft, financial privacy and security, global commerce, e-discovery, cyber-terrorism, mobile workforce, social networking, online defamation, consumer privacy, are all at the core of what we do.
Through our more than 20 individual courses, our joint degree program and extracurricular programs such as our Digital Dirt seminar where we discuss how your online activities can hurt your job search and offer tips on maximizing your marketability using online tools, to the international moot court competition that we host annually, and our top-ranked Journal of Computer and Information Law, the Center for Information Technology and Privacy Law opens the door to the future of law and law practice. Here, students may gain broad exposure to technology and privacy law and policy that impact all areas of law and practice or focus on a specialized area such as transactional law, global commerce, litigation, technology-based criminal law, consumer privacy or corporate privacy.
COURSES AND CURRICULUM: Our dynamic and up-to-date curriculum provides a solid foundation and specialized knowledge in IT and privacy law and policy. Our students come from all backgrounds. No technical expertise is required.
General information about joint JD/LLM degrees at the John Marshall Law School can also be found here.
Please use the link to the right to request more information about the Joint JD/LLM program in Information Technology and Privacy Law.
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