Law Applied to Technology (Law and Tech)

At theLaw Applied to Technology (Law and Tech) program from theUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, thefocus 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 Law Applied to Technology (Law and Tech) program from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa 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

Employability

The program is designed to ensure that each student becomes a law and technology expert, while giving him or her the opportunity to build a unique professional profile.

Strong in its core and specialization components, the program equips the students with essential skills for a vast array of job opportunities across several professional sectors: among them, the areas of legal practice, policymaking, managing and advisory roles in public and private entities as well as entrepreneurial and corporate positions.

Goals

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.

Courses included:

• Law and Technology Intensive Course

• Emerging Technologies: Governance and Regulation

• Technological DeepDive
• Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
• E-Governance
• Data Protection and Management Law
• Law of Online Platforms