Master in Law, Technology and Business
Vilnius, Lithuania
DURATION
1 up to 2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
19 Aug 2024
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2024
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,286 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Looking for the most cutting-edge master's degree? Do you want to narrow down your law specialization? Are you aiming to go through your studies and raise your career prospects? Do you want to study not just theory, but practice too?
If any or all of the above questions came back with a positive answer, seriously consider taking your master's degree in Law, Technology, and Business. It is the most cutting-edge law degree available from universities in Vilnius.
Study in Lithuania, a country that IT companies choose as their main talent pool. Study close to your potential employers and gain a world-class university education. Become a master of law in contemporary and futuristic topics of cybersecurity, GDPR IP, Fintech, Regtech, cybercrime, robotics and so much more.
Learn practical applications of law, business, and technology. Participate in hackathons, meetups, workshops, and international competitions, where you will get a chance to build your legal startup.
Conduct your law studies in English, to further strengthen your competence as an international tech and legal expert. To take full advantage of this course, you will be required to know English at the B2 level.
Learn from our partners who contribute to our study programs and help us deliver the best experts in the field. Study with our partners at Eversheds Saladzius – a legal firm, with Blockchain Centre Vilnius, Tech SuperHeroes, Startup Lithuania, other IT companies, start-ups, and more. Don’t be bogged down just by theory. Learn multidisciplinary practice and become the best expert you can be.
Get your diploma in Master of Law in Europe, from one of the best universities in Lithuania. After 1,5 years of studies, you will receive your master's degree in the field of law. You will also be awarded 90 ECTS credits for your future studies. Upon completion of your studies, you will be able to work with the newest legal technologies and AI, advise on legal issues, and legal services development strategies and tactics, develop, implement, and commercialize innovations in public and private legal sectors, and conduct further research in the legal tech field.
At MRU, you will also find a low tuition fee, making this master's degree even more enticing.
Admissions
Curriculum
| Course units | ECTS credits |
| 1st YEAR | 60 |
| 1 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 24 |
| Law and Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities | 6 |
| Regulation of the Fintech Industry | 6 |
| Legal Semantic Technologies | 6 |
| Games and Gamification Methods for Law | 6 |
| Alternatively elective course units 1 | 6 |
| Cyber Crime and Forensics | 6 |
| Privacytech: Privacy, Security and Technology | 6 |
| 2 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Intellectual Property and Modern Technologies | 6 |
| Start-ups and Venture Capital | 6 |
| Internship | 9 |
| Artificial Intelligence for Law and Law for Artificial Intelligence | 6 |
| Robotic Governance | 3 |
| 2nd YEAR | 30 |
| 3 SEMESTER | 30 |
| Compulsory course units | 30 |
| Master Thesis | 6 |
| Master Thesis | 18 |
| Master Thesis | 6 |
Rankings
MRU is #1 in the area of Law among all Lithuania’s universities according to “QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023”.
Program Outcome
General Competencies and Learning Outcomes
- Personal and social abilities
- Ability to think critically and creatively and to identify problems, analyze them and assess them comprehensively, to provide proposals to solve the identified problems, to choose the appropriate solutions and methods, and make reasoned conclusions;
- Ability to demonstrate well-developed skills of self-learning, which provide for adequately targeted and independent continuation of studies;
- Ability to organize and control the team-work and time by effective cooperation with colleagues and coordination of contrasting interests;
- Ability to convey logical, knowledge-based conclusions clearly and unambiguously for specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Subject-specific competencies and learning outcomes
- Knowledge and its application
- Ability to understand and explain new technologies in the field of law, to understand their destructive and sustainable effects, to know ethical principles applicable to technologies, to solve independently complex legal issues;
- Ability to independently analyze, synthesize, and evaluate legal facts and related data, integrate legal knowledge, apply the methodology of scientific knowledge, clearly and unambiguously formulate logical conclusions based on legal knowledge, focused on the improvement of professional activities and convey them in the English language for both specialists and non-specialists in a global market environment.
- Research skills
- Ability to conduct research: on the topic of international and national law and globally operating technologies;
- Ability to search for, select the necessary, examine, and analyze information on law and technology as well as on related or necessary topics, to raise reasonable hypotheses, research tasks, and goals, and implement them.
- Special Abilities
- Ability to critically analyze, interpret, compare,, and evaluate the legal relations regulating technologies, and the legal acts regulating them, to make reasonable proposals for the improvement of these legal acts;
- Ability to independently initiate and develop a business in the field of legal technologies, understand the startup ecosystem, know financing options, know how to protect intellectual property, to trade secrets by legal, organizational,, and technical means;
- Ability to professionally provide interdisciplinary services in the field of law and technology both independently and in a team;
- Ability to create, use, analyze,, and explain legal technologies, innovations such as artificial intelligence, big data analytics, chain technologies, semantic and emotional technologies, and the use of open data in the legal services sector.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
MRU seeks to ensure that all of our students receive high-quality education regardless of their financial situation, therefore, please find all the available scholarships for prospective international students listed below.
Note:
- All the listed scholarships are funded either by the Government of Lithuania or Mykolas Romeris University
- There might be additional funding from students’ countries of origin
- All EU citizens can apply for state-funded studies
- Scholarships for current international students are listed here
State scholarships for full-time master degree studies
Each year, the Education Exchanges Support Foundation opens applications for Lithuanian state scholarships for international full-time Master’s degree students accepted at Lithuanian higher education institutions.
The scholarship includes a monthly stipend and a grant covering study costs.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the program will be capable to:
- Work with the newest legal technologies and AI;
- Advise on legal issues;
- Develop, implement, and commercialize innovations in the public and private legal sectors;
- Conduct research in the legal tech field.