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Postgraduate Course

LLM Law and Technology

LLM Law and Technology
The details
Law and Technology
October 2025
Full-time
1 year
Colchester Campus

The LLM in Law and Technology at Essex Law School gives you the opportunity to analyse the impact of modern technologies on the application of traditional legal principles and the ways in which challenges raised by modern technologies could and should be addressed by the law. You will gain an understanding of how modern technologies impact the law and the society around us, and you will be able to select a range of modules that incorporate aspects of technology enabling you to effectively specialise in commercial or human rights law along with having a course in law and technology.

This course will give you specialised knowledge that is invaluable in our technology driven society. While opening up a wide range of career opportunities, such as in technology companies, or as a legal technologist, as well as within traditional law firms, corporations, or NGOs who are looking to hire a technology native lawyer or as technology policy advisor.

Why we're great.
  • Choose from optional modules to develop extensive knowledge in the areas that interest you the most.
  • University of Essex is 15th for international outlook in the world (the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023)
  • The course will develop your intellectual curiosity and critical thinking, encourage you to think independently and teach you to present rational, coherent and accurate arguments orally and in writing.

Our expert staff

Our internationally diverse community of staff and students gives us a breadth of cross-cultural perspectives and insights into law and justice around the world.

This community, combined with opportunities to study abroad during your time with us, ensures you graduate with a genuine worldview and a network of international contacts.

Specialist facilities

  • Volunteer at the Essex Law Clinic where you can work alongside practicing solicitors to offer legal advice to clients
  • Participate in mooting competitions to develop your skills, particularly important if you hope to become a barrister
  • Join our Model United Nations society, which can improve your skills of argumentation, oral presentation and research
  • Take advantage of networking opportunities throughout the year with visiting law firms

Your future

Essex Law School graduates have gone on to a wide variety of careers in international and intergovernmental organisations or employment with governments across the world, in commerce and banking, in non-governmental organisations and, as might be expected, in the legal profession and the judiciary.

During the year, we hold a careers session for our students in which we reflect upon our own careers and how they have been built as well as those from former students. We are always available to discuss career options and if you are interested in a particular area of the law, we can link you up with the relevant alumni to offer advice.

We also work with the university's Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.

At Essex we pride ourselves on being a welcoming and inclusive student community. We offer a wide range of support to individuals and groups of student members who may have specific requirements, interests or responsibilities.

Find out more

The University makes every effort to ensure that this information on its programme specification is accurate and up-to-date. Exceptionally it can be necessary to make changes, for example to courses, facilities or fees. Examples of such reasons might include, but are not limited to: strikes, other industrial action, staff illness, severe weather, fire, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack (whether declared or not), natural disaster, restrictions imposed by government or public authorities, epidemic or pandemic disease, failure of public utilities or transport systems or the withdrawal/reduction of funding. Changes to courses may for example consist of variations to the content and method of delivery of programmes, courses and other services, to discontinue programmes, courses and other services and to merge or combine programmes or courses. The University will endeavour to keep such changes to a minimum, and will also keep students informed appropriately by updating our programme specifications. The University would inform and engage with you if your course was to be discontinued, and would provide you with options, where appropriate, in line with our Compensation and Refund Policy.

The full Procedures, Rules and Regulations of the University governing how it operates are set out in the Charter, Statutes and Ordinances and in the University Regulations, Policy and Procedures.

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