UConn’s Board of Trustees has approved a new academic degree program at UConn School of Law: an LLM (master of law degree) in Intellectual Property Law and Information Governance. It will be the only master of laws program in intellectual property offered in Connecticut, and the only one in New England with a focus on policy and global intellectual property law.
Pending acceptance from the American Bar Association, UConn Law will enroll students in the new program starting in the fall of 2016. It will be the fifth LLM program at the law school, which has long offered LLM degrees in U.S. legal studies and insurance. It added two more in 2015: one in human rights and social justice and the other in energy and environmental law.
The new program will be open to applicants who hold a law degree from a law school in the United States or an accredited law program in another country. International students on visas will be eligible to complete the 24-credit requirement in two or three semesters. U.S. students may take up to five years to finish the course on a part-time basis.
Professor Steven Wilf, the Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at UConn School of Law, will administer the academic components of the LLM in Intellectual Property Law.
