LEFIS General Assembly Firence 1 Information Technology Law Masters Programme Prof. Dr. Rimantas Petrauskas Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania)

LEFIS General Assembly Firence2 Information Technology Law Masters Programme DIPLOMA AWARDED Master of Laws (LLM)

LEFIS General Assembly Firence3 Information Technology Law Masters Programme This Study Programme was registered by Ministry of Education and Science of Lithuania in Full accreditation was awarded in 2004 by International committee (lawyers from USA, UK, Danmark, Latvia). Last changes there made in 2005.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence4 AIMS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW MASTERS PROGRAMME TO DEVELOP STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES ABOUT: 1) the new legal processes within the information society; 2) transformations of traditional legal institutes and processes in e-law; 3) to form the abilities and competence to manage information technologies that will help to solve legal problems in information society.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence5 AIMS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW MASTERS PROGRAMME Study programme aims at training the lawyers with special knowledge and skills necessary for working in the information society. Study programme aims to give a profound knowledge of the IT Law, its areas of applications and its realization in practice.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence6 DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW MASTERS PROGRAMME The study programme is developed with help and following the recommendation of EULISP – CDA (European Universities Legal Informatics Study Program) project.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence7 Admission criteria Students having academic background of Law: Bachelor in law; High legal education (ad list 3 years in University).

LEFIS General Assembly Firence8 Admitted full time students 2002/2003 – /2004 – /2006 – 14

LEFIS General Assembly Firence9 Admitted part time students (extramural studies) 2002/2003 – /2004 – /2006 – 22

LEFIS General Assembly Firence10 CONTENT OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW MASTERS PROGRAMME Study programme consists of the subjects in law and the subjects analysing the most important law institutes of information technologies, including: the intellectual property rights in cyberspace, telecommunications law, e-commerce and e-signature law, data protection and data security; Internet law and etc.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence11 1st semester Legal Regulation of Electronic Communication (4.5 ECTS credits) Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Cyberspace (6 ECTS credits) Information Technology and Law (6 ECTS credits) E-Governance (4.5 ECTS credits) Research Work (7.5 ECTS credits)

LEFIS General Assembly Firence12 1st semester Additional Courses Offered: Legal Statistics (4.5 ECTS credits)

LEFIS General Assembly Firence13 2nd semester Legal Regulation of E-commerce (6 ECTS credits) Internet Law (4.5 ECTS credits) Data Protection and Data Security (4.5 ECTS credits) Research Work (15 ECTS credits)

LEFIS General Assembly Firence14 3rd semester Cyber Crimes (6 ECTS credits) Artificial Intelligence and Law (4.5 ECTS credits) Master Thesis (21 ECTS credits)

LEFIS General Assembly Firence15 RESEARCH WORK Research work aims at developing the skills of scientific research work in the field of IT law that helps master students to work in an effective way embracing all the elements indicated in the plan for master’s studies.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence16 Final Master’s Thesis Studies end with Final Master’s Thesis, which is continuation of the research work. Students are doing written research work on chosen IT Law field on student’s own.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence17 Final Master’s Thesis THE MOST POPULAR IT LAW FIELDS FOR MASTER’S THESIS ARE: Intellectual property law, Legal problems of E-governance, Electronic communication and law, E-commerce law, Cyber crimes, Data protection and data security, Information society law.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence18 Subjects in English Legal Regulation of Electronic Communication Intellectual Property in Cyberspace E-commerce Law Cyber Crimes Data Protection and Data Security E-Governance Socio-Legal Statistics Artificial Intelligence and Law

LEFIS General Assembly Firence19 Academic Staff Professors: 43 % Associate Professors: 27 % Others: 30 %

LEFIS General Assembly Firence20 STRENGTHS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW MASTERS PROGRAMME The programme provide the possibility to the persons, who already have a fundamental legal education, to acquire specialised higher education of master degree in the area of legal informatics. Content of the programme is closely related to the nowadays processes existing in the social-legal process in EU and Lithuania, transformation to information society. The programme creates favourable preconditions for employment in the knowledge economy related business and public structures.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence21 STRENGTHS OF THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW MASTERS PROGRAMME Student are provided with good learning resources for studies. Teachers of high qualification teach in the programme. Students have the possibility to study in the universities abroad (Zaragoza,Spain, Lapland,Finland; Leuven, Belgium; Vienna, Austria) attend the lectures gave by the professors from this and others foreign universities, to take part in the research activity of departament. The programme complies with the international standards and the latest study programmes of higher schools abroad. Integrity of the programme: the programme unites the legal and technical subjects.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence22 Master’s Thesis defended in 2006 The Influence of Convergence on the Legal Regulation of Electronic Communications Penal Legal Characteristics of Informatics Crimes Legal Protection of Databases in France and Lithuania Legal Protection of Personal Data while Processing them in Police Information Systems

LEFIS General Assembly Firence23 Master’s Thesis defended in 2006 Legal environment of the E-government: Principles and Perspectives Impact of Cyberspace on the Intellectual Property Rights Legal Aspects of the Protection of Employees’ Privacy in Cyberspace Principles of Legal Regulation of Electronic Commerce and their Implementation in Lithuania

LEFIS General Assembly Firence24 Master’s Thesis defended in 2006 Harmful Contents of Websites: Regulation and Practical Legal Issues Protection of Personal Data at the Workplace Guarantees of Data Protection in the Databases of the Ministry of the Interior: Legal and Practical Aspects Protection of Intellectual Property in the Context of Internet Media

LEFIS General Assembly Firence25 Master Thesis defended in 2006 Legal Regulation of Electronic Contracts Electronic Democracy and its Legal Aspects Internet Self-Regulation in Lithuania and its Legal Preconditions Identification Problem of Internet Law Legal Regulation of Indirect Taxes in Cyberspace Implementation of Copyrights and Related Rights on the Internet Civil Liability in Cyberspace

LEFIS General Assembly Firence26 Research continuation during doctoral studies The best students may be invited for scientific doctoral studies (PhD studies). There are 8 PhD students studying in the field of Information Technology Law.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence27 Fields of doctoral studies - Doctoral Thesis 1. Legal aspects of informational anonymity in electronic environment. 2. Alternative regulation models of electronic communication. 3. Legal and patent protection of intellectual property. 4. Legal aspects of intellectual property protection in electronic environment.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence28 Fields of doctoral studies - Doctoral Thesis 1. The meaning of contract law in open source programs regulation. 2. Electronic documents, legal regulation of exchanging of them in EU and Lithuania. 3. E-commerce in public sector, in context of administrative reform. 4. Taxation of e-commerce, legal regulation in Lithuania context.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence29 Master’s Study Programme of Information Technology Law Master’s study programme of Information Technology Law is a logical continuation of the research works, which were conducted in the Mykolas Romeris University for several years. Mykolas Romeris University is seeking to have well integrated research mechanism in the field of Information Technology Law.

LEFIS General Assembly Firence30 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW MASTERS PROGRAMME Mykolas Romeris University Lithuania, Vilnius mruni.lt