LegalTech LL.M. - MRU

LegalTech LL.M.

Field of study Law
National Code 6215KX002
Degree awarded Master of Law
Duration 1 year
Language English
Tuition fee €3286 per one academic year (2024-2025)

Law Studies No. 1 in Lithuania.

MRU is #1 in the area of Law among all Lithuania’s universities according to “QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023”.

“The world of law is changing. As with many walks of life, technology provides an opportunity to change and streamline so many of the things we do, and we have also seen the same in law. Collecting evidence, legal research, e-discovery, and cyber security, all continue to be changed by technology. At MRU, we want to take a collaborative approach to legal technology.”

Prof. dr. Paulius Pakutinskas 
Programme Director, LL.M. LegalTech

An immersive and careers-focussed LLM programme in LegalTech, delivered at the #1 Law School in Lithuania according to the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2022, with a strong emphasis on the practical skills needed to enter different legal occupations.

This flexible, one-year LLM programme, delivered in English, provides an entry point to a wide range of different careers, including legal practice and entrepreneurship. It is delivered by specialists from Lithuania, Netherlands and Spain working in the field of legal technology, and ensures students get the benefit of the latest technologies and industry standards.

It provides face-to-face and experiential learning, including gamification and practical start-up simulations, that require students to prepare and defend a product or a start-up idea, all delivered flexibly in the evening, and through streamlined modules that meet student’s expectations and needs.

We work closely with global partners, including Evershed Saladzius, Amberlo, Fondia. We organise meetings and events with public bodies and local partners, and students can also benefit from wider extra-curricula activities, as well as the vibrant student community and academic environment at the University.

This programme focusses on soft as well as practical skills, such as collaboration and team working, commercial acumen, creative problem solving, digital transformation, and strategy. Our programme attracts global students, providing a valuable opportunity to work and network with new peers from across the world. It is an interdisciplinary programme, bringing together diverse areas such as data, artificial Intelligence, FinTech, RegTech, CyberTech, gamification, intellectual property, robotics, ethics and legal semantics. We also provide the opportunity to progress to Doctoral studies.

Students on this programme undertake a mandatory work placement that further provides practical learning opportunities in a real-life context and a chance to acquire valuable skills. 

Students live and get to network within Lithuania, and also the Baltics and EU, and can also sudy within the University’s specialist Innovation Labs.

At the Law School, there is a strong emphasis on ‘Law for a Quality Life’ and what the Law School can do to contribute to skills and career development.

More information on the LL.M. LegalTech programme, including the programme content, can be found below. Please contact Prof. dr. Paulius Pakutinskas if you have any further questions.

To enrol on this program, you will need to have a Bachelors degree in law and have attained English at B2 level. 

We offer attractive tuition fees are also available. More information on scholarships can be found here.

Apply Now to start your journey on this programme.

Relevant information
Why LegalTech LL.M.?
1. Careers focussed LL.M. Programme

Flexible, one-year LL.M. programme, providing entry points to a wide range of legal technology careers, including in legal practice and in R and D.

2. Delivered by international experts

Delivered by international experts working in the field of technology to ensure that students get the benefit of the latest trends in the market.

3. Flexible, hands-on learning Immersive and experiential learning, including gamification and practical start-up simulations that require students to prepare and defend a product or a startup idea, all delivered flexibly in the evening and through streamlined modules.  
4. Collaboration with international partners Exposure to and interaction with global partners in the world of legal technology, such as Evershed, Amberlo, Fondia and Saldzius.
5. Global networking opportunities

Affordable international programme, delivered in English, and providing opportunities to collaborate and network with peers from across the globe.

6. Commercial focus

Very strong focus on technology commercialisation and delivering value to multiple stakeholders.

7. Interdiscplinary programme

Interdisciplinary focus, bringing in significant areas such as data, artificial Intelligence, fintech, regtech, cybertech, gamification, intellectual property, robotics, ethics and legal semantics.

8. Compulsory work placement

Mandatory internship that provides practical learning opportunities in a real-life context and opportunity to acquire valuable skills. 

9. Work within innovation zone

Chance to network within the Baltics, at the gateway of the EU, and also globally recognised for up and coming innovation.

10. Study in the EU at the No.1 Ranked Law School in the country

Collaboate with experts and peers through face to face teaching at the Mykolas Romeris University in Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, a member of many EU and global networks, in the QS World Rankings, and also rated number 1 Law School in Lithuania for law studies.

Apply now to start your journey on this programme.

Study Content

STUDY PROGRAMME PLAN

Course units

ECTS credits

1st YEAR

60

1 SEMESTER

30

Compulsory course units

24

Law and Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities

6

Regulation of Fintech Industry

6

Games and Gamification methods for Law

6

Legal Semantic Technologies

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

Internship

9

Intellectual Property and Modern Technologies

6

Artificial Intelligence for Law and Law for Artificial Intelligence

6

Robotic Governance

3

Final Examination

6

Learning Outcomes

General competences and learning outcomes

  1. Personal and Social abilities
  • Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team of lawyers and technology specialists, to organize and manage work tasks and timing, effectively cooperate with colleagues reconciling opposing interests, objectives and knowledge of legal and technological specialists, to help specialists in the fields of law and informatics to cooperate constructively, to assign and coordinate work tasks;  
  • Ability to communicate with different audiences, including lawyers and technology specialists, to understand principles related to LegalTech start-up communication, to be able to transfer the specialized knowledge to relevant audiences and select appropriate communication means, platforms and tools; 
  • Ability to interest both specialists and people with a general profile with legal and technological knowledge and abilities, as well as to communicate that knowledge in an attractive way; to be able to organize, motivate, understand other team members, especially for reforms through LegalTech, and take into account the opinions of various specialists related to technological reforms and to understand the responsibility towards current and potential corporate clients and other people  who will be affected by the technological reforms. 

Subject specific competences and learning outcomes

  1. Knowledge and its application
  • Ability to apply and adapt the acquired LegalTech knowledge in practice, develop LegalTech idea and create conditions for its commercialization, or to gain the approval of specialists from the technology information, law, business and other fields for further practical development of the idea; 
  • Ability to develop simple legal technologies or contribute to the development of complex legal technologies. 
  1. Research skills
  • Ability to demonstrate well-developed skills of self-learning, to conduct LegalTech specific data search, to select most relevant sources and understand the depth of relevant scientific research, to plan resources and time necessary for implementation of tasks, to identify and manage the potential risks. 
  1. Special abilities
  • Ability to advise on issues related to legal aspects of newest technologies, to resolve various LegalTech interdisciplinary issues critically and creatively, including most complex ones, to prepare proposals for resolution of identified legal problems and legal regulation improvements, to select appropriate means and methods for problem solving and make well-grounded conclusions; 
  • Ability to critically analyze, interpret, compare, and assess legal relations and legal regulation of newest technologies, to make well-grounded proposals for improvement of legal regulation.  
Study Organization
Studies for the academic year 2023-2024 will start from September 1st and will be held physically on campus. Full-time studies on Campus are organized on a modular basis, where students study one subject consistently and intensively. Lectures are held on weekdays from 4:15 PM to 9:00 PM, three to four times a week.
 
Students have access to a video archive of all lectures.
 
As an exception, students who are unable to attend an intensive practical session for objective reasons may participate in intensive practical sessions by observing them remotely, after notifying the program manager and teachers in advance.
Admission Steps
  1. Choose a study programme
  2. Fill in the application form at apply.mruni.eu
  3. Pay the non-refundable application fee (for non-EU citizens – 100 euros, for EU-citizens and MRU alumni – 50 euros)
  4. Receive your application evaluation results
  5. Confirm your acceptance by paying the first-year tuition fee and 50 euros registration fee (non-refundable)
  6. Sign the study contract
  7. Start Temporary Residence Permit application procedure
  8. Register to studies
Admission Requirements

Required documents:

  • Bachelor degree or equivalent first university degree diploma in Law (3-year study duration minimum)
  • Academic Transcripts of each study year
  • Document proving English language level
  • Motivational letter
  • Passport copy

Additional educational documents might be required depending on the country of residence.

Provided documents must be in color, have no cut corners (high quality scan).

By submitting the documents applicant agrees for one’s information to be shared with other institutions that the University might refer to while processing the academic verification.

Applicants might be asked to participate in additional knowledge evaluation.

English Language Requirements

Required level – B2

Assessments of English language proficiency certificates equivalent to level B2:

  • TOEFL IBT 65-78
  • IELTS 5.0-6.5
  • DUOLINGO 100-125

If you do not have a certificate proving your English language proficiency level, you can take the University Online English language level test. You will be able to choose this option while filling in the application. The test is free of charge.

Certificate is not required if your native language is English or if your previous studies were conducted fully in English language.

Documents Legalization
  • If the original educational documents/transcripts are in English, Lithuanian or Russian with an apostille (if required) on the scanned original, no translation needed.
  • If original educational documents/transcripts are not in English, Lithuanian or Russian languages, then they have to be supplemented with an official translation.
  • The official translation has to be confirmed with the sworn translator’s signature or official notarization.
  • Accepted students shall present their original educational documents/transcripts to the International Office upon arrival to begin their studies.
Country Specific Requirements

Detailed information here.

Country

Documentation requirements

Cameroon

Higher Education Qualifications

 

  1. Diploma
  2. Official Academic Transcript (original or certified true copy) scanned and e-mailed from official university registrar’s email address to recognition@mruni.eu or posted directly to the Mykolas Romeris University (International Admissions, Ateities str. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania) in a sealed and stamped envelope.

China

Higher Education

  1. Degree Certificate (original or certified true copy)
  2. Graduation Certificate (original or certified true copy)
  3. Academic Transcript (original or certified true copy)
  4. Verification reports in English for the degree certificate issued by the China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Centre (http://cqv.chinadegrees.cn/ )

Please refer to General Documentation Requirements for more information.Please note that all documents issued in Chinese should be supplemented with an official translation into English, Russian, or Lithuanian. A translation is considered to be official when it is bound to a certified true copy of the document in the original language and is attested by the translator’s signature.

Congo (Democratic Republic of)

Higher Education Qualifications

 

  1. Diploma
  2. Official Academic Transcript (original or certified true copy) scanned and e-mailed from official university registrar’s email address to recognition@mruni.eu or posted directly to the Mykolas Romeris University (International Admissions, Ateities str. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania) in a sealed and stamped envelope.

Ghana

Higher Education Qualifications

 

  1. Diploma
  2. Official Academic Transcript (original or certified true copy) scanned and e-mailed from official university registrar’s email address to recognition@mruni.eu or posted directly to the Mykolas Romeris University (International Admissions, Ateities str. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania) in a sealed and stamped envelope.

India

Higher Education Qualifications

 

  1. Apostilled original degree certificate of 4 years minimum
  2. Apostilled original consolidated mark sheet of 4 years minimum

Nigeria

Higher Education Qualifications

 

  1. Diploma
  2. Official Academic Transcript (original or certified true copy) scanned and e-mailed from official university registrar’s email address to recognition@mruni.eu or posted directly to the Mykolas Romeris University (International Admissions, Ateities str. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania) in a sealed and stamped envelope.

Pakistan

Higher Education Qualifications:

  1. Diploma attested by the Higher Education Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  2. Full Academic Transcript attested by the Higher Education Commission and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

South Korea

Higher Education

  1. Certificate of Graduation and Transcript posted directly to our office by the higher education institution in a sealed and stamped envelope.

United States

Higher Education

  1. Diploma;
  2. Official academic transcript submitted in a sealed and stamped envelope;
Qualification Recognition

Recognition of Foreign Qualifications

  • The evaluation and recognition of prior qualifications is a part of Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) admissions process.
  • By submitting the online application you confirm that the documents are legitimate and that MRU can verify the authenticity of the documents by contacting its issuing authority and national ENIC/NARIC centre.
  • Documents uploaded must be in good condition and in full colour. Documents issued in languages other than English, Russian, or Lithuanian must be accompanied with an official translation into English or Lithuanian. 
  • Before you apply make sure that you have a complete documentation package and that your qualifications are giving access to higher education according to the study programme level you are applying for at the MRU.  

Recognition Criteria

  • The purpose of an assessment is to compare a foreign qualification with a similar level qualification awarded in Lithuania according to quality, profile, content, workloads and learning outcomes.
  • Your qualification will be assessed according to specific requirements for the programme you are applying for and whether your academic results are sufficient for studies at the MRU.

Right to Appeal

Recognition decisions can be appealed against to the Academic Recognition of Foreign Qualifications Concerning Higher Education Appeal Committee under the Lithuanian Ministry of Education and Science.

All appeals with supporting documents must be submitted to:
Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education
Ph.: +37052104778
Email: recognition@skvc.lt 
Address: SKVC, A. Goštauto st. 12, LT-01108, Vilnius, Lithuania

The procedure of evaluation and recognition of academic qualifications

Fees

Application fee (non-refundable):

  • for Non-EU citizens – €100
  • for EU citizens and MRU Alumni – €50

Registration fee (non-refundable):

  • €50

Tuition fee (EU/Non-EU citizens) per 1 academic year: €3286 (academic year 2024-2025).

Payment information will be provided in the invoices issued in your online application form.

Student continues to pay the same tuition fee which was implied at the time of the admission.

Contact Us
International Admissions Office
Didlaukio str. 55, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania

E-mail: study@mruni.eu
Phone: +370 5 271 4700
WhatsApp: +370  6 564 6682
Office: L-305

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