November 06, 2011

IU Maurer School of Law, USA, and Oxford Internet Institute, UK, to offer new program in information law and policy

The Indiana University Maurer School of Law, USA, has signed an agreement with the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), a department of the University of Oxford in England, UK, creating a new program that will allow students to earn a certification in information law and policy from the British university and a Master of Laws degree from IU.

Aimed primarily at international students, the new program will give students with an American law degree or non-U.S. equivalency the opportunity to take 14-16 credit hours of existing regular law courses in the area of information and intellectual property law.

Admitted students will spend the fall semester in Bloomington and the spring term at Oxford, where they will take specialized courses and complete a 10,000-word thesis. The thesis provides students the opportunity to apply the methods and approaches covered during their coursework and carry out a substantive piece of academic research on an information law and policy-related topic of their choice.

Students who complete 24 credit hours from IU or the equivalent and an acceptable thesis will receive an LL.M. (Master of Laws) degree from the Maurer School of Law and a Certificate in Information Law and Policy from the OII.

The agreement takes effect immediately, with expectations that the first students will begin the program in fall 2012.