LLM (Master of Laws) in IPR and Tech Law Course Subjects/Syllabus

LL.M. in Intellectual Property & Technology Law Curriculum

Legal Research Methodology

• Legal Research & Writing
• The Legal System: Foundations, Institutions & Processes
• Statutory Law & Interpretation
• Case Law & Precedents
• Judicial Public Policy Making: Common Law & Judicial Activism
• Research in a Law Firm: Due Diligence, Memos & Advice

Law and Justice in the Globalizing World

• Globalization and its Effects on the Development of International Commercial & Economic Law
• Challenges of Globalization to Law & Justice
• Formulation & Settlement of Transnational Norms & Practices
• Individual Rights vis-à-vis Free Market Principles & State Capitalism

Comparative Public Law

• Public and private law in practice
• Building an imagination around comparative, constitutional, and public law
• Constitutional guardianship, rights, democracy and the role of courts
• The unique position of international investments within public law and the legal principles governing it
• How domestic law responds to foreign investments and the significance of capital flow for development
• Investment contract regime and general threats to investments

Advanced IPR and IT Law

• Justification, Subject-matter, and Overview of Intellectual Property Laws
• Patent Law and the concern relating to Right to Health
• Concerns of developing countries relating to International Transfer of Technology
• Trademark Law and Issues relating to Trademark in Cyberspace: Trademark vs. Domain names, Domain name disputes, Cyber-squatting, typo-squatting, dilution, meta-tagging, linking
• Copyright and Issues Relating to Copyright in Cyberspace
• Liability of Intermediaries under the IT Act
• Jurisdictional Issues in Cyberspace

Intellectual Property and New Technology, AI

• Introduction to Intellectual Property in the Information Technology Age
• AI and IP
• Blockchain and IP
• Biotechnology and IP
• Other Areas such as 3d Printing, Virtual Reality, and IP
• The Way Forward for New Technologies and IP

Music and Copyrights

• Originality and Joint Authorship in Musical Works
• Economic Rights of the owner of Copyright holder (Mechanical Rights, Distribution Rights, Derivative Rights, Performance Rights)
• Non-Economic Rights (Moral Rights)
• Digitalization of Music
• Infringement of Musical Works

International Investment Law and Intellectual Property

• Evolution of the IIL regime to enable protection of IP rights under international law
• Significance and consequences of IP as protected investment in BITs and FTA investment chapters
• Evaluation of IP-related regulatory measures (such as compulsory licensing) liable to challenge by foreign investors before ISDS tribunals
• Relative and absolute standards of investment treaty, used by foreign investors to challenge IP-related regulatory measures
• Relationship between the IIL regime and other international law instruments on IP, such as the TRIPS Agreement
• Evolving treaty practice of States on IP within the IIL regime

TRIPS and Public Health

• Evolution of International IP Law and Policy in the Context of Global Public Health
• Basics of International IP Regime including treaties, agreements (TRIPS, Doha Declaration, Paris Convention, Bilateral Investment Treaties), and international institutions (WTO, WIPO, WHO, etc.)
• IP-trade linkage issues (IP and International Economic law) and its impact on Global Public Health outcomes
• Flexibilities within Intellectual Property globalization (Compulsory Licensing, Anti-evergreening Patentability Standards, etc.) as well as alternatives to the current framework (Open Science, Patent Pooling, Prizes, etc.)
• Role of IP laws in issues of Equitable Access and Social Justice that shape the current discourse as part of the wider debate about Global Public Health

GDPR: A European Example of Data Protection Law

• Data Protection Principles
• Rights of the Data Subject
• Controller and Processor
• Transfers of Personal Data to Third Countries
• Independent Supervisory Authorities
• Remedies, Liability, and Penalties
• Case Studies

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