LEFIS Durham 2004

The Erasmus University LLM programme Law, Management and IT

Richard De Mulder

The world has changed

• Science and technology have boomed• The information society• Globalisation• 24 hours economy• Rapid changes • State power, sovereignty, terrorism• 4th generation (digital) law

New demands for lawyers

• Clients of lawyers will demand quantitative estimations of legal risks, costs and revenues

• Legal data will have to be studied in a jurimetrical way

• Lawyers will be responsible for legal knowledge management as a part of general management

• There will be digital law

• Legislation, judicial decision making and law enforcement will be more international

• Rapid changes make existing rules and techniques obsolete

The lawyer as a manager

• Management of a legal department

• Management of a law firm

• Document management

• Information management

• Legal knowledge management

• Managing the knowledge chain

• General management

The objectives of the Erasmus University LLM programme Law, Management and IT

Contemporary lawyers are more than just experts in law.

They are also expected to perform as consultants and managers.

Modern lawyers have a head for business and IT as well as for law.

The objectives of the LLM programme

By understanding the needs and expectations of managers, lawyers are able to provide better services and become better managers themselves.

 

Law, Management and IT

• Organisation and Communication Skills

• Introduction to Management and IT

• Finance and Accounting

• Computer Lab and Business Statistics

• Computer Law

• Law and Economics

• Legal Knowledge Management and Jurimetrics

• Marketing, Operations, Strategic Management

• Dissertation

Organisation and Communication Skills

• Legal English

• Managerial and IT terminology

• Group skills (homework groups)

• Presentation skills

• Managerial Grid leadership training

• Help and group support with dissertation

• Social network for students from all nationalities

LLM Business and Trade Law profile: Law and Management

• International Business Law• Company Law and Management• Finance and Accounting• Business Statistics and Computer Lab• Competition Law• Computer Law• Legal Information Management• Marketing, Operations, Strategic Management• One optional course• Dissertation• Organisation and Communication Skills (no credits)

LLM Business and Trade Law profile: Law and Management

• International Business Law• Company Law and Management• Finance and Accounting• Business Statistics and Computer Lab• Competition Law• Computer Law• Legal Information Management• Marketing, Operations, Strategic Management• One optional course• Dissertation• Organisation and Communication Skills (no credits)

LLM Business and Trade Law profile: Law and Management

• I am no longer an LLM programme director.• There is more law in the programme, less management and

even less IT.• No credits are given for Organisation and Communication

Skills. It is, however, available to all Business and Trade Law LLM students.

• For all Business and Trade Law students: optional subjects in Marketing - Operations - Strategy, Computer Law, Legal Informatics and Jurimetrics are now available.

• Management, Finance and Acounting are now compulsary for all Business and Trade Law LLM students

That’s all folks!