| Degree awarded | Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) |
|---|---|
| Duration and credits | 8 semesters; 240 ECTS credits |
| Starts in | October (winter semester) |
| Language of instruction | German |
There's no need to be afraid of digitalisation in jurisdiction, administration and the legal profession: In the Legal Tech degree programme, you will learn when it makes sense to digitalise processes and how to convince the people concerned. The focus is not on developing new tools but on working out processes and optimising them. This is less about technical expertise and more about the motivation to bring complex processes into the 21st century.
The LL.B. Legal Tech programme provides you with a broad legal education at state-examination level and additional knowledge from the field of information systems combined with the necessary economic knowledge. Programming and database design, on the other hand, are not a central part of the programme, as the relevant skills can largely be automated and there are already sufficient standard tools available.
Please see the infosheet from the Academic Advice Service [German content] for details.
After completing the degree programme, you will be able to plan, design and support IT-driven processes in law firms, companies, courts or administrative authorities, e.g. as a legal engineer or consultant. You will also be able to independently provide digital legal services as a state-authorised collection service.
After successfully completing your bachelor's degree, you can deepen your technical skills (programming, database design, artificial intelligence) in the one-year master's programme LL.M. Legal Informatics at the University of Passau. Other master's programmes in law, business, economics or information systems in Germany or abroad are also conceivable.
If you also enrol on the Undergraduate Law Programme alongside your LL.B. programme and pass the first and second state examination in law, you will be able to pursue the full range of legal careers.
This bachelor's programme combines the compulsory law subjects, as defined by the Bavarian training and examination regulations for lawyers (JAPO), with the core syllabus of an information systems degree. The standard period of study is eight semesters. In your final semester, you will write a bachelor's dissertation.
This module group comprises foundational and advanced courses in private, constitutional and criminal law. Courses include the law of obligations, property law, and administrative law, including police and building law. You will also study European law.
This module group includes courses administered by the School of Business, Economics and Information Systems. You will learn about the core principles of business administration, in particular mathematics, accountancy, organisational management and cost accounting, and how they relate to information systems, such as business application systems, change management, IT management and information management. General technical foundations (such as scripting languages, networks and databases) are also taught in this module group.
The legal-tech-specific modules deal with the foundations of IT law (legal issues of digitalisation such as data protection and copyright) on the one hand, and the legal framework for public legal-tech offerings (professional law for lawyers) on the other. You will also learn how to write a bachelor's dissertation and complete an internship.
A module overview and list of courses to be taken can be found in the infosheet [German content].
This degree programme starts in the October (winter semester) each year.
Prospective students with a higher education entrance qualification from Germany or the EEA region (e.g. German Abitur or the Austrian Matura) can enrol directly for this degree programme during the enrolment period.
If you have previously studied (or are currently studying) the undergraduate law (state exam) programme, you can have assessments from your state exams credited towards your LL.B. Legal Tech degree. We therefore recommend that you get advice from the Academic Subject Advice Centre on credit transfers and starting your studies before you apply. The guidelines for credit transfers give you an overview of future credit transfer practice and answer frequently-asked questions.
Legal Tech syllabus for law students after completing the First State Examination in Law
Credit transfers for a good amount of coursework undertaken in this degree programme is possible if you want to study or complete the undergraduate law programme (state examination programme) after graduating from the LL.B. Legal Tech. On page 6 of the infosheet you can find out which areas of the law degree programme you need to catch up on.
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