LLM in Competition, Innovation and Information Law
Watch: Joaquina Diaz Corona LLM ‘22 on meeting other people interested in antitrust.
Faculty
ÈâÂþÎÝ Law has assembled a remarkably strong group of faculty who are leaders in the fields of , —copyright, patents, and trademarks—and . They are world-renowned for their scholarship and engagement in policy debates, and they include experts in international and comparative aspects of competition policy and intellectual property.
To complement the government and practice experience that our full-time faculty bring to the classroom, you'll choose from courses taught by lawyers in art law, entertainment law, and fashion law, and litigators in patent law and antitrust law. These practitioners offer their insights gleaned from years of professional experience in New York.
Watch: AnnaKay Brown LLM ‘22 on why she enjoyed her Trademark class.
Choose a Focus Area
In this specialization, you will decide to focus in one of two areas: antitrust and competition policy, or intellectual property and information law. You'll have access to foundational classes and an array of advanced seminars and other courses in both areas. In many of our courses, you will find professors who balance theoretical discussions with examples of the implementation of evolving regulations and policy in the US and abroad.
The Program
Innovative Courses
In the Innovation Policy Colloquium and the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations, you'll critique and debate emerging scholarship and engage directly with the authors who are invited to campus to present their work.
For exposure to practice, you can opt for the or . In courses like these, you'll consider the perspectives of the relevant stakeholders and how each approached the various stages of the action.
An Integrated Approach
Rapidly-evolving technologies, regulatory debate, scientific research, and forms of artistic production create new legal challenges. You'll be asked to question how the law can foster an environment in which creativity and entrepreneurship flourish. To answer, you'll connect with economists, legal scholars, and practitioners to examine both laws that encourage innovation through competition and those that incentivize it by protecting advances in the arts and sciences.
A number of our centers and institutes, and the conferences, programs and events they convene, focus on legal issues in innovation. You'll connect with the real-world practitioners and policymakers they attract to campus. You also can join student groups and journals dedicated to these issues.
Centers and Institutes
Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy
Information Law Institute
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Student Groups and Journals
Art Law Society
Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society
Media Law Collaborative
Event Highlights
Luncheon Speaker Series
Antitrust and Competition Policy Forum
Engelberg Center's IP Events
Faculty Insight
Watch: , who teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, torts, and comparative constitutional law, talks about studying creativity and innovation.
Meet the 2025-26 Faculty Directors
Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law
Antitrust and Competition Policy
John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Intellectual Property and Information Law