Master in Economic Law, 2nd year: Innovation Law

Our societies and economies are undergoing a major digital transition that has radically changed our lives, our modes of expression, information and creation, our consumption and our interactions. In parallel with this digital revolution, intellectual property, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, software and other forms of innovation, now accounts for more than 85% of the assets of the world's largest companies.

From GAFAM to start-ups, from the luxury goods sector to literary publishing, from the pharmaceutical industry to music production, from IT giants to the art market, all these major sectors of our economies are affected by legal issues relating to the development of products and services linked to innovation and the Internet. How are music, films and software protected on the Internet and how are authors remunerated? How can the law fight against misinformation and hate speech on social networks? Are patents an obstacle to global access to medicines and healthcare? Can artificial intelligence innovate without reproducing and accentuating current social inequalities and bias? Can a company monopolise colours, slogans, shapes, images or simple words by reserving them as a trademark? Can an algorithm create a work of art? Should the major digital platforms be better regulated, and how? Will freedom of expression survive Internet regulation? Will our personal data be lost to the internet giants? How can the Metaverse and blockchain be regulated?

The aim of the Innovation Law (DI) specialty is to enable students to grasp the issues and challenges of this immaterial and digital transition and to learn about the various branches of law that are addressing it: regulation of digital technologies and players, copyright law, patent law, trademark law, personal data law, art law, from a perspective that is at once theoretical, practical, comparative and international, with courses taught in French and English.

The Innovation Law specialty offers a myriad of national, European and international career opportunities in a variety of sectors and environments: French and international law firms, European and international public institutions, legal offices in technological, pharmaceutical, cultural, internet, luxury and distribution companies, as well as NGOs defending digital freedoms, patients' rights, fair trade, and so on. Some of our students have also gone on to pursue careers outside the law in music or movie production, museums and galleries exhibitions, free software economy, promotion of innovation.

PROGRAMME

Curriculum overview

• 3rd Semester Curriculum (in French)
• 4th Semester Curriculum (in French)

Extra-curricular activities 

• Internship and Gap Year
• Cooperative projects and moots

Calendars

• 2nd year, programme DI (PDF in French, 34 Ko)
• University calendar (mid-term and final exams)