Trade Regulation
The Big Picture
One of law's greatest challenges is promoting and managing innovation. Inventions and new cultural products have long enriched our physical well-being, cultural life, and economy. Today, the generation of information is becoming one of the most important sources of wealth for nations around the world.
Combining state-of-the-art policy and technical expertise with sophisticated legal analysis, the LL.M. in Trade Regulation is unique in its approach to training students by developing an integrated understanding of the dynamic forces that shape contemporary economic activity and innovation. In the Program, students develop in-depth knowledge in one of the three areas of concentration— antitrust and competition policy, intellectual property and international trade— while studying at least one course in each of the other two areas. The rich curriculum provides ample options for varied interests, from courses on U.S. antitrust law, comparative competition law, European Union law, government regulation, antitrust law and economics, to basic and advanced intellectual property courses on copyright, patents, and trademarks, to courses on international trade and the WTO, along with the cutting-edge Colloquium on Innovation Policy.
Annual Events and Symposia
Intellectual life outside the classroom includes monthly brown bag lunches for Trade Regulation LL.M.s and interested faculty, and frequent lectures, conferences, workshops, and symposia bringing specialized faculty from many universities together to address topics of emerging interest or significant debates in the field. Organized by the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, the Information Law Institute, as well as by interested faculty and students, recent events have included:
- International Competition Policy Workshop: Antitrust and Intellectual Property
- Anti-Dilution: The Theory and the Reality of Extended Trademark Protection in the U.S. and EU
- Caught in the Web: Privacy Concerns in Cyberspace
- Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property
- Spyware Workshop
- Identity and Identification in a Networked World