„In order for law to keep pace with economic and social changes, it needs the creativity of motivated and dynamic legal advisors – the LL.M. program is designed to support and encourage this creativity from an entrepreneurial and practice-oriented perspective.“ Dr. Lukas Staffler, PhD, Academic Director

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Overview

The digitalization of the economy is advancing rapidly and on a comprehensive scale. At the same time, this also increases the need for legal expertise. This raises the question, how can traditional companies implement online trading in a legally secure manner? What strategic considerations do startups need to take into account when it comes to employment contracts or company formations? With the practice-oriented LL.M. program, legal professionals acquire key competencies in digitization and law to support companies and organizations in their diverse challenges of the digital age.

Legal activities, whether in companies, law firms, government agencies or advocacy groups, are undergoing a radical digital transformation. Big data, cloud computing, internet of things, blockchain, and artificial intelligence are just some of those buzzwords with which representatives of the legal and business advisory professions as well as in-house counsel are increasingly confronted.

The practice of digital transformation of existing companies and the founding of startups are putting the law to test, as are new business models in the digital economy. Traditional legal studies can usually only partially reflect this rapid development and are primarily oriented towards national law. However, the reality shows that companies are networking across national borders and opening up new markets through digital innovations. Digital entrepreneurship in particular confronts legal practice with new kinds of questions. To meet this acute demand, MCI | The Entrepreneurial School® offers business-related and practice-oriented continuing education that prepares decision-makers as well as consultants in the legal field in the best possible way for the legal challenges posed by the digitalization of international business activities.

Susanne E. Herzog
Mag. Susanne E. Herzog Associate Dean Continuing & Executive Education
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Structure & Content

The postgraduate Master degree program LL.M. Digital Business & Tech Law is geared towards the requirements of the digital economy and the legal challenges that go hand in hand, and therefore draws consequences for the education and training of executives and junior staff alike.

The innovative degree program was developed at MCI. Based on technical and entrepreneurial know-how, practice-relevant questions and topics concerning the digital economy are discussed from a variety of perspectives, focusing on the needs of companies and organizations in order to impart and expand competencies concerning the law of the digital economy.

Topics covered are:

  • New technologies of the digital economy

  • Digital transformation and corporate strategies

  • Business models of the digital economy

  • Data protection

  • Sharing Economy & Business

  • E-commerce

  • Know-how Protection

  • New Work

  • Corporate Crises

  • Cyber Security & Criminal Compliance

  • Digital Sustainability & Legal Strategies

  • Digital Experiences

The program is concluded with an academically supervised Master thesis that deals with legal issues and problems in the digital economy. This way, accumulated knowledge can be transferred directly into the student's own professional life.

The didactic concept of the program takes into account the needs of part-time continuing education. In order to increase planning flexibility, courses are held only on Fridays and/or Saturdays. The extensive reduction of attendance dates (one attendance phase per semester) and the implementation of innovative concepts of online teaching allow studying parallel to one's own professional career. The intelligent mix of compact attendance phases at the MCI, which provide opportunities for professional and personal networking, and synchronous or asynchronous online phases makes it possible to organize studies largely independently of time and location.

Module Overview

Facts

Format Part-time, online-based
Design four modules with 26 courses over a total of 12 months
Attendance days 9 attendance days
Online 6 weeks online / 32 interactive online days
Online days Friday / Saturday
ECTS 60 ECTS
Language German
Tuiton fee EUR 17,550,-
Courses | Curriculum
ModulContentsECTS
Digital Technologies and Business

Digital Transformation & Corporate Strategies
Business Models of the Digitalized Economy
New Technologies
Economy & Society in the Digital Age
Innovation Management

10
Legal Framework of Digital Business

Digitalization strategies of the EU
European competition
Digital fundamental rights
Data protection
Data protection contracts in practice: Role allocation & third country transfer
Cyber Security & Criminal Compliance

13
Digital Regulation

Sharing Economy & Business
Digitalization and taxes
Know-how protection
New Work
E-Commerce
Digital Experiences
Digital Legal Management & Legal Tech
Digital Sustainability & Legal Strategies

17
FinTech + Specialization**

FinTech

Specialization
- Start-up law
- Organizational Development & Change (EN)
- Business  Psychology (EN)

** The selection of another module to complement Fin Tech is mandatory.

10
Master Thesis Scientific Research
Interdisciplinary Seminar
Oral Final Exam & Defensio
Master Thesis
10
Academic Board | Lecturers

Management

Program Director

Program Director

Mag. Susanne E. Herzog

MCI Head of Executive Education & Development, Innsbruck / Tyrol

Leitung

Academic Director

Dr. Lukas Staffler, PhD

Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Member (Prof. Avv.) of the RAK Bolzano

Academic Board

Rektor

Prof. Dr. Andreas Altmann

MCI Rector, Innsbruck / Tyrol

MCI Leiter Department & Studiengänge Management Recht und International Business & Law

RA FH-Prof. Dr. Ralf Geymayer

MCI Head of Department & Studies Management & Law and International Business & Law, Innsbruck / Tyrol

MCI Leiter Department & Studiengänge Management, Communication & IT

FH-Prof. Dr. Peter J. Mirski

MCI Head of Department & Studies Management, Communication & IT and Digital Business & Software Engineering, Innsbruck / Tyrol

Institutsleiter Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck / Tirol

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Werner Schroeder, LL.M.

Head of Institute for European and International Law, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck / Tyrol

RA Dr. Katharina Körber-Risak

RA Dr. Katharina Körber-Risak

Company Owner KÖRBER-RISAK Rechtsanwalts GmbH, Vienna / Austria, Trend-Anwaltsranking 2020: KÖRBER-RISAK among the top in the field of employment law

MCI Leiter des Hochschul-Kollegiums und Hochschullektor

RA Univ.-Prof. FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Franz Pegger

MCI Head of the Academic Council / Law firm Greiter-Pegger-Kofler & Partner, Innsbruck / Tyrol

Time Model
  • The postgraduate Master degree program LL.M. Digital Business & Tech Law takes one year and can be studied part-time

  • Attendance days friday / saturday

  • Online days friday / saturday

  • Online weeks including MCI Webinars

  • Detailed schedule on request

Didactics

An intelligent mix of online phases, attendance modules and electronic media links location-independent studies with personal interaction between lecturers and students. The didactic concept thus differs fundamentally from typical distance-learning while meeting the highest standards.

Flexibility
  • Learning where you want (also on the go - mobile learning)

  • Learning when you can (in your time)

  • Saving travel times and costs

Learning Advantages
  • Individualized learning according to prior knowledge and goals

  • More interactive learning with active exchange, collaboration and networking

  • Development of digital skills

 Work - Life - Learn
  • Blended learning facilitates the combination of work, private life and further education

E-Campus

Through the personal and individualized learning environment at the MCI E-Campus, students receive daily updated messages, e-mails and all the information they need in order to concentrate on their studies. Tests and exercises to check personal learning progress as well as learning forums and moderated chats facilitate studying online.

Technical requirements for admission to the MCI E-Campus
  • PC / laptop (current standard)

  • Broadband Internet connection

  • Microphone and loudspeaker (headset)

  • Webcam

  • Printer

Software
  • MS Office / Open Office

  • Current web browser

  • (Free) software packages as announced at the beginning of the course

Learning Goals

In order to ensure the transfer of learning and to enable students to develop relevant competencies, MCI has defined clear cross-curricular learning goals. These describe, in detail, the knowledge and skills acquired by our graduates on completion of their studies at MCI.

Responsible Leadership

Inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals, our graduates demonstrate a commitment to ecologically sustainable, economically responsible, and socially equitable decision-making.

Academic Rigor

Our graduates can apply relevant theories and appropriate scientific methods in their field of work.

Blended Learning at MCI

In its organizational form as an online Master program, the MCI follows a blended learning concept that combines synchronous and asynchronous online phases with regular attendance phases.

Who is the program suitable for?

The Master program is geared towards graduates of legal and non-legal fields of study throughout the German-speaking world who are looking for a sound qualification in the field of digital business & tech law in their professional activities.

The target audience of the LL.M. program are professionals from the traditional legal professions such as lawyers, notaries, judges and aspirants to these professions, but also management consultants, in-house counsel, experts in legal departments and (junior) executives, who

  • provide legal support for the digital transformation of existing companies;

  • provide legal advice to new types of business models and companies in the new economy;

  • want to expand their competencies with digital skills and abilities;

  • want to significantly improve their positioning in the market through key competencies.

Admission

Applications for studies are accepted on an ongoing basis via our online application platform. In the interests of your further planning, we recommend that you submit your application early.

Applications for several degree programs at MCI in parallel are possible and welcome, as long as the motivation for the chosen studies can be conclusively demonstrated.

Dates & Deadlines

 Application Deadline

Date

Interview

 1

02.02.2025

 individual date

 2

06.04.2025

individual date

 3

18.05.2025

 individual date

 4

29.06.2025

 individual date

 5

31.08.2025

 individual date

Prerequisites

Generally, persons with the following are admitted to the program:

  • completed university studies in law

  • completed university studies in another field (such as economics or technology), provided that the applicant can prove sufficient relevant previous legal knowledge or is working in a relevant professional field

  • at least one year of professional experience

Admission Procedure

The admission procedure provides for the following elements:

Online application
The application must be submitted in the form of a standardized online-application accompanied by the required documents (curriculum vitae, essay on medium-term career goals). An academic degree and minimum three years of professional experience in a qualified position prior to commencement of the program (ideally, qualified professional activity during the MBA program itself) are required.

Personal interview
The interview gives applicants the opportunity to present themselves personally, to narrate their career history, to explain their motivation for applying to this program as well as to describe their medium-term professional goals.

Decision
An admissions committee decides on admission to the Master's program.

Career & Perspectives

With the focus of the Executive Master degree program placed on different facets of the digital economy, this enables participants to specialize their own legal expertise in a technical and business-oriented manner and makes them sought-after experts for clients and companies alike when it comes to legal support for business in the digital age.

A range of use can be found in traditional legal professions such as law firms or notaries' offices, but also in business consultancies and consulting in general as well as companies in industry, tourism, banking and financial services, IT and the internet.