Master in Law, Governance & Technology
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State-recognised Master’s degree, in agreement with Toulouse Capitole University
The Master in Law, Governance and Technology prepares students to become involved in the governance of digital technologies in companies, public institutions or any sector of social life. Thanks to the combination of a solid legal training based on the development of skills in technology, human sciences and project development, students will then be capable of responding thoughtfully to the challenges of the digital transition.
This programme trains agile lawyers, capable of adapting, anticipating and creating the digital society of tomorrow, in a pragmatic, responsible and imaginative way.
Training location : Issy-les-Moulineaux Campus
Degree requirements
- Students who have a completed a Bachelor’s degree in law or a Master’s degree in law or an equivalent course.
Application for international students:
– CV, cover letter and academic transcript
Optional: recommendation letter (max. 2) and proof of English language proficiency
Objectives
Master innovative regulatory instruments developed in response to the rapid growth of digital technologies
Critically analyse the global normative challenges of the digital transition
Identify challenges and opportunities across different industries, geographical areas and jurisdictions
Use advanced research methods in order to answer complex problems in situations of uncertainty
Design innovative, original and responsible solutions
Collaborate and develop projects with different actors and expertise
Anticipate changes in legal practices and their effects
Programme highlights
Educational
- An international programme : Masters 1 bilingual in English and Masters 2 100% taught in English
- Courses taught by international experts and digital experts
- An interdisciplinary approach to the human sciences to understand the complexity of the challenges of the digital transition
- Elective modules to explore and specialise in the desired skills
- A pragmatic approach linking theory and practice
- A variety of experiential teaching formats in order to encourage autonomy and creativity: group projects, studio, incubator, hackaton, seminars and workshops
Professional
- Development of technological and digital skills in order to lead digital transformation projects in both private and public sectors
- Acquisition of business skills and professional development workshops on the transformation of the legal profession
- Experimentation with project management and entrepreneurial innovation through the creation of start-ups in partnership with the FLD Incubator.
- An internship between the Masters 1 and Masters 2 to explore sector-specific issues
- A privileged relationship with an international network of academics and professionals from the public and private sectors
- Possibility of doing a semester abroad in on of our partner universities
- A solid training in research leading to a PhD in France or abroad
- Individual support by our Career Center
Master 1
60 ECTS credits – 400h
MODULE FONDAMENTAL – 120H
+ Droit & gouvernance globale
+ Human Rights & digital technologies
+ Droit européen du numérique
+ État, administration & numérique
+ Justice digitale & règlement des différends
+ Law, Business & Digital Technology
MODULE EXPLORATION (3 seminars to choose from) – 100H
+ Enjeux internationaux du numérique
+ Internet & Media Law
+ Technologies & responsabilités
+ Cybersecurity & Cybercrime
+ Intellectual Property Law
+ Enjeux contemporains de philosophie du droit
+ Digital Humanities
+ Smart cities, urbanism & digital tech
+ Droit, santé & numérique
MODULE TECHNOLOGIE – 70H
+ Culture numérique & technologique
+ Empirical Skills Workshop – Quantitative Tools
+ Digital Project – Projet collectif en droit & technologies digitales
+ Digital Skills Experiential Workshop
+ Studio Lab Legaltech & Design
MODULE PROFESSIONNALISATION – 50H
+ Legal Writing
+ Transformations des métiers du droit et Prospective Juridique
+ Professional Skills Workshop – Digital Lawyer
+ Studio Lab Politiques publiques & Numérique
+ Stage obligatoire de 2 mois minimum (entre mai et septembre)
MODULE ACCOMPAGNEMENT DES COMPÉTENCES TRANSVERSALES (ACT) – 60H
+ Accompagnement des Compétences Transversales
+ Grand Oral Compétences transversales
Master 2
60 ECTS credits – 400h
CORE MODULE – 120H
+ Technology Law & Governance
+ Law & Innovation
+ Global Data Law & AI
+ Law, Technology & Society
+ Blockchain, Emerging Techologies and Law
+ Digital Economy
SPECIALIZATION MODULE – THEMATIC ADVANCED SEMINAR – 100H
3 choices possible
+ Fashion Law & Creative Industries
+ Environmental Governance & Technology
+ Compliance, Risk & Technology
+ Global Antitrust Law & Technology
+ Law & Biotechnologies
3 choices possible
+ Law, Security, Technology
+ Finance, Law & Technology
+ Space Law
+ Law, Art & Digital Technology
EXPLORATION MODULE – 55H
+ History & Philosophy of Technology
+ Legal Ideas & Complexity
+ Science, Technology & Expertise
+ Experiential Studio in Law &Tech
TECHNOLOGY MODULE – 40H
+ Introduction to Computer Science
+ Digital Skills Workshop
+ Introduction to Data Science & Machine Learning
+ Legal Analytics Studio Lab
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS MODULE – 50H
+ Business Skills & Accounting
+ Digital Project – Start Up Studio Incubator
+ Corporate Legal Operations
+ Digital Project – Design Studio (possible validation by internship
after validation of all other credits )
+ Writing & Research Workshop
PROJECT MODULE – 60H
+ Research Proposal or Start Up Proposal
+ Project Development
+ Final Research Output Disseration or Start Up
+ Transveral Skills Final Presentation (Grand Oral)
+ Project Development
Director
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Delphine DOGOT
Associate Professor of Law Director of the Master in Law, Governance & Technology and of the Graduate Diploma in Law and Digital Technologies
Delphine DOGOT
Associate Professor of Law
Director of the Master in Law, Governance & Technology and of the Graduate Diploma in Law and Digital Technologies
Delphine Dogot is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law. She researches and teaches in the areas of law and technology, international law and legal philosophy, in particular in relation to global governance, risk and security.
She is the Director of LeStudio, a collaborative and creative digital/law lab and the Academic Director of the Master in Law, Governance & Technology and Winter & Summer and Graduate Diploma in Law and Digital Technologies.
Before joining the Faculty of Law, Delphine Dogot was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Law Department of HEC Paris, an OXPO Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, a Fellow at Sciences Po Law School and a researcher the Perelman Centre for Legal Philosophy at ULB where she is an affiliate researcher.
She is regularly invited to teach at Sciences Po Paris, Université Aix-Marseille, HEC Paris, Université Panthéon Assas, Universidad des Los Andes, Université Libre de Bruxelles et Universidad UNISINOS Porto Alegre.
Trained in law and philosophy, Delphine Dogot holds a Ph.D. in Law from Sciences Po Law School, Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Law from Université Panthéon Sorbonne, an M.A in Sociology and B.A. in Philosophy from Université Paris Sorbonne.
Issy-les-Moulineaux Campus
Academic team
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Mónica ARANGO OLAYA
DPhil in Law Candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University
Mónica ARANGO OLAYA
DPhil in Law Candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University
Mónica Arango Olaya is a DPhil in Law Candidate at the Faculty of Law at Oxford University. Her research focuses on sexual harassment in the workplace and the #MeToo movement. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from Los Andes University in Colombia and an LL.M. from Harvard University. She is a Podcaster for the Oxford Human Rights Hub. She was a Graduate Research Resident at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights between 2020 and 2022 and the Editor of Borderlands section of Frontiers of Social Legal Studies blog 2021- 2022.
Before going to Oxford she was Deputy Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Mónica has taught as a Lecturer Public Interest Law Procedure at the Faculty of Law at Los Andes University in Colombia as well as Access to Justice for Women and International Law at FLACSO Argentina. She has also tutored Public International Law, Human Rights and Law and Society at Oxford University.
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Othmane BENLAFKIH
Associate at Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes
Othmane BENLAFKIH
Associate at Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes
Othmane Benlafkih is an associate at Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes, specializing in commercial and investment arbitration. He previously served as Counsel (Team Supervisor) at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).
He completed an LL.M. at Harvard Law School, earning distinction as a Dean’s Scholar, and an LL.B. at the University of Hong Kong as a Lee Shau Kee Scholar. Othmane has been contributing his expertise as a teacher and expert for the Commercial Law Development Program of the U.S. Department of Commerce since 2019. He is qualified in New York.
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Alejandra AZUERO-QUIJANO
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore
Alejandra AZUERO-QUIJANO
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore
Alejandra Azuero-Quijano is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore. She works at the intersection of law and anthropology. Her research examines the role of legal knowledge in political transition. Her first book manuscript, Redesigning Crime, investigates the relation between design, criminal liability, and forensics. Her current book project, Forensics of Finance, examines the role of financial forensic expertise in shaping Colombia’s most recent political transition. Azuero-Quijano holds an SJD from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her academic writing is published in Grey Room and PoLAR. Her essays and poetry have appeared in AlJazeera and New American Writing, among others.
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Alexandre DUMERY
Director of the Business Law and Company Management Degree
Alexandre DUMERY
Director of the Business Law and Company Management Degree
Alexandre DUMERY is a doctor in private law and criminal sciences from the University of Aix-Marseille III (Aix-Marseille University) after having defended a thesis in 2007 on the victim’s fault in civil liability law. He has been a permanent lecturer at the faculty since 2009, director since 2014 of the Master 1 in business law in work-study program and of the Master 2 in business law and corporate risk management in a work-study program (BLCRM) in the Issy-les-Moulineaux Campus and member of C3RD. He teaches civil law (law of obligations) and commercial law (law of companies in difficulty). His areas of research are mainly civil liability law, in particular compensation for damage caused by new forms of mobility and the law of companies in difficulty. At the same time, he is preparing his HDR within the LARJ (EA 3603) of the Littoral-Côte d´Opale University.
FLD Issy-les-Moulineaux Campus
Mail: alexandre.dumery@univ-catholille.fr
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Arthur DYEVRE
Professor at KU Leuven
Arthur DYEVRE
Professor at KU Leuven
Arthur Dyevre is a professor at KU Leuven, where he leads the Centre for Empirical Jurisprudence. He pursues a multidisciplinary research program on judicial institutions, legal integration in Europe, and automated analysis of legal texts. His work has been published in notable journals, including the American Journal of Comparative Law, Artificial Intelligence and Law, European Journal of Law & Economics, European Union Politics, International Review of Law & Economics, Journal of European Public Policy, The Review of International Organizations, and Leiden Journal of International Law.
He has taught judicial decision analysis, legal AI, legal theory, and empirical legal methods at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Toulouse-Capitole, the Brussels School of Competition, Venice International University, and the Catholic University of Lille. He is the author of “The Future of Legal Theory and the Law School of the Future” (Intersentia, 2015) and “Constitutional Reasoning in Comparative Perspective” (with András Jakab and Giulio Itzkovich, Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Arthur Dyevre has organized the first two CELS-Europe conferences (2016 and 2018) and is a pioneer of empirical legal research in Europe. He led the ERC EUTHORITY project (www.euthority.eu) and is currently working on the cognitive style of judges in comparative law (COMPASS Project).
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Charlotte EMIN
Référendaire at the General Court of the European Union
Charlotte EMIN
Référendaire at the General Court of the European Union
Charlotte Emin specialises in European competition law and is a member of the Paris and New York bars.
After studying at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris), she obtained her law degrees from the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris II Panthéon-Assas Universities, as well as an LL.M. from Harvard Law School.
She began her career in one of the biggest US business law firm in Brussels, where she defended cases at the European Commission and represented Google in several jurisdictions.
Since 2016, she has been a legal secretary at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg, where she deals with competition and state aid cases.
She has published several articles in specialist journals and magazines on European competition law, including on interim measures in the antitrust field.
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Katherine FALLAH
Barrister and legal scholar
Katherine FALLAH
Barrister and legal scholar
Dr Katherine Fallah is a barrister and legal scholar based in Australia. At the Sydney bar, she maintains a mixed practice with a focus on human rights, discrimination, international law, inquests and appellate crime. As a legal scholar she specialises in public international law and criminal law. Her research is principally concerned with the global regulation and administration of violence, and she has particular expertise in the law relating to mercenaries and private military contractors. In addition to her appointment as a visiting professor at l’Université catholique de Lille, she lectures in international humanitarian law and international criminal law at the Australian National University.
Katherine holds a PhD in international law from the University of Sydney, and before her call to the bar was a member of Faculty at Sydney Law School and UTS. She has held visiting fellowships and doctoral research positions at Harvard Law School, the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, the Paris Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, and the European University Institute, Florence. Her earlier professional appointments include Prosecution Officer at the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and Research Associate to the Judges of the Federal Court of Australia.
Katherine is the recipient of several international prizes including the Prix Jean-Pictet for International Humanitarian Law and the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender for Human Rights, and in 2019 she was the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow with the ARC Laureate Program in International Law at Melbourne Law School.
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Nathan GENICOT
Researcher at the Perelman Center for Legal Philosophy (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB)
Nathan GENICOT
Researcher at the Perelman Center for Legal Philosophy (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB)
Nathan Genicot is a researcher at the Perelman Center for Legal Philosophy (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB). His research focuses on the transformations that law and regulatory techniques are undergoing as a result of the digitization and globalization of our societies. In particular, he studies profiling and rating systems and their history. In addition to being a Visiting Professor at the Université Catholique de Lille, he teaches at the ULB, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.
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Iga KUROWSKA
PhD
Iga KUROWSKA
PhD
Iga Kurowska holds a doctorate in law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the Head of Innovation at the Karnov Group (Southern Region), Europe’s leading provider of legal information and software. Former founder of a legaltech start-up, she regularly lectures students and professionals on how innovation can improve the practice of law.
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Zacharie LAÏK
Lawyer and founder of goodlegal.fr
Zacharie LAÏK
Lawyer and founder of goodlegal.fr
Zacharie Laïk is a member of the New York Bar and holds a « Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat » (CAPA). He has been a lecturer at the Université Catholique de Lille since 2022. He also holds an LL.M. from the Northwestern University and a Master’s degree in Business Law from the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. His keen interest in the development of new technologies in the legal field has led him to devote himself to integrating artificial intelligence into the teaching of law. Founder of goodlegal.fr, he is developing a platform that facilitates access to AI-assisted legal information, benefiting a growing community of over 20,000 law professionals and students. His work, between law and technology, aims to experiment the use of artificial intelligence to modernise legal working methods.
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Sonia LE GOURIELLEC
Lecturer in Political Sciences
Sonia LE GOURIELLEC
Lecturer in Political Sciences
Sonia Le Gouriellec holds a PhD in Political Science (International Relations) and is a lecturer at the Catholic University of Lille (Faculty of Law). She was previously a researcher at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military Academy (IRSEM) of the French Ministry of Defence, in charge of sub-Saharan Africa. She teaches at Sciences Po Paris (Reims campus, Eurafrique programme) and is also an associate researcher at the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’étude du politique Hannah Arendt (LIPHA) – Université Paris-Est. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for War and Strategy Studies and co-leader of the “Comparative Extra-Western Approaches” group.
In 2017, she coordinated a book “Is our world more dangerous?” (Armand Colin) gathering about twenty contributions. A specialist in security studies, her work focuses on peace and security issues in Africa, particularly in the Horn of Africa, foreign policies and strategies of small states. In March 2020, she published the book “Djibouti: la diplomatie de géant d’un petit Etat” (Presses universitaires du Septentrion). She has published in International Affairs, International Studies, Contemporary Africa, etc.
She runs the blog “https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjfrJm–_brAhVDJBoKHTcrB_0QFjAAegQIARAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoodmorningafrika.blogspot.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw2iksinTDC1KRLuyZXHIr7B”>Good Morning Afrika” and hosts the @MorningAfrika page on Twitter.
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Eric SEASSAUD
Lawyer of the Paris Bar and Partner at Squair
Eric SEASSAUD
Lawyer of the Paris Bar and Partner at Squair
Lawyer of the Paris Bar and a partner at Squair, Eric Seassaud specialises in ethics and compliance, international arbitration, international contracts, major industrial and construction projects (financing, construction contracts, operation and maintenance contracts, joint ventures, consortium contracts, sureties and guarantees, export financing, etc.) and contract and claims management.
Prior to joining Squair, Eric held a number of legal director positions in listed groups, including Director of Legal and Contracts at VINCI Construction Grands Projets and ethics coordinator for the entities in VINCI Construction’s Major Projects Division (2018-2021), Director of Legal Ethics and Compliance at the Engie Group (2011-18), Director of Contract Management and Arbitration at SUEZ (formerly Degrémont – 2009-2011), and Deputy Legal Director for Major Projects at SUEZ (formerly Degrémont – 2003-2009).
Eric is also heavily involved in a number of professional associations: Vice-President and co-founder of the French Contract Management Association (AFCM), Chairman of the AFNOR French Technical Committee on “Compliance and Governance of Organisations – ISO TC 309” and French Foreign Trade Advisor.
Eric holds a doctorate in law, a specialised master’s degree in international business law and management from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP), a postgraduate diploma in public business law and a diploma from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence.
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Pauline TROUILLARD
Researcher in Media Law in the European Union and American law
Pauline TROUILLARD
Researcher in Media Law in the European Union and American law
Pauline Trouillard is a researcher in Media Law in the European Union and American law.
She holds a PhD in Comparative Public Law from Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. Her thesis focused on public service broadcasting in the Member States of the European Union.
She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and Researcher in Residence at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Her current research focuses on the moderation of content on social networks in American and European law, and on the business model of platforms.
Jobs & careers
- Specialised lawyer
- Corporate Legal Operations
- Tech Entreprenuership – Start ups.
- Legal Developer
- Legaltech & Legal analytics
- Data protection officer
- Cybersecurity Legal counsel
- Digital Legal Officer
- Crypto – Web 3 governance & regulatory
- Patents
- Compliance
- Digital Public Affairs
- International and national administrations
- NGO and think tanks – digital rights & policy
- Legal Designer
- Research & academia (law, social sciences)
The FLD experience
Today, it is more necessary than ever to think transversally about the challenges and opportunities created by the digital transition. Lawyers are at the very heart of this transformation: their expertise as architects of society enables them not only to respond to these new emergencies but also, more ambitiously, to imagine the world of tomorrow. The Master's degree in Law, Governance & Digital was created to train creative and open-minded lawyers who are able to take into account the interactions between law, technology and society to imagine the solutions of tomorrow at the global level``.
Delphine DOGOT, Head of programme