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FOR MORE INFORMATION:
PENN LAW
Amanda AronoffAssociate Director, Cross-Disciplinary Programs
PENN ENGINEERING (MSE PROGRAM)
Sonya GwakDirector of Graduate Admissions and Student Life
PENN ENGINEERING (MCIT PROGRAM)
Mike FelkerCIS Graduate Programs Coordinator
https://www.law.upenn.edu/academics/crossdisciplinary/jd-engineering/
ADMISSIONS
Students will apply independently to each degree through each school’s specified admission process. Penn Engineering and Penn Law will make independent judgments about each candidate. How to apply
Students must select the appropriate Engineering master’s degree program based on their education and experience. Applicants with the prerequisite Engineering background may apply for the MSE degree. Students with no prior educational background in Engineering and Computer Science may apply for the MCIT degree.
There are two methods of applying to the joint degree program:
• Students may apply to both schools during the same application cycle. Only students accepted independently by both schools will be admitted into the joint degree program. In general, joint degree candidates are expected to apply initially to Penn Law and to apply to Penn Engineering after they have been accepted by Penn Law.
• Students already enrolled at Penn Law or Penn Engineering may submit an application to the other program.
Students must take the LSAT for consideration as a Law candidate. The GRE is required for the application to Engineering.
FINANCIAL AID
Penn Law will charge students in the joint degree program an administrative fee to be determined annually, in consultation with Penn Engineering.
Penn Engineering “home school” tuition is paid during year two when the student is enrolled in the Engineering curriculum, and Law School “home school” tuition is paid during years one, three, and four. If a student takes courses outside of his or her current home school which cannot be counted toward that school’s degree, the home school may charge an additional fee to be determined annually.
Penn Law and the Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition have partnered to provide the CTIC Scholars Program, a competitive scholarship to be awarded to JD students pursuing a joint degree in law and technology. Up to three students per year will receive the scholarship, which provides up to $40,000 to help offset tuition expenses for the additional year of study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science. JD students interested in the Scholars Program apply during their 1L or 2L year by the designated deadline.
Financial aid decisions are made independently by each school. Financial aid decisions are typically made by the school to which tuition will be paid in that particular term. Please note Penn Engineering does not offer any financial aid for students pursuing the master’s degree.
THE LAW AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
ACADEMIC PROGRAM & DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Students pursuing one of our two joint-degree programs will typically spend their first year at the Law School and second at Penn Engineering. In years three and four, students will take classes in both schools and participate in a capstone course on Technology and Policy co-taught by faculty from both schools. At SEAS, the Master of Computing and Information Technology (MCIT) degree is ideal for those with no prior degree in engineering or computer science but who are interested in the practice of information technology. Students with qualifying undergraduate academic background and experience may pursue any Penn Engineering master’s degree.
To receive both degrees, students must complete the independent degree requirements of each program.
For Penn Engineering:
Joint degree students may count one Law course from an approved list toward the requirements for the Engineering master’s. More information is available online at http://www.seas.upenn.edu/prospective-students/graduate/programs/masters/index.php.
For Penn Law:
• Students must complete a minimum of 86 semester hours, 52 of which must be advanced credit completed in the second and third years of Law study.
• Students enrolled in the joint degree program are not eligible to participate in Study Abroad Programs.
• Students must also satisfy the pro bono requirement of the Public Service Program and fulfill their senior writing (through the Degree Synthesis Requirement) and professional responsibility requirements.
• Joint degree students may count two Engineering courses (from an approved list), taken during the second or third year of Law study, as six semester hours of advanced credit towards the JD requirement. These classes will count as two of the four courses that Law students generally may apply from outside of the Law School towards the JD degree.
All law students are also eligible to enroll in the Law School’s Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic.
The Law & Technology program expands opportunities for students while bringing together the intellectual and program resources at Penn, including:
• New student research fellowships, technology law-related moot courts, and technology-related summer public interest fellowships.
• The Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition
• The Detkin Intellectual Property & Technology Legal Clinic
• The Penn Biotech Group
• The Penn Intellectual Property Group
• The Penn Program on Regulation
• A pioneering Law & Technology seminar co-taught by Law and Engineering faculty, bringing law and engineering students together in the same classroom.
Penn is uniquely positioned among top research universities to develop a cutting-edge program on technology and the law. Committed to “integrating knowledge,” the University stresses interdisciplinary education, and both the Law School and Penn Engineering previously have developed pioneering programs with other schools.
At a time when debates over technology policy are
as significant as they are complex, the University of
Pennsylvania Law School and School of Engineering
and Applied Science (SEAS) have launched an
innovative program to produce market-ready
professionals ideally prepared to work in fields at the
intersection of law and technology.
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“Technology law is not just about the law anymore. It’s also about economics; it’s also about engineering; it’s also about culture. And even within the law there are a whole variety of areas of law that play important roles, including the First Amendment, antitrust perspective, intellectual property perspective, and increasingly I’m discovering that there’s a contract theory perspective about what kinds of arrangements you can make and how the technological architecture has to be designed to support them.”
Christopher YooJohn H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science; Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition
“The big defining characteristic is the fact that Penn Law really pushes the interdisciplinary and the cross-disciplinary offerings that it has. It seems to be infused in the Penn Law culture — the notion that in order to be a successful, practicing attorney now you have to know fields beyond law.”
Lucas Tejwani JD/MCIT’17
Law & technology courses offered at Penn Law (JD matriculants may take up to four electives) include (partial listing):
Copyright
Cybercrime
Intellectual Property & Corporate Lawyering
Patent Law
Privacy Law
Regulatory Law & Policy
Technology & Policy
Trademarks
