The GPLLM in Innovation, Law and Technology investigates the interaction of technologies and the legal frameworks that address them. Students grapple with the challenges posed by ever-accelerating technological advances by examining these problems through a legal lens. Taught by leading academics and practitioners, students will explore the systems, structures and characteristics of the legal system, and investigate how they relate to challenges posed by technology in rapid change. Classes are comprised of diverse professionals from the fields of medicine, financial services, compliance, IT, law, and many others.
Innovation, Law and Technology Concentration in Numbers
16 Years of work experience 11 Industries represented 87% New to Law 61% Hold a graduate degee
2024 - 2025 Class ProfileProgram Length and Structure
Students complete ten courses over one-year (full-time) or two years (part-time). The program begins each September with students enrolled in fall, winter, and summer terms. Classes are held in-person at our downtown Toronto campus on alternating Friday evenings and Saturdays, allowing students to balance their professional responsibilities while positioning themselves for career advancement.
Emilio Goya Mosquera, CEO & Managing Partner at Goya GlobalThe GPLLM's reputable faculty members and accomplished alums have positively impacted my career globally. It enhanced my entrepreneurial journey and allowed me to continue helping businesses regarding their organizational plans to advance strategy.
Maureen Barclay, Senior Commercial DirectorThe GPLLM program has helped me gain the knowledge and resources to better understand legal obligations and the associated risk, potential benefits and consequences of certain actions, to make more informed and balanced business decisions.”
Wanessa Oliveira, Corporate Law ClerkThe program offers invaluable perspectives on the legal aspects of the current and most relevant challenges affecting business, while also providing an exceptional opportunity to network with classmates from diverse backgrounds who are leaders in their own fields.”
Curriculum
The GPLLM curriculum is carefully curated in order to provide students with exposure to the legal issues and problems that are foundational, and also most timely and relevant. Students will gain an understanding of key legal concepts and tools, and have the opportunity to apply them to real-world problems, including ones they confront in their own workplaces. Primarily through independent activities, but also in teams, students acquire skills and knowledge that will immediately begin to inform how they approach problems and challenges. The skills involved in “thinking like a lawyer” are new, and, we are told, transformative.
The GPLLM program offers students both cohesiveness and flexibility in course selection. The program consists of approximately 40 courses. Each concentration is tied together by its own mandatory course, held on Friday evenings in the fall term. Students are required to take at least five (5) courses within their concentration. The remainder of their courses can be selected from any of the concentrations, providing students with the ability to curate a program of study that reflects their unique interests.
Students have found that there is considerable synergy between, for example, courses in the Business Concentration and in the Innovation, Law and Technology space, and they have found the ability to take courses in multiple concentrations to be an impactful aspect of the program.
Opportunity
The GPLLM in Innovation, Law and Technology positions professionals in medicine, financial services, compliance, IT, and other fields to navigate the legal challenges associated with rapid technology innovation.
Focus
Explore the broad legal implications of the newest innovations and disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence and digital privacy.
In addition, you'll have options for studying the law's relation to cybersecurity and data protection in a global information economy, privacy, intellectual property, innovation financing, and more.
Outcome
You'll gain rigorous legal perspectives on addressing real-world workplace problems. Equip yourself with a new fluency for understanding the nuances of legal documents to interact productively with legal representatives.