The Law School has just launched the trial module of what will next year become a full Masters course available via the information superhighway. Appropriately, the first Law School course to be available through electronic distance learning is the Master of Law in Information Technology . The LLM, set-up by Dr Ian Lloyd , has been running conventionally for four years and attracts mainly lawyers who want to improve their knowledge of this increasingly important area of law as well as computer scientists who want to learn more about the law relating to their field. The first computer-based module, compiled by lecturer Moira Simpson , consists of a database of over 25 megabytes of text drawn from books, articles and case reports. These materials, which are stored on an Apple Mac which acts as the server, can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
Students can either download to their own computer or browse at any convenient time.
Last month, the required software and passwords was dispatched to the first cohort of 15 students who are based as far afield as Uganda.