2017-2018 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Law and Information Security Policy (Carnegie Mellon), JD/MSISPM
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Return to: Academic Programs Building on their longstanding and successful partnership, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Heinz College offer a joint degree program designed to train students for careers in which management, information security, and law overlap. This joint degree offering is particularly beneficial to many students’ careers because legal considerations affect many management and policy decisions, and the practice of law is enhanced by a clear understanding of the policy and security concerns facing the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Participants in the program will emerge with a broad knowledge of the fundamental intersections of law, government, privacy and information security, and management. The fields of cybersecurity, information privacy, intellectual property law, cybercrime, and other IT-related sectors are growing rapidly. There are many job opportunities in this emerging space. Many of those jobs have legal dimensions and will be filled by people with legal training. Graduates of the joint degree program will be better prepared to compete for those jobs and to succeed in them because of their broader, interdisciplinary training. Furthermore, the interdisciplinary nature of this program allows for practical skill sets to solve economic and social problems that require technological, managerial, and legal expertise.
The joint-degree program is designed to be completed in eight semesters over four academic years instead of the five years required if pursued separately. Students interested in the joint degree program can pursue both programs simultaneously. During the first year, students study at either the Heinz School or the School of Law, taking the standard first-year curriculum of the respective school. The second year involves full-time study at the other school. For the third and fourth years, students take courses at both schools. In order to graduate with both degrees, students have to fulfill both schools’ degree requirements.
Contact Information
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Office of Admissions
3900 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 648-1413
admitlaw@pitt.edu
Faculty Advisor
David Thaw
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
3900 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 648-7855
dbthaw@pitt.edu
School of Public Policy & Management at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-2164
(800) 977-3498
hnzadmit@andrew.cmu.edu
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