Outstanding students can apply to the SMU School of Law and also do a Double Degree in Information Systems Management

Intellectual property issues, service level agreements and contracts are an integral part of Business-IT. When companies purchase IT services from service providers, legal discussions and negotiations  related to IP, service levels and contract terms consume huge amounts of effort on both the end-user side and the service provider side.

Outstanding students who are admitted to SMU School of Law can also do a double degree in Information Systems Management.

People with this combination of Law and IT will be highly sought after. Afterall, you will be a lawyer. You will also be a Business-IT Professional who understands the technology aspects of IT, as well as the realities of using IT applications in the context of complicated business process settings.

For those students who are fortunate enough to gain admittance into SMU School of Law, consider the power of doing a double degree in Law and Information Systems Management. SIS:  Beyond IT.

Below is an excerpt of SMU President Howard Hunter's announcement on the launch of SMU School of Law. Also see the full announcement and press release.

Professor Howard Hunter, President of Singapore Mangement University, announces the launch of SMU School of Law on 05 January 2007.

"...The new School of Law, which will add diversity and competition in the provision of legal education, sets itself apart in being the first in Singapore to introduce a new contextualized teaching of law to produce lawyers ready for corporate and commercial practice. SMU will leverage on its existing strengths in business and finance to produce law graduates who have a broad-based understanding of the real world and who have contextualized and practice-relevant legal knowledge and expertise.

The new School of Law will offer a four-year single law degree (LLB) and a five-year double degree programme which allows students to combine law with one of the five existing degrees offered by SMU. The curriculum stands apart in several ways. SMU law undergraduates will take a suite of compulsory core law courses which will provide a strong grounding in the essential principles of law; a selection of law electives which trains them in more specialized areas of law for corporate and commercial practice; as well as a compulsory non-law component that gives a holistic understanding of the business context and environment within which law functions. They are also required to spend a 10-week internship with a law firm or government legal agency..." more