In an initiative that demonstrates Boston College Law School’s commitment to leading legal education’s response to technological advances, a new graduate degree program will launch in the fall of 2025.
The Master of Legal Studies in Cybersecurity, Risk, and Governance reshapes a program that has been operating at BC’s Woods School of Advancing Studies since 2015. “This change results from a recent University review process, which considered the current program’s strong curriculum, connection to law and regulation, and many prospective synergies with existing juris doctor and master of laws programs at BC Law,” said Dean Odette Lienau.
It will be led by Kevin Powers, who is founder and director of the current Woods cybersecurity program, and has taught at BC Law. His background includes twenty-five years of combined cybersecurity, data privacy, business, law enforcement, military, and national security experience.
The growing overlap between cybersecurity and law has generated high demand for professionals with a legal and regulatory understanding of cybersecurity and adjacent fields such as data privacy and artificial intelligence. Dean Lienau said the MLS in Cybersecurity, Risk, and Governance received formal acquiescence from the American Bar Association last June.