Students Paul McAdams, Ethan Ice and Theodore Hosemann attending the eLaw Summer Institute

At a reception, sponsored by the Southern Law Association and the UCC Faculty of Law, the President of the Southern Law Association, Mr. Pat Mullins, welcomed the students to Cork and wished them well in their studies. The attendance at the reception included a number of High Court judges, as well as members of the local judiciary, the legal profession and the Law Faculty.

The Institute is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), and, therefore, the program must adhere to various ABA standards. For instance, students attend three 70-minute classes per day starting at 9am and finishing at 2pm. This also means that students from the United States can use the credits accumulated from eLSI to count towards their law degree in their home institution and hence graduate faster. All participants on the program receive a certificate of participation and for Irish and other non-US students, eLSI provides a taste of law school 'American-style.'

The Institute focuses on the emerging policy and law of the information age and is designed to be a critical learning experience for the lawyer of the 21st century. Topics include: regulation of the internet and cyber crime; data protection; online contracting; and the legal control of blogs, spam and phishing.

As well as addressing issues of law and policy of the information age, the Institute is at the forefront in using information technology in the delivery of its courses: Students are provided with CDs of reading materials in advance of classes. The Institute also includes asynchronous teaching modules whereby individual classes are pre-recorded and delivered on DVD for viewing on computer or Video iPod.

Given Ireland's position as a key player in the Information Technology sector, the Law Faculty at UCC has developed considerable research and teaching expertise in the fields of e-Law and as well has hosting the e-Law Summer institute offers an LLM (Masters Degree) in eLaw.

Franklin Pierce Law Center, a global leader in intellectual property law and the law of commerce and technology, co-sponsors eLSI, as well as summer programs in China, Washington, D.C. and at its Concord, NH campus. The law school offers JD, Master's and LLM degrees.