Introduction to Technology Law (5 ECTS)

Lecturer(s): Unknown

When: Block 4

Brief course description:
Technology law has developed in response to rapid technological and social change from a patchwork of applications of ordinary rules, as for example: of contract, criminal, and commercial law, to cyberspace and the digitisation and virtualisation of everyday activities. This course sets the scene and introduces the students to the immense impact that technology and especially computers and the Internet have on substantive law.

The course will include the following topics:
- Law and Technology
- Governance in the digital environment
- Cyber-speech and social networking
- IP and the information society
- Criminal activity in the digital society
- e-Commerce
- Privacy and Data protection

Teaching method: Lectures, working groups (tutorials).

Assessment: Assessment is by means of a written exam (essay questions).

*Official course information and schedules during the academic year can be found in Ocasys.