6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4023296EER voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een verdiepend master niveau.

Semester
1e semester
Inschrijving onder examencontract
Mogelijk
Beoordelingsvoet
Beoordeling (0 tot 20)
2e zittijd mogelijk
Ja
Onderwijstaal
Engels
Faculteit
Faculteit Recht en Criminologie
Verantwoordelijke vakgroep
Metajuridica
Onderwijsteam
Gloria Gonzalez Fuster (titularis)
Onderdelen en contacturen
0 contacturen Exam
36 contacturen Lecture
100 contacturen Self study
Inhoud

Privacy and data protection law are increasingly crucial in our data-driven societies. Understanding the basic notions and premises in which they are grounded is not only a major asset for all law students, but also an open door to multiple professional and academic endeavours, ranging from working as a data protection officer (DPO) to being able to think of future-proof legal solutions to reconcile the market’s and public authorities’ appetite for personal data with individual rights and freedoms, from advising to private companies, to ensuring compliance in the public sector.

The course Privacy and Data Protection Law, to be taught in English, will introduce students to the core legal issues in this area in a way that allows them to better understand both current compliance requirements and upcoming privacy and data protection legal challenges. It will provide them with a general view of different global and regional approaches to privacy law, focusing on the European Union (EU) legal framework. The study of EU law will be developed through the analysis of both legislation and relevant case-law.

 

The course will offer students all basic necessary knowledge to be introduced to privacy and data protection law and familiarise them with all its multiple and distinct dimensions, from the prisms of EU law and taking into account the global context in which EU law operates. 

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Handboek over Europese gegevensbeschermingswetgeving, 2018
Bijkomende info

All students will be given the opportunity to learn about privacy and data protection law by applying it in practical exercises.

Lectures might be followed either in the classroom or remotely.

Leerresultaten

Algemene competenties

The course aims to equip students with:

  • Fundamental knowledge on international and European privacy and data protection law;
  • An understanding of the significance of privacy and data protection from an historical perspective, but also socially and politically, in relation to the functioning of constitutional democratic states, and in light of current and upcoming technological developments;
  • A comparative overview of global and regional approaches, encompassing their convergence and divergences between them, and their impact on, and challenges for, international data flows:
  • A comprehensive perception of the way in which privacy and data protection are relevant for a variety of industrial sectors and policy areas;
  • A clear picture of the EU legal framework on privacy and data protection law;
  • A detailed grasp of the roles, responsibilities and rights of the major actors of data protection law: data controllers and processors, data subjects, and Data Protection Authorities (DPAS), as well as the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB);
  • Knowledge on the prerequisites, tasks and functions of Data Protection Officers (DPOs);
  • The capacity to argue and counter-argue in a solid way in relation to the way in which privacy and data protection intersect with other rights and interests, and contextualise policy making in this field;
  • A vision of future privacy and data protection law challenges in an increasingly data-driven changing world;
  • Better skills to become future-proof lawyers and legal scholars, but also citizens.

Beoordelingsinformatie

De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer

Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:

  • Examen Schriftelijk met een wegingsfactor 100 en aldus 100% van het totale eindcijfer.

Aanvullende info mbt evaluatie

The final evaluation shall consist of a written exam, in which will be combined short, to-the-point questions (primarily assessing knowledge and clarity of exposition) and an essay-like open question (primarily assessing the capacity to critically connect learnt input, and build upon such knowledge to construct a solid argumentation). In the essay-like open question, students will also have the opportunity to build on the knowledge gathered during the practical exercises. 

Toegestane onvoldoende
Kijk in het aanvullend OER van je faculteit na of een toegestane onvoldoende mogelijk is voor dit opleidingsonderdeel.

Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master in de rechten: Dual Master in Comparative Corporate and Financial Law
Master in de rechten: burgerlijk en procesrecht
Master in de rechten: criminologie
Master in de rechten: economisch recht
Master in de rechten: fiscaal recht
Master in de rechten: internationaal en Europees recht
Master in de rechten: publiek recht
Master in de rechten: sociaal recht
Master in de rechten: strafrecht
Educatieve master in de maatschappijwetenschappen: rechten (90 ECTS, Etterbeek)