6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4023523EER for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Faculty
Faculty of Law and Criminology
Department
Metajuridica
Educational team
Gianclaudio Malgieri (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
24 contact hours Lecture
126 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This “capita selecta” course aims at analysing in detail the new challenges for legal practitioners, consultants and policymakers related to online compliance and the regulation of digital market and the algorithmic-driven environment. The rise of the digital market has profoundly questioned the traditional rules of civil law and business law. There is a web of EU laws, regulations and legislative proposals about the digital market that needs to be attentively analysed and interconnected. The course will be appealing to students who may go on to become legal experts in various domains, consultants and lawyers dealing with ICT Law and digital issues, but also legal experts interested in the most recent EU reforms proposals in the field of technological innovation. This course will help in forming the lawyer of tomorrow or the ‘lawyer 2.0’, i.e. a professional equipped to handle professional activity in the legal sector in the digital age.

The course addresses a plurality of complimentary areas, like: e- commerce, digital consumer protection, regulation of online behavioural advertising, digital content and digital service regulations, digital contracts, online harms, intellectual property in the digital age (with particular attention to digital copyright, software protection and online branding protection), automated cars regulations, creditworthiness assessment and online banking. In is of an in-depth nature and will build upon knowledge that students have developed in other pillars of the legal education. The course will devote particular attention to the intersections among these different areas and how the digital innovation has profoundly changed the traditional areas of private and business law (civil liability, contract law, consumer protection law, road regulation, banking regulations, etc.).

Course material
Course text (Required) : syllabus and academic articles., Canvas
Additional info

The Course Material will be based on a Syllabus, some open-access chapters (in particular from Mireille Hildebrandt, Law for Computer Scientists and other Folks, OUP 2020) and some academic articles. In addition, for each lessons, some cases will be proposed. The text of EU laws analysed in each lesson will be part of course material. The course will be taught using innovative methods including blended learning.

Learning Outcomes

General competences

The course has the following main learning objectives:

  • Understanding the main challenges of Digital Law;
  • Analysing the legal issues of new Internet-based business models;
  • Applying knowledge on consumer law, online harms prevention, civil liability and protection of intangible goods to specific practical examples;
  • Understanding and critically analyse the new EU policy challenges and reform in the field of technology;
  • Reconceptualizing traditional legal issues by taking into account of their transformation in the digital world.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Oral Exam with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Other Exam with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Students are supposed to write a structured report and analysis of each given lecture. Which they have to discuss on the oral exam.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Laws: Civil and Procedural Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminology (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Economic Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Tax Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: International and European Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Public Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Social Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Criminal Law (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Laws: Law and Technology (only offered in Dutch)