6 ECTS credits
150 u studietijd

Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 4023539EER 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
Paul Quinn (titularis)
Onderdelen en contacturen
24 contacturen Hoorcollege
126 contacturen Zelfwerk en -studie
Inhoud

This course aims to create an in depth understanding and ability to apply knowledge concerning the ethical and legal issues surrounding the use of genetic data.

This is a dynamic area that is evolving with the rapidly growing use of genomic data in many domains in society. This course can be differentiated with ‘The Augmented Human’ because that course only explores one aspect of genetic science – gene therapy/editing. This course is focused on the use of genetic data in general – something of a far wider reach, and which is of high importance in a range of domains e.g. scientific research, criminal investigation, pharmaceutical research, insurance, employment, various consumer services and the participation of the citizen in science.

The course will be primarily legal and ethical in nature but given the contents will have a strong multidisciplinary character also. It will introduce the context of genomics and further develop and explore legal frameworks that may have been explored in other courses and apply them to the context that is the use of genetic data.

This course will also be of interest to non law students who may have an interest in the regulation of genomic data. This inlcudes medical students and students from the natual sciences.

Course Outline

The course will involve 10 lectures (each lasting three hourses). With each lecture students will recieve recommended readting material that they must read.

At the end of the course students will take part in a group debate session where they are expected to engage with key issues and using the knowledge they have developed express opinions during an interactive debate.

Studiemateriaal
Digitaal cursusmateriaal (Vereist) : Canvas
Bijkomende info

All lectures will be recorded and available for later access in order to aid students with revision purposes. 

A proficent level of writen and spoken English is necessary to engage with this course correctly.

Leerresultaten

General competences

  • Students will learn about how genetic information is used and generated. An appreciation of the phenomenon of genomics is necessary in order to understand why it raises so many serious ethical and legal questions. Students should be able to broadly outline how the process of genetic sequencing and analysis has evolved in recent decades.
  • Students will learn and be able to apply knowledge relating to various legal and ethical and frameworks relating to the use of genomic data. This includes but is not limited toareas such as privacy/data protection, human rights and anti-discrimination law. Whilst the focus of the course will be upon European law, illustrative examples using national  and international law will be used.
  • Students will be expected to apply the knowledge they have developed (from both lectures and recomended reading) to illustrative examples of the use of genomic data. In doing so they will have to explain their reasoning and outline how ethical and legal frameworks are likley to apply to illustrative examples.
  • Sutdents should be able to give opinions on key issues idneitified in this course. These opinions should be justified with knowledge generated during the lectures and from recomended reading material.
  • Students will also learn how to work in a focused and interdisciplinary manner. This will differ from other courses which offer a more doctrinal approach. Rather it will focus on the emergence of a new technological paradigm and require the students to consider various legal approaches that will apply to it. This will provide the students with skills in terms of an applied law approach, something that will be useful after study in practice or further research.

Beoordelingsinformatie

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

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Academische context

Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
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
Master in de rechten: Law and Technology