6 ECTS credits
168 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 1024232ANR voor alle studenten in het 1e semester met een inleidend bachelor niveau.
This course aims to provide computer scientists and others involved in AI research design with an in-depth overview of the legal domain, a hands-on approach to relevant case law, and a reflection on the fundamental changes in the legal system due to the emerging computational infrastructure.
Content of the course
The course is focused on an in-depth understanding of the nature of law and challenges students to develop their legal reasoning skills. The course will consists of 13 weeks, divided into four parts:
Part I What law does
In four weeks students will be introduced to the basics of law and the rule of law, including a the legal domains (private law, public law, criminal law) and the realm of international and supranational law.
Part II Domains of cyberlaw
In five weeks students will be introduced to privacy and data-protection, cybercrime, copyrights in cyberspace and to private law liability.
Part III Frontiers of law in an onlife world
In two weeks students will be introduced to the idea of legal personhood for AI applications, which allows to introduce them to legal subjectivity for non-humans (e.g. corporations), and to the study of agency (represenation) in law. Second, students will be introduced to ‘by design’ approaches to legal norms, notably data protection by design.
Part IV Finals
In the final two weeks, students will reflect on the relationship between ethics, code, and law, followed by a wrap-up of the course.
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1. Be able to detect legal issues and distinguish them from the ethical, political and technical dimensions of a problem.
2. Be capable of locating and interpretingrelevant legal sources (statutes, caselaw, doctrinal texts, international conventions, EU legislation)
3. Have developed skills to reason about legal cases.
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Andere bepaalt 100% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Andere dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Written Exam and assignments. The assignments are an admissibility condition to partake in the written exam.
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Bachelor in de artificiële intelligentie: Standaard traject