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Students should be able to
- detect legal issues and distinguish them from the ethical, political and technical dimensions of a problem;
- locate and interpret relevant legal sources (statutes, case law, doctrinal texts, international conventions, EU Directives);
- collaborate with lawyers to deeplink legal protection into the computational architecture of e.g. the Internet of Things.
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Short description:
What makes law relevant for computer science experts? What is the difference between law, morality and politics? What does it mean to 'speak law to power'? How do computational technologies change the playing field of traditional written law? What law applies to the sharing of personal data with a company established in the US, e.g. Google? How will data protection law change with the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation? Which investigative techniques can be employed lawfully by justice authorities and how can citizens contest violations of privacy or due process?
This course aims to provide computer and information scientists with an overview of the legal domain and a reflection on the fundamental changes in the legal system due to the emerging computational infrastructure.
Part I
We will start with a general introduction to law in a constitutional democracy, and move on to explain the characteristics of private, public and criminal law. We will then investigate how deterritorialization brought about by the web affects the relationship between national and international jurisdiction.
Part II
The core part of the course will flesh out some the topical issues raised by the rise of ‘cyberspace’: privacy, data protection, eCommerce and cybercrime.
Part III
Finally, we will have a look at the problems caused by relatively independent behaviour of artificial agents and how this can be accommodated by the legal system. In this part of the course we will also investigate challenges and opportunities for building legal protection into the technological infrastructure. |
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| Will be distributed via Blackboard |
• 24 hours lecture
• 28 hours group project work without guidance
• 116 hours individual study period
Extra information teaching methods: Lectures, discussion and written assignments |
| This course is an optional course in the security master specialisation. |
- Law, Democracy and the Rule of Law
- Private Law, Public Law and Criminal Law
- International, Transnational Law
- Privacy and Data Protection- Cybercrime
- Copyright
- Legal Personhood for Artificial Agents?
- Legal Protection by Design |
| written assignments, written exam |
| No specific prior knowledge of law is required. |
| | Required materialsBlackboard| Will be distributed via Blackboard |
| Book| Hage, Jaap, Waltermann, Antonia, Akkermans, Bram (Eds.), Introduction to Law, Springer 2017 |
| ISBN | : | | 978-3-319-57252-9 |
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Instructional modesCourse occurrence
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| Zelfstudie
GeneralLectures, discussion and written assignments
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TestsTentamen| Test weight | | 1 |
| Test type | | Digital exam with TAO |
| Opportunities | | Block KW2, Block KW4 |
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