Law and Technology: Comparative Perspectives (Zurich) - LAWS8346
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 0
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200 or 5740
Equivalent: JURD7546, LAWS3346
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course will be offered in Summer Semester only.
This course will explore the interaction between law and modern technology. It will introduce students to the potentially problematic relationship between legal rules and technological change, and then begin to explore real substantive problems at the interface between them. This will require some understanding of particular legal doctrines and particular technologies, which the course itself will provide. It is the aim of the course to teach, encourage and nurture creative legal (and technological) thinking when contemplating questions such as the possible regulation and/or promotion (for example, through patents) of technology and technological change. This course also provides students with knowledge of the legal frameworks and theoretical approaches regarding regulation of technologies in a global and transnational context. The course will draw on Australian, US, and European perspectives (among others) in order to ensure that student’s understand the topics covered on a broader, global canvas.
The precise topics covered will vary in order to match both the knowledge of lecturers and the currency of topics. Examples of what may be covered include:
This course will explore the interaction between law and modern technology. It will introduce students to the potentially problematic relationship between legal rules and technological change, and then begin to explore real substantive problems at the interface between them. This will require some understanding of particular legal doctrines and particular technologies, which the course itself will provide. It is the aim of the course to teach, encourage and nurture creative legal (and technological) thinking when contemplating questions such as the possible regulation and/or promotion (for example, through patents) of technology and technological change. This course also provides students with knowledge of the legal frameworks and theoretical approaches regarding regulation of technologies in a global and transnational context. The course will draw on Australian, US, and European perspectives (among others) in order to ensure that student’s understand the topics covered on a broader, global canvas.
The precise topics covered will vary in order to match both the knowledge of lecturers and the currency of topics. Examples of what may be covered include:
- Theories of law and technology and the regulation of technology
- Understanding the law’s role in channelling, promoting or hindering technological change
- Regulating disruptive technologies (for example - Uber, Airbnb and 3D printing)
- Law and changing contexts (for example - offline to online in the context of censorship, speech rights, defamation and reputation management, copyright, privacy)
- Patenting and licensing Issues
- Human rights, digital rights and controversial technologies (for example, surveillance technologies)
- Big Data, algorithms and traditional expectations for public and private decision-making
- New forms of evidence (for example, digital evidence or algorithmic outputs)
- New crimes and criminal techniques (for example, Dark Net and botnets)
LLM Specialisations
Innovation Law
Media and Technology Law
More information can be found on the Overseas Elective Courses in Law Website.
Media and Technology Law
More information can be found on the Overseas Elective Courses in Law Website.
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