Cyberspace Law 2.0 - GENL2032
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Exclusion: enrolment in program 3502, 3543, 3571, 3979, 3971
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
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Description
This course will focus on the regulation of the online world and networked transactions and will explore these ideas from the viewpoint of users and consumers, particularly those engaging with Social Media and other Internet 2.0 services. Cyberspace Law 2.0 is a General Studies elective subject for non-law- students, while LAWS3532 is available for certain law students.
It provides a good grounding for understanding how the legal and regulatory world interacts with online ones.
Main Topics
The Cyberspace Law 2.0 Course aims to assist you to:
It provides a good grounding for understanding how the legal and regulatory world interacts with online ones.
Main Topics
The Cyberspace Law 2.0 Course aims to assist you to:
- Appreciate how the online world is similar and different from the physical world from a regulatory perspective;
- become competent in reading and understanding court case judgments and how they are constructed and show which arguments won and why;
- be able to take a systematic approach to analysing the legal issues involved in various problems and conflicts commonly encountered online;
- develop an understanding of the implications of different countries and jurisdictions having different laws, but online services covering the world;
- understand the range of options which may be available for dealing with online disputes, and how to choose amongst them
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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