3 ECTS credits
90 u studietijd
Aanbieding 1 met studiegidsnummer 6022047FNR voor alle studenten in het 2e semester met een gespecialiseerd master niveau.
This course analyses the challenges that new developments in communication, computing and data processing represent for the law, taking a European perspective. The course explores the intersections between EU policies and the digital transformation from the perspective of the digital economy and public security. It throws light on the major challenges of the digital economy and contextualises contemporary debates on data (data ‘ownership’ and data ‘sovereignty’) and new types of services (cloud computing, online platforms). It will also address criminal law aspects of digital transformation, such as the fight against cybercrime.
The first part focuses on the EU legal response to the digital transformation, the digital ecosystem of digital services. It assesses the algorithmic systems (AI), online platform regulation, telecommunications and media regulation. It also tackles the EU approach to the liability and responsibility of online service providers, the role of fundamental rights in relevant legal frameworks, the emergence of new risk regulation approaches, oversight and enforcement, transparency and accountability.
The second part focuses on public law, (cyber)security, and criminal law-based regulation to combat cyber-crime. It discusses (cyber)security, state techniques to combat (cyber)criminality, as well as, the growing trend towards European criminal law (Schengen, Europol, etc.). Additionally, the course will highlight how contemporary data practices, typically bringing together both public and private actors across complex jurisdictional boundaries, need a sound understanding of different legal fields and instruments. Special attention is given to both EU internal challenges (such as the delimitation of EU/national competence, acutely contested in (national) security matters), and external challenges, investigating the legal and institutional issues surrounding the role of the EU as a global (data) actor.
Mandatory reading (including draft regulatory initiatives and related official reports) is communicated in advance to students, prior to sessions.
The course will familiarise students with all relevant legal and policy fields in relation to the regulation of data and related issues in the EU. After successful completion students will be able to explain the concept of digital transformation and the major legal challenges this brings about for the EU, understand the emergence of cloud computing and online platforms and their regulation at EU level, argue how fundamental rights are relevant in the EU’s response to the digital transformation, understand the relevance of important regulatory approaches, including cybersecurity and risk regulation as well as the combination of transparency and accountability, apply relevant legal provisions from platform regulation, the regulation of AI and algorithmic systems, as well as, explain what cybersecurity and cybercrime is and what their major challenges are for legislators and for practitioners.
De beoordeling bestaat uit volgende opdrachtcategorieën:
Examen Mondeling bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer
Examen Schriftelijk bepaalt 50% van het eindcijfer
Binnen de categorie Examen Mondeling dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
Binnen de categorie Examen Schriftelijk dient men volgende opdrachten af te werken:
The students will be evaluated on the basis of a written exam (combining short open-ended questions with a broader question, in which several issue areas will intersect, 50% of final evaluation), and an oral exam (questions on the mandatory literature and on the contents of the lectures, 50% of final evaluation).
Deze aanbieding maakt deel uit van de volgende studieplannen:
Master in International and European Law: Standaard traject (enkel aangeboden in het Engels)