Law in Information Society, School of Law (Queens University Belfast)
Queen’s University Belfast
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Learning outcomes | Educational activities | Estimated student work time in hours | Assessment | |
An introduction to the problem and possibilities of the Information Society. | Lectures- What is the internet and what aspects of IT have produced the basis of the EU programme dedicated to building an ‘information society’. In this lecture we look briefly at the technical side of the internet and the potential legal problems arising from the internet.
| 2 hours | The course will be assessed by two essays on any parts of the course (but not on the same general topics). These will be of no less than 2,000 words in length and no more than 2,500 words.
Each essay will be worth 50% of the final course mark
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Reading assignment on the lectures | 5 hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
Cyberspace and Crime | Lectures.- The objective of this lecture is to familiarize with a wide variety of legal issues related to crime implicated by a world interconnected through the medium of the World Wide Web | 2 hours | ||
Reading assignment on the lectures | 5hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
E-Commerce I & E-Commerce II
| Lectures.- The purpose of this lecture is to give an overview of e-commerce-trends as seen from three different perspectives. Law is influenced by both technological and economical trends. This lecture will set the stage by giving insight in the developments of a technology, economy and law. an overview of basic ideas in cryptography and public-key infrastructures (PKI), and then move to a recap of policy efforts throughout. This Lecture will also deal with the concepts of international e-commerce taxation, offshore taxation of e-commerce and other related tax issues such as compliance and administration issues of e-commerce tax
| 4 hours |
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Reading assignment on the lectures | 5 hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
Intellectual Property
| Lectures.- This lecture looks at the EU programme on protection of copyright materials and how successful this might and should be. Is there a place, say, for ‘free’ personal copying. IP is, of course, wider than copyright (including patents, confidentiality, trademarks
| 10 hours |
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Reading assignment on the lectures | 10 hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
Data Protection and State Surveillance
| Lectures.- In this lecture we look at the some of the problems caused by these kinds of transformations of the nature of information. We also look at what is omitted from Data Protection – the needs of the State to observe its populations.
| 2hours |
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Reading assignment on the lectures | 5 hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
Privacy & Freedom of Expression
| Lectures.- We look at attempts to legislate for privacy and it’s related opposite, freedom of expression. Europe is particularly divided on this, and further, the US is even more divergent from Europe. What policy underlies privacy and freedom of expression in the Information Society?
| 2hours |
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Reading assignment on the lectures | 5 hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
E-Government
| Lectures.- In this lecture, we are going to look at the concept of E-Government, its nature and characteristics. We will also investigate legal regulation of E-Gov at the European level. | 2hours |
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Reading assignment on the lectures | 5 hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
Issues in Developing Countries
| Lectures- The purpose of this lecture is to provide an overview of technological and legal issues in developing countries | 2hours |
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Reading assignment on the lectures | 5 hours | |||
Working in small group | 0 hours | |||
Personal reflection of themes presented in the lectures | 10 hours | |||
Development of writing skills | Lecture -To provide support for essay writing. | 4 hours |