Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Have knowledge and ability to understand issues in the academic field of internet and digital economy law
- Use their knowledge and their ability to comprehend in practice , and to reinforce skills that have to be proven by developing and supporting arguments and solve practical problems in the field of internet and digital economy law
- Provide accurate information on internet and digital economy law issues and propose practical solutions to legal problems
- To have acquired those skills to further knowledge, which is necessary to proceed to postgraduate studies.
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course attempts to approach legal issues arising from the modern data economy, with an interdisciplinary approach covering aspects of commercial law, civil law, personal data protection issues, etc. In particular, it presents the Digital Single Market and the new Data Economy, the new technologies in the service of the data economy, such as the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence. It then analyzes the data that are produced by machines and the legal regulations for digital platforms, covering issues of freedom of expression,the Digital Services Regulation, the Digital Markets Act, the European Data Governance Regulation, the Data Regulation, and then the legal issues from Artificial Intelligence and finally, virtual currencies and smart contracts.
Keywords
internet, digital economy, artificial intellegience, digital plaftorms, cryptocurrency, blockchain