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#LL204: Cyberlaw - Law - Courses - LSE Summer School - Summer schools - Study Course Content This course covers a selection of topics in the field of Information Technology and the Law (or Cyberlaw). It will begin by considering the debate about the nature of the influence of information technology upon the development of new legal doctrine, moving on to consider, through topics such as data protection, computer misuse and computer evidence, copyright and digital rights management, criminal content liability and defamation, both how the law has responded to the challenges of information technologies, and the extent to which legal issues have shaped the development of information society policy. The focus will be initially on English law, although the global nature of IT law means that there is strong EU, Commonwealth and US legal influence upon the English system, so comparative aspects will be introduced, and readings will include materials drawn from, amongst others, US law journals. The course is divided into four modules: Introduction to Cyberlaw and Digitisation
Cyberproperty and Intellectual Property
Cyber-rights, Speech Harm, Crime and Control
This course does not require an in-depth understanding of information technology we are primarily interested in the implications of the use of information technology, and the intended and unintended consequences of regulating that use. Course outcomes At the end of the course, students should be able to:
World-class LSE teaching LSE Law has excelled once again in the UK's nationwide assessment of research quality, impact and environment. The Research Excellence Framework results | published in December 2014 show that LSE Law is the UK's number one law school for legal research. The 2014 QS World University faculty rankings | for Law also place the LSE in the world's top ten for the subject, making it London's best Law School. On this three week intensive programme, you will engage with and learn from full-time lecturers from the LSE s law faculty. LL204 course lecturers Professor Andrew Murray and Dr Orla Lynskey teach on a number of our undergraduate and graduate law modules, including Information Technology and the Law and Digital Rights: Privacy and Security. ____________________________________________________________________ Murray: Information Technology Law: Law and Society. (2 nd Edition) (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013). Reference Texts Lessig: Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace ver.2.0 (Basic Books, New York 2006).
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