LAW-30097 - Module Specification
School of Law
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2020/21

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2020/21

This module explores the challenges that the technologies of the twenty-first century (such as the Internet, smart technologies, artificial intelligence and robotics) pose on the law and more particularly on fundamental rights. It identifies and critically analyses the key legal frameworks and jurisprudential responses to these new technologies and aims to discuss their successes as well as their limitations.

This module aims to:
- provide a critical understanding of the ways new technologies permeate our everyday activities, our home, our vehicles and our public spaces.
- critically reflect on the legal and ethical challenges that the use of new technologies by individuals and States pose on fundamental rights, such as privacy, data protection, freedom of expression and human dignity.
- identify and critically analyse the key legal frameworks at the supranational and international levels that regulate new technologies and address the challenges posed by them.
- critically analyse major jurisprudential responses to new technologies.

Intended Learning Outcomes

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Study hours

Seminars 10 x 2 = 20 hours
Seminar Preparation Hours (research & reading) - 70 hours
Research for an assessed essay & possibility to submit an essay plan as formative assessment - 30 hours
Writing an assessed essay (summative assessment) - 30 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment