computers and legal education at the nicolaus copernicus university in toruń methodology and...
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Computers and Legal Education at the Nicolaus Copernicus
University in ToruńMethodology and Experiences
Karol Dobrzeniecki, LLM
Summary:
- Introduction: desirable substance and form of the legal education (questions for discussion).
- Educational offer at the NCU in Torun
- Plans and possibilities for the future
- Students’ activity in the field of IT law and legal informatics
Contracts in cyberspace
Is „cyberlaw” a new kind of the law of the horse ?
Crime in cyberspace
Property in cyberspace
Human Rights in cyberspace
Reforming legal education - How should we teach law in the cyberage?
- to modernize legal studies
- to keep their humanistic character
- to avoid technicalization and depersonalization of social relations at the law faculty
The case of Torun, NCU:
Current offer for graduate students:
- legal curricula have generally remained unchallenged but particular issues of IT law are present in teaching programs
- obligatory computer classes for law students
- specialist IT law course
- comparative course
- student working groups’ activity
How to compose a course of the IT law for graduate students?
CRIMINAL LAW
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CIVIL LAW
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HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
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LEGAL THEORY
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- lectures devoted to IT law issues
How to compose a course of the IT law for graduate students?
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1Legal theory
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Corresponding subjects at the computer classes, e.g. digital signature, click-wrap licenses. User level.
Civil law
Human Rights
Etc.
Etc.
Criminal law
LLM Seminars
- Criminal Procedure
- Criminal Law and Computer Law
- Civil Law
- Human Rights Law
Specialist Course
IT Law for Criminal Lawyers
- 15 hours
- content: privacy issues, data protection, electronic signature, electronic document, cyber crime, intellectual property in the network environment
Course of Comparative Law
- all subjects offered in English
- target group: Socrates students
- Comparative Criminal Procedure - electronic evidence, child pornography in the European Perspective
Plans for the future:
- new topics at the course of comparative law:
1. Consumer protection in cyberspace - formation of contracts
2. Protection of consumers in contracts negotiated at a distance.
3. Protection against misleading and unfair advertising on Internet
4. Protection of collective consumers interests - unfair e-commerce
Students activity
Student Working Group of the Computer Law
- registered in 2000
- dealing with a role of law in the information society
- seminaries, conferences, meetings and discussions, cooperation with academics
- www.sknpk.uni.torun.pl
Conclusion
A need for balanced and responsible IT implementations:
- into the curricula
- into the educational process
Rather to form a good lawyer with some IT competence than an IT expert with a superficial legal knowledge.