wir816 - Digitalisation and Law - Deepening (Complete module description)

wir816 - Digitalisation and Law - Deepening (Complete module description)

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Module label Digitalisation and Law - Deepening
Module code wir816
Credit points 6.0 KP
Workload 180 h
Institute directory Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law (Economics)
Applicability of the module
  • Master's Programme Business Administration, Economics and Law (Master) > Schwerpunktmodule RdW - Recht
  • Master's Programme Business Administration, Economics and Law (Master) > Schwerpunktmodule UF - Recht
  • Master's programme Business Administration: Management and Law (Master) > Schwerpunktmodule RdW - Recht
  • Master's programme Business Administration: Management and Law (Master) > Schwerpunktmodule UF - Recht
Responsible persons
  • Wendland, Matthias (module responsibility)
  • Lehrenden, Die im Modul (authorised to take exams)
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge, B.A. with law parts
Skills to be acquired in this module
  • Participants will understand how digitization affects society and the law. They will learn from selected examples how the law is adapting to digitalization - and where the law reaches its limits.
  • The module is theory-, method- and application-oriented.
  • The module is interdisciplinary: social science, technological and economic issues are integrated into the module alongside legal content.
  • Students develop the ability to see law in its social, economic and technological context. They learn to analyze the interactions of law with digitalization
Module contents
  • Fundamentals: Digitization as a technological and a cultural development.
  • Characteristics of digitization
  • Challenge of law through digitization
  • Limits of law in the digitized world: selected areas of law as examples
Recommended reading
  • Volker Boehme-Neßler, Unscharfes Recht. Überlegungen zur Relativierung des Rechts in der digitalisierten Welt, 2008.
  • Volker Boehme-Neßler, Digitising Democracy. Heidelberg 2020
  • Walter Frenz (Hrsg.), Handbuch Industrie 4.0, Heidelberg/Berlin 2020
  • Thomas Hoeren u.a. (Hrsg.), Handbuch Multi Media Recht, München 2020
Links
Language of instruction German
Duration (semesters) 1 Semester
Module frequency Annual
Module capacity unlimited
Type of module Wahlpflicht / Elective
Module level SPM (Schwerpunktmodul / Main emphasis)
Teaching/Learning method Vorlesung
Examination Prüfungszeiten Type of examination
Final exam of module
End of semester
 Presentation and essay
Type of course Course selection
SWS 4
Frequency SuSe or WiSe
Workload attendance time 56 h