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

Module label	Digitalisation and Law - Deepening
Modulkürzel	wir816
Credit points	6.0 KP
Workload	180 h
Institute directory	Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law (Economics)
Verwendbarkeit des Moduls	Master's programme Business Administration: Management and Law (Master) > Schwerpunktmodule RdW - Recht Master's programme Business Administration: Management and Law (Master) > Schwerpunktmodule UF - Recht
Zuständige Personen	Lehrenden, Die im Modul (Prüfungsberechtigt) Wendland, Matthias (module responsibility)
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
Literaturempfehlungen	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
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Language of instruction	German
Duration (semesters)	1 Semester
Module frequency	Annual
Module capacity	unlimited
Type of module	Wahlpflicht / Elective
Teaching/Learning method	Lecture (WS) Seminar (SoSe)

Examination	Prüfungszeiten	Type of examination
Final exam of module	End of semester	Presentation and essay

Lehrveranstaltungsform	VA-Auswahl
SWS	4
Frequency	SoSe oder WiSe
Workload Präsenzzeit	56 h