wir806 - Information Technology Law (Complete module description)

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The students are familiar with the effects of digitalisation with its chances and risks in European and German private law and, in particular, consumer law. They obtain knowledge of specific areas of digitalised private law and consumer law with particular relevance for their future professional practice, are able to solve consumer law cases in a goal-oriented way, are able to find approaches for legal problems as well as recognise liability risks and how to deal with them, and are, in contract negotiations, able to recognise the requirements for regulation and to evaluate its consequences

This module conveys how new technologies impact on private law and, in particular, on consumer law. It focuses on the (modified) interpretation of existing laws but even more on the reactions of the EU and national legislators and of the judiciary to new technological developments. The module discusses, among others, distance selling law, digitalised sales law and product liability law, the law of digital content and digital services, unfair commercial practices on internet and the law of the platform economy. Finally, the module looks at enforcement.

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