Cancelled Regulating Internet Giants - Google, Amazon and Facebook
Course content
How is the Internet different (or not) from prior telecommunication technologies? What are similarities and differences in the business models of major Internet corporations? Which ‘law’ applies to them? What is the role of governments and major internet corporations in Internet infrastructure governance? To what extent are their interests aligned? Who holds power?
How are new technologies introduced by IG relevant to us? How is or could AI be regulated?
Global digital corporations (e.g. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Twitter) have played leading roles in shaping the transnational digital order, enabled by light regulation and robust liability protection in the US. Their platforms make rules, and their lobbying has influenced both national regulators and international treaty negotiators especially in the ‘electronic commerce’ and ‘digital trade’ chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the new NAFTA between the US, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA). But these US companies are encountering increasing regulatory pushback, especially in the EU, and a different approach prevails in China, the home of several world-leading internet companies (e.g. Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent).
This course offers an overview of the Internet’s technological foundations, infrastructure, and governance, focusing on global Internet corporations’ role in each of these. We then canvas core legal concepts and ideas about cyber-law, cyber-conflicts, and the regulation of Internet corporations and their platforms in global contexts. As part of the course, we tackle the most recent scholarship and developments in the area, including current controversies, novel technologies, and regulatory challenges.
The course deals with a rapidly changing and very complex technological and economic environment. The objective for the course is to equip students with the basic knowledge, core concepts, and versatile tools necessary to think critically and creatively about the legal and extra-legal regulation of global internet corporations going forward.
- Become familiar with a set of questions that the internet giants raise (such as interference with elections, privacy interference, etc). The course will also address how Eu and national states can approach the issue.
- Be aware of the latest developments in Denmark and in other countries
- Identify the central issues and challenges facing governments and international institutions, such as problems of self-regulation, content regulation, security issues.
- Critically read and analyze both theoretical and empirical literature on the issue.
- Apply the knowledge built during the course to real life examples.
The students are expected to read the mandatory readings and
participate actively in class.
The course will adopt the Socratic method and students will be
called upon to contribute on cases they have read for class.
To improve the learning process, the course uses both traditional
lecturing methods and other more interactive and research-based
techniques aimed at activating the students in class (including the
viewing of a film).
The goal is to educate students into thinking ciritcally and
independently, to engage with legal texts from several
jurisdictions and to think critically about global corporations.
The class room should be a learning environment in which the
students can restructure the knowledge previously acquired through
the readings into a richer and more critical knowledge. In
addition, to encourage the reflection on the ideas presented in
class, students will be asked to investigate the topic as it
relates to their own jurisdiction refer to relevant academic and
legal (Case-law) literature.
The materials will be provided online: they include research articles, books and judicial decisions, as well as relevant case notes or comments analysing these decisions. In addition, a film will be played to help students think about how internet came about.
It is illegal to share digital textbooks with each other without permission from the copyright holder.
Some knowledge of human rights law, international law.
English proficiency, critical thinking, ability and willigness to participate in class.
- Students enrolled at Faculty of Law: Self Service at KUnet
- Students enrolled at other UCPH faculties or Danish universities, who holds a pre-approval from their Study Board: Credit student application form
- All other students or professionals: Single subject application form (tuition fee apply)
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
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Written assignment
- Type of assessment details
- Individual written assignment
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
- Exam period
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Hand-in date: October 26, 2023
- Re-exam
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Hand-in date: January 22, 2024
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Preparation
- 178,25
- Seminar
- 28
- English
- 206,25
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- JJUA55274U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
Full Degree Master choice
- Duration
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1 semester
- Placement
- Autumn
- Price
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- Students enrolled at Faculty of Law or holding a pre-approval: No tuition fee
- Professionals: Please visit our website
- Schedulegroup
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Please see timetable for teaching hours
- Studyboard
- Law
Contracting department
- Law
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Law
Course Coordinators
- Iryna Marchuk (13-6e777e736633726677686d7a70456f7a7733707a336970)
- Hin-Yan Liu (11-6b6c71307c6471316f6c78436d7875316e7831676e)
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