LLM in E Law and Commercial Law

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LLM in E Law and Commercial Law

• Dr Darius Whelan,
• University College Cork
• LEFIS Workshop Durham 2004

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UCC Faculty of Law

• Over 500 undergraduate Students (day and
  evening)
• Over 50 postgraduate Students
• 20 full-time staff
• Strong Research Record
• Website www.ucc.ie/law/

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Law Online at UCC

• Irish partner of BAILII British and Irish Legal
  Information Institute www.bailii.org
• Irish Legal Information Initiative
  www.irlii.org
• Irish Law Site www.irishlaw.org
• Cork Online Law Review colr.ucc.ie

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LLM in E Law and Commercial Law

• Only one of its kind in Republic of Ireland
• Minor thesis plus six units
• Minor thesis (12,500 words) must be on e-Law or
  Commercial Law
• Compulsory Units
• Internet Regulation
• Current Issues in CyberLaw
• Electronic Commerce Law

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• Two units from the area of Commercial Law
• Advanced EC Competition Law
• Information Law and Policy
• Principles of Environmental Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• Law of Credit and Security
• Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• One unit either from units above or from
• Contemporary Issues in Irish Constitutional Law
  Challenges in Medical Law and Policy
  Criminology Immigration and Refugee Law
  International Criminal Law Juvenile Justice
  Penology

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Internet Regulation

• Dr Darius Whelan
• Topics
• Policy Issues
• Cybercrime
• Intellectual Property
• Aspects of Domain Name Law
• Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)
• Participation in online mediation arbitration
  competition

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Current Issues in CyberLaw

• Professor Steve Hedley
• Topics
• Defamation and reputation management
• IP issues generally
• Jurisdiction
• Ownership of links in civil law
• Search engines and the law
• Access to websites, and website policies
• Cookies and anonymity online
• Data retention and surveillance
• Multi-national law making
• Survival of old concepts, and a distinctive
  cyberlaw
• Law and control of computer users - Lessigs Code

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Electronic Commerce Law (1)

• Introduction
• Online Transactions - Fidelma White
• E-Commerce the policy background and the legal
  framework
• The Formation and Terms of e-Contracts
• Protecting Consumer Buyers
• Electronic Banking - Mary Donnelly
• The Legal Framework for e-Banking
• Electronic Funds Transfers Legal Issues Arising
• e-Banking Consumer Concerns and Legal Protections

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Electronic Commerce Law (2)

• Online Privacy - Professor Maeve McDonagh
• Privacy issues in the online environment
• Legal protection of privacy data protection and
  electronic communications privacy
• Legal protection of privacy in the online
  environment
• Electronic Signatures - Darius Whelan
• Electronic Signatures in Europe and USA

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Use of Technology in Teaching (1)

• Students trained in use of Internet and
  Lexis-Nexis for legal research since 1993
• Emphasis on Technology in delivery of courses
• Blackboard package
• Hyperlinks

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Use of Technology in Teaching (2)

• Dedicated computer laboratory for law students
• Mobile IT Classroom acquired
• Presidents Award for Research into Innovative
  Forms of Teaching John Mee Darius Whelan -
  Research into Use of Technology for Law Teaching
  and Learning

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Research - Examples

• Maeve McDonagh and Louise Crowley working on the
  Irish monograph for inclusion in the
  International Encyclopaedia of Laws CyberLaw
  (ed. J. Dumortier), Kluwer Law International, The
  Hague, 2004
• E-SIGN PROJECT Study for European Commission on
  implementation of European regulatory framework
  for electronic signatures. Researchers Maeve
  McDonagh and Fidelma White
• Privireal Study for the European Commission on
  the implementation of the Data Protection
  Directive in the area of medical research
  Researchers Maeve McDonagh and Deirdre Madden
• Donnelly, M. McDonagh, M. Maintaining
  Standards in electronic Banking How does Ireland
  Measure Up? (2000) 7 Commercial Law Practitioner
  211-217.

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Industry and Public Sector Links

• Links with Matheson Ormsby Prentice, one of
  Irelands top IT Law Firms, e.g. Postgraduate
  Scholarship in IT Law
• Link with Department of Communications, Marine
  Natural Resources
• Student Placements e.g. Data Protection
  Commissioners Office Electronic Privacy
  Information Center (Washington)

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Other Activities

• Seminar to be held 7 May 2004 on E Law Law for
  the Electronic Age
• Franklin Pierce Law Center to hold Summer
  Institute in Cork, 2005
• Irish Partner in Creative Commons project
• E Law webpages at
• www.ucc.ie/law/lawonline/elaw/