This course will explore the legal issues faced by judges, legislators, prosecutors, and defense attorneys when responding to the recent dramatic rise in computer crime. In particular, we will examine how online crime challenges traditional approaches to investigating, prosecuting and defending crimes that have evolved from our experiences of crimes in physical space. Topics covered include: the Online Fourth Amendment, the Electronic Surveillance Act, Hacking and Other Computer Crimes, Cyberterrorism, the First Amendment and the Internet, and Internet Civil Liberties. The two-year course in Law and New Technologies covers a wide range of issues related to current legal dynamics and transformations in the context of technological research. + LL.M. Technology Law and Policy is aimed at both law school graduates who wish to enter technology-related fields, as well as lawyers and policymakers who wish to enhance their expertise in the field. Home to the country`s leading academic program in technology law and policy, Georgetown Law is the perfect place for this innovative degree. We offer over 70 technology law courses and have 16 full-time faculty teaching in the cluster. The course is based on the premise that computer programming has become an important skill for non-technical professionals in general and for future lawyers and policy makers in particular. Lawyers, regardless of their specialty or type of practice, organize, evaluate and manipulate large amounts of textual data (e.g., cases, laws, regulations, contracts, etc.). Increasingly, lawyers are being asked to deal with complex quantitative data and databases. Very simple programming techniques can speed up and simplify these tasks, but these programming techniques tend to be misunderstood in legal practice and lack legal training. In this class, students gain knowledge in various skills related to programming.
The Master of Laws in Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship is designed for practicing lawyers or law graduates who wish to enhance their legal and leadership skills at the heart of New York`s ever-changing technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether your law degree is from the United States or from a law school outside the United States, if you have a law degree and want to enhance your knowledge and practice in technology law, your application is welcome. In this field placement, students will be placed in one of many nonprofit organizations working to uncover and mitigate the impact of mass surveillance on historically marginalized communities. Potential hosts include national, regional and local organizations that focus on surveillance as an aspect of mass deportations and mass detentions. Projects may include legal and policy research, litigation assistance, report writing, drafting and analyzing legislation, requesting public documents, and oral defense to federal and federal decision-makers. One of the central points is the evolution of the relationship between antitrust law and intellectual property rights. We will discuss post-Actavis issues in the late payment space, including unauthorised generic promises from pioneering drug manufacturers and whether continued infringement proceedings immunize reverse payment. Outside of life sciences, pressing issues include antitrust restrictions on aggregation of intellectual property by patent enforcement companies and incumbent companies. When does a “privatisation agreement” between an incumbent company and an EAP involve competition law? Is the owner of a standard-essential patent violating antitrust law if they attempt to prohibit a technology user from licensing on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms despite their prior assurance? We will also look at antitrust restrictions on patent licenses and denials. Guidelines from authorities abroad, such as in China, and enforcement actions in Asia generally indicate the direction of international antitrust law in this area.
This course provides students with an overview of the broad scope of modern national security law in the United States and the many still unresolved and convoluted legal, policy, practice, and moral issues that arise as the government strives to protect national security while preserving the universally free and open society that most American citizens expect. Students will critically examine the justification offered and the scope of security-based governance, considering practical alternatives and outcomes. Through a series of lectures and demonstrations featuring leading industry experts, this seminar will provide valuable insights that will shed light on the fascinating interplay between technology and law, with a particular focus on how business outcomes can be shaped by leveraging an understanding of data. security and technology. This course builds on the reality that what a lawyer needs to know about the impact of information technology on litigation transcends traditional boundaries between law school courses and generally addresses the impact of information technology on the management and negotiation of criminal, civil, and administrative matters. All LLM students in Law, Science and Technology will participate in a weekly colloquium led by the lecturer for the Law, Science and Technology program. The colloquium includes an overview and discussion of selected topics in law, science and technology, presentations of research results and articles by visiting professors and researchers, as well as external speakers, often practicing lawyers. Students are also encouraged to attend other seminars and lectures on campus that are relevant to the topics covered at the required colloquium. In Studio, you`ll create real technology products and solutions for organizations like Uber and the Robin Hood Foundation. You also develop your own startup concept and maybe even bring it to market. This course explores the security requirements for voting systems (especially those used for citizen elections in the United States), how different technological designs and implementations do or do not meet these requirements, and how these systems can be improved. The course focuses on the impact of various voting technologies (“voting machines”), as well as backend election management systems and processes that define ballots, register voters, provide constituency equipment, and perform vote counting and reporting.
While this is not our primary focus, we will also explore the interaction between modern social media and foreign and domestic influence operations aimed at influencing election outcomes. Students have the option to take this course for two or three credits. All three loan options require paper that meets upper-class legal drafting requirements in accordance with Law Center regulations. Both loan options require completion of one thesis or several shorter legal writing samples on topics selected or assigned by students. In this course, we will examine whether emerging biotech conflicts can be best resolved through regulation, judicial intervention, or private negotiations. Professor Goodwin encourages vigorous dialogue. Therefore, students should come to class prepared with their ideas, intuitions and opinions. Your analysis should show an understanding of materials.
Students are expected to discuss materials, act responsibly towards their peers, and behave professionally. There are no prerequisites for this course. However, students must be prepared for rigorous discussions and thorough reading assignments. This course is a core component for other courses in ethics, health law, and a law and science curriculum, including patents, food and drug law, health regulations, and bioethics.