Module Information
Course Delivery
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | Module Assessment Written Assignment of 5,000 words | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Explain the general nature of the legal challenges posed by the conflict between the paradigm of national law and the transnational nature of the Internet.
2. Explain the broad regulatory framework for allocating regulatory competence between States in respect of private/civil and public/criminal matters and the similarities and differences between those broad legal areas.
3. Explain the historical development of rules determining personal jurisdiction in the US and UK and identify common trends and problems in those developments.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the country-of-destination approach and the exclusive country-of-origin approach to allocating regulatory competence and their specific application to various substantive areas of law.
5. Demonstrate, by reference to examples, such as gambling regulation, an understanding of the legal, social and economic conditions under which the exclusive country-of-origin approach may be an acceptable solution to competence over online activity.
6. Explain, by reference to examples, such as hate speech regulation, the challenges posed by the restrictive nature of the enforcement jurisdiction and the measures taken by States to overcome those limitations.
7. Critically evaluate and compare the fundamental solutions available to States to resolve the conflict between national law and the transnational Internet.
Brief description
Content
2. Locating competence approaches to online activity in the UK, Germany, France, the EU, US and Australia within the historical development of jurisdictional concepts and within the national law paradigm.
3. Case studies: competence approaches in particular substantive legal areas such as defamation law, hate speech regulation, gambling regulation and a critical evaluation of the common trends emerging from these studies.
4. Evaluation of the efficacy and feasibility of actual and potential `private? and `public? solutions to resolving the conflict of national law and transnational online activity e.g. substantive harmonization, harmonization of competence rules, code, territorial blocking and the exclusive country-of-origin approach.
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7