LLAW3301 Law in a Digital Age

2019

4.5

1 x 2-hour lecture per semester
1 x 3-hour workshop fortnightly
6 x 1-hour on-line lectures per semester

1 Admission into BLAWLPR-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice
1a Admission into BLAWLPRG-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Graduate Entry)
1b Admission into BLAWLPRH-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Honours)
1c Admission into BLAWLPRGH-Bachelor of Laws and Legal Practice (Graduate Entry) (Honours)
1d Admission into BLAWS-Bachelor of Laws
1e Admission into BLAWSH-Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
1f Admission into BLLAW-Bachelor of Laws
1g Admission into BLLAWH-Bachelor of Laws (Honours)
1h Admission into BLLAWFP-Bachelor of Laws - City Campus
1i Admission into BLLAWHFP-Bachelor of Laws (Honours) - City Campus
2 27 units of Level 1 LLAW topics
Must Satisfy: ((1 or 1a or 1b or 1c or 1d or 1e or 1f or 1g or 1h or 1i) and 2)

1 of LLAW3263, LLAW3337, LLAW3338 has been successfully completed

Assignment(s), Test(s), Tutorial Participation

This topic will expose students to a range of legal issues surrounding the use and advancement of technology. It will encompass challenges within traditional legal disciplines: criminal law, tort law, and intellectual property law. Additionally, the topic will explore the emerging areas of data protection and cybersecurity, as well as introducing students to basic elements of computer coding and other digital legal tools relevant to future legal practice. Students will be placed in teams to simulate the progression of a technology start-up: from conception of the idea, through each stage of necessary legal consideration throughout the semester.

This topic aims to:

1. Provide students with an understanding of the nuanced challenges posed to discrete disciplines of law by the rapid adoption of increasingly sophisticated technology
2. Provide students with knowledge of cybersecurity and data protection principles relevant to practice
3. Provide students with the skills necessary to undertake legal audits in respect of intellectual property, cyber security, and data protection risk management
4. Provide students with the necessary foundation to understand the role and use of technology in legal practice.

On completion of this topic, students will be expected to be able to:

1. Demonstrate a capacity for undertaking advanced legal research
2. Demonstrate ability to:
   1. understand approaches to ethical decision making; and

   2. recognise and reflect upon, and a developing ability to respond to, ethical issues likely to arise in professional contexts

3. Demonstrate ability to identify and articulate complex legal and technological issues in the context of simulating legal practice with respect to high technology issues
4. Demonstrate ability to communicate in ways that are effective, appropriate and persuasive for legal and non-legal audiences; and collaborate effectively
5. Demonstrate ability to:
   1. learn and work with a high level of autonomy, accountability and professionalism, and

   2. reflect on and assess their own capabilities and performance, and make use of feedback as appropriate, to support personal and professional development.