Technology Law
Technology Law examines how the legal system interacts with technology, covering economic/social impacts, legal uncertainties, and resolution strategies by courts, legislatures, and agencies.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Articulate the recurring law and policy questions raised by new technologies
Identify the strengths and limitations of legal responses including law-by-analogy, making new law, and reconfiguring legal institutions
Evaluate legal challenges and appropriate responses with respect to specific technologies at the center of current regulatory debates
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Examines how the legal system and technology interact. Topics include the economic and social impacts of technology; the uncertainties technology raises for the law; the strategies through which courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and international institutions resolve these uncertainties; and efforts by incumbent and newcomer industries to use the legal system to advance their interests. Technologies discussed may include smartphones, autonomous weapon systems, domestic drones, robotics, driverless cars, cyberwarfare, the railroad, the internet of things, social media, big data analytics, the sharing economy, generative AI, and other breaking developments.
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Topics
- Smartphones, autonomous weapon systems, domestic drones, robotics, driverless cars, cyberwarfare, the railroad, the internet of things, social media, big data analytics, the sharing economy, and generative AI
- Strategies used by courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and international institutions to resolve legal uncertainties raised by technology
- Efforts by incumbent and newcomer industries to use the legal system to advance their interests
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- Articulating recurring law and policy questions raised by new technologies
- Identifying strengths and limitations of legal responses like law-by-analogy and making new law
- Evaluating legal challenges and responses for technologies in current regulatory debates
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