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1 - Oral assessment and presentation - 25

Essay

2 - Written assignment (including essay) - 75

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<ul><li>The module examines the global race to regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI) at multilateral, international and regional level. It focusses on competing and collaborating regimes, the EU, US, and China specifically as well as other key jurisdictions</li><li>The module examines the hierarchies and intersections of key regimes with international bodies, organisations and law-making, such as the Council of Europe, UNESCO, and the United Nations.</li><li>The module examines the digitalisation of the contemporary economy which creates new vulnerabilities, as foreign governments or non-state actors can seek access to sensitive information or can try to disrupt critical functions or infrastructure. It considers how and where governments and other bodies around the world have increasingly begun to legislate for cybersecurity.</li><li>The module examines how the Internet of Things (IoT) and relevant cybersecurity regulation has meant that jurisdictions increasingly legislate for a broader range of cybersecurity issues as there is more than users to regulate. You will reflect upon who the subjects and objects of regulation and governance are? What divergences and convergences exist with other key players, regions and organisations?</li><li>The module also considers the regulation of fintech and its novelties. Fintech Markets that were once national are morphing into global ones. Online payment systems, crowdfunding platforms, and bitcoin exchanges are transforming the way in which banking and finance is done because they often fall between the ‘cracks’ of traditional legislation. Jurisdiction over international financial markets is not a new problem but the multiplicity of fintech regulation and governance is.</li><li>The module explores digital trade and its scope as to emerging technology. It considers how international economic law is understood to be mired in archaic understandings of digital trade because of uncertainty as to “goods” versus “services” characterisations, split between US, EU and Chinese visions of regulation.</li><li>You will reflect upon how in the era of digitalized globalization, cross-border data sharing is a prerequisite to fully realizing data’s potential value. The module explores cross-border data transfer mechanisms. How do we understand the interoperability of data technology regulation with a world of increasingly multifarious cross-border data arrangements?</li></ul>

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

In-Person - 

Self-directed - 

Digital or Trade? The Contrasting Approaches of China and US to Digital Trade

Journal of International Economic Law

Extra Territoriality and Regulation of International Data Transfers in EU Data Protection Law

International Data Privacy Law 

Fintech (financial technology) and the European Union

Speaking sovereignty: the EU in the cyber domain

Introduction to Symposium on Cybersecurity and the Changing International Law of Data

American Journal of International Law

A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace 

The GDPR as Global Data Protection Regulation?

American Journal of International Law Unbound 

Law for the Platform Economy

Global Data Privacy: The EU Way

New York University Law Journal 

China’s Rise: How It Took on the U.S. at the WTO

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

The China Inc Challenge to the Global Trade Governance

Digital Trade Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements: Introducing a New Dataset

The False Choice Between Digital Regulation and Innovation

The Brussels Effect 

Pitching trade against privacy: reconciling EU governance of personal data flows with external trade

International Data Privacy Law

Data Protection Beyond Borders: Transatlantic Perspectives on Extraterritoriality and Sovereignty 

Public International Law and Fintech Challenges

Digital Borders, Legal Affairs 

Regulating Fintech in the EU: the Case for a Guided Sandbox

A US Perspective on Negotiating with the European Union

The EU as a Global Digital Actor 

The Brussels Side-Effect: How the AI Act Can Reduce the Global Reach of EU Policy

German Law Journal

The Emperor’s New Clothes – Data Privacy and Cybersecurity from a European Perspective

The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech

LMM194  - Regulation and Governance of Emerging Technologies

LMM194 -PRD2-ONL-ALV1

LMM194 -PRD2-PER-ALV1

LMM194 -PRD2-HYB-ALV1

Following the supportive and coherent blended learning design of this module, teaching will facilitate your learning and will help you develop a proper understanding of relevant legal knowledge of Regulation and Governance of Emerging Technology. It will ensure that you are able to develop and demonstrate skills, as listed in the module learning outcomes.  
The module is taught through a series of lectures and seminars. In the lectures you will engage in depth with the core concepts and current issues relevant to your module. In seminars you will be expected to engage in discussions of topics, present legal arguments by yourself or as part of a group, and sometimes, to undertake skills-based work. Seminars have a maximum of 40 students and a minimum of 10. You will normally have a 1-hour lecture and 1-hour seminar per week for this module.  
Both lectures and seminars take place in a flexible environment where you will be supported with a clear week on week framework to guide you incrementally through the learning elements for this module. Your online material will include a range of materials that may include but are not limited to video, audio, graphical and text-based resources, links to relevant further resources which are designed to help you prepare effectively for the relevant lecture and seminar. You will also have pre-reading and self-study tasks that will need to be completed each week, and you will be guided through those tasks by written or recorded instructions. All sessions are designed to be interactive and underpinned by realistic or real-life scenarios. These support your development of knowledge of substantive law, transferable skills, your practical understanding of the subject matter, and where relevant, aspects of the topic relevant to current legal practice.  
It is very important that you develop self-directed learning skills as these are an essential part of being able to study at master’s level.  
You will already have been asked to choose one of the three modes of learning available for this programme:
In-person means your class will normally be timetabled on campus face to face. 
Hybrid (synchronous): means you will join your classes at scheduled times via Microsoft Teams alongside students who will be on campus.
Online (asynchronous): means you will not attend or participate in live classes, instead you will watch recordings of all lectures and seminars, which will be uploaded to the virtual learning environment after the relevant class. 
Each mode of learning is fully supported by online blended learning materials.  You will find further information about the different modes of Learning in the Programme Specification. 
If you are an international student with a Student Visa to study in the UK, you will be required to attend classes in person on campus for the duration of the course.
Please also note that staff support will only be available between 9am – 7pm UK time.

In person: If you choose to study in person, your teaching pattern will be as set out below.
Hybrid (synchronous): If you choose to study hybrid, your 10 hours of lecture study and 10 hours of seminar study will not be held in person, it will be held synchronously online. Your self-directed study hours will remain the same.
Online (asynchronous): If you choose to study online, your 10 hours of lecture study and 10 hours of seminar study will not be held in person, it will be held asynchronously online. Your self-directed study hours will remain the same.

Regulation and Governance of Emerging Technologies

Use technology and generative AI ethically.

Values and attitudes

Synthesise current problems, new insights, current research or advanced scholarship in the area.

Knowledge

Utilise effective planning and organisational skills.

Skills

Critically analyse legislative frameworks, conceptual frameworks and salient case law. 

Develop skills as an independent learner to support your continuing professional and academic development.

Show respect for social values, including inclusivity and cultural awareness.

Independently find, evaluate and apply primary and secondary legal materials in the context of a given legal problem.  

Apply principles relating to the frameworks for analysis of the interaction of digital regulation infrastructures in a broad and detailed manner, to reach justified conclusions or judgments.

Compare and evaluate alternative policy approaches using a range of advised materials, with limited guidance, on defined problems.

Analyse authorities, principles, policies and texts using a range of material with minimum guidance on parts of the syllabus. 

Explore in a critical manner jurisdiction and policy regulation in select areas, and the relationship between international organisations and key legal orders relating to digital regulation and governance.  

Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

Critically examine the key competences and institutions relevant to the EU, US and China 

Deal with research materials ethically and appropriately, including correctly referencing the work of others.