LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF EMERGING CONCEPTS

Course Objectives:

To enable the students to understand and to familiarize with:

1. the main features of the legal system;
2. the main challenges of ‘emerging concepts’ from a legal point of view; preparation of the regulatory response to new developments; and
3. different manners of using emerging concepts within the legal system itself.

By following an interdisciplinary approach, the course encourages the students to take a multidisciplinary approach when analysing a topic. The course also develops students’ analytical, research and writing skills.

Course Content: This course aims to discuss legal implications of emerging concepts. In the context of the course, the term ‘emerging concept’ refers not only to technological advancements (such as artificial intelligence and the blockchain technology) but also to emerging concepts in the fields of economy, sociology and psychology (such as ‘pink tax’ and developments in gender studies). The course consists of a twofold analysis: (I) regulatory response to new developments (like new rules developed in relation to the emerging concept) and (ii) use of the emerging concept within the legal system (like the integration of a new technology within the design of the legal system). The course analyses legal implications of different emerging concepts, such as eSports, social media, digital economy, pink tax artificial intelligence (and the so-called ‘robot taxes’), big data (and ‘data tax’), implications of the use of blockchain technology In 48arious (such as smart contracts and crypto currencies) and metaverse.