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Global Data Law (LAW-DS-GLODAT-24)

LAW-DS-GLODAT-24

Description

Different kinds of analog and digital data play important roles in contemporary societies and economies around the world. Global data governance is hence highly contextual and often characterized by the intricate interplay of law and infrastructure and shaped by a broad array of public and private actors. Recently, digital data has become a focal point of regulatory efforts in the European Union and around the world.

This seminar explores conceptual questions of “data law” such as: How should we think about “data” and “information” from a legal perspective? How can private and public actors establish jurisdiction over data? Who owns data? What data should be “open”? What will future data sharing infrastructures and collective data governance arrangements look like?

The seminar transcends the established (but likely unsustainable) divide between “personal” and “non-personal” data (such as weather, ocean, machine, or business data). It is hence not a course in data protection law as such. The idea is to center “data” as a regulatory object – in line with the EU’s dominant regulatory approach – and to critically evaluate the assumptions that underpin the EU’s regulatory agenda in comparison and contrast with the evolving regulatory landscape in the United States, China, India, and elsewhere.

The seminar integrates insights from (critical) data studies and media and communication studies and discusses the potential for and challenges of conducting inter-disciplinary work in this domain. Data law questions and problems arise in many contexts – the seminar will be attuned to researchers’ own interests and projects (facilitated through short presentations).

Attendance and active participation required. Assignments include response papers and a short presentation that links the seminar topic to the researchers’ own research agenda.

First, Second & Third Term: registration from 26 to 30 September 2024

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