EU Digital Law
Course Level
intermediate - advanced / 3rd - 4th year
Course Language
English
Course Classification
This is a Themis course. It is also open to non-Themis students.
Teaching Mode
The course is taught face-to-face.
Contact Hours
2 hours per week
ECTS-credits
5
Frequency
This course will be taught at irregular intervals. It will be available rather in the summer term than in the winter term.
Time Schedule and Course Venue
please see our electronic course catalogue
Course Content
Since 2020, the European Union has been pursuing a plan to regulate the digital single market. With its numerous individual laws, the EU not only wants to facilitate trade in the digital sector, but also to ensure that the fundamental rights of EU citizens are protected in digital contexts. As a result, a separate European digitization law has developed. In this course, we will discuss the structures of this new field of law and apply the central laws of the EU’s “digital package” to selected cases.
Among other things, the course will cover the following aspects:
- Algorithms and artificial intelligence as a regulatory challenge
- Protection of fundamental rights in digital contexts
- The EU's competences for digitization law
- The regulation of artificial intelligence by the AI Act
- Digital platforms as a regulatory challenge
- The Digital Services Act (DSA)
- European data law: data protection law (GDPR) and new laws on personal and non-personal data (Data Act, Data Governcance Act)
- European media law; European Media Freedom Act (EMFA)
- Rules against the manipulation of electoral processes and for political advertising, combating disinformation
A digital collection of legal texts will be provided for the course. References will be provided during the course.
Restricted Enrollment
yes (that means that the number of participants is limited and that you might not get a place in this course)
Course Registration
Please sign up for this course under the module "Study Program for Exchange Students - Module 24"
registration period: 1 April 2025, 9 a.m. - 11 April 2025, 12.p.m. (noon)
In order to know if you have obtained a place in this course, please check out your course plan on Campus Management (tab "Stundenplan") from 12 April 2025.
As long as there are still seats available after the registration period has expired, they will be allocated according to the principle "first come, first served" if you sign up by 2 May 2025.
De-Registration from this Course
regular drop period: 1 April 2025, 9 a.m. - 2 May 2025, 12 a.m. (midnight)
After the regular drop period you can only drop this course with a valid cause until 14 days prior to the exam. Please contact the International Office at the Law Department if you have to use this option.
Type of Exam
A final exam
Exam Period
The exam will probably take place in the last week of the lecture period or in the preceeding week. → Academic Calendar
Registration for the Exam
Students will automatically be registered for the exam when they sign up for this course.
De-Registration from the Exam
Students who drop this course via Campus Management are automatically de-registered from the exam. Students who do not drop this course via Campus Management and do not take the exam, are going to finish this course with a non-passing grade (0 points).
Grade Release