Legal Studies

In this survey course, students critically assess a selection of fundamental legal issues in the field of Information Technology (IT) Law. Students are introduced to key debates in technology and internet governance: do we need distinct legal rules to regulate technological systems? Who does, and should, enact these rules? Are technological systems like the Internet neutral, and should they be? Once students are equipped with this knowledge of technology governance and the challenges this poses for the law, they go on to consider how the law has responded to the challenges brought about by technological systems and the extent to which legal issues have shaped the development of information society policy. The course does this by examining the key issues under three headings: data; digital platforms and current challenges.

Through an analysis of their health policies, this seminar examines the philosophical, historical, and political conceptions underlying the organization of health systems in France and the United States. It looks at the actions of governmental and local actors through decentralization or devolution; health systems and social coverage financing; the impact of political and media debates reflected in the texts, from the Social Security financing bills to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act instituting "Obamacare”; hospital governance; the management of care, technical, and organizational projects in hospitals; and the reality of daily life management and crises.

The course provides a basis and preconditions to constructively and critically reflect on the interplay between global health, the Convention of the Rights of the Child, and different international and national norm-supporting structures. The course
offers basic knowledge of the contents of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and global health, and also discusses the interplay between the Convention on the Rights of the Child and global health. The course discusses the importance of the Convention for the development of children's rights and living conditions, policies, strategies, and laws.
 

This course discusses ideas about law through art such as literature, cinema, painting, architecture, monuments, and music. Among the legal concepts discussed are the definition of law and justice; equality and the role of the state; transitional justice; reparations; women's struggle for resources and power; race, class, and gender discrimination; national borders; and the place of law in the family.

This course focuses on applications of psychology to the legal system. It provides insights and knowledge about typical themes within legal psychology. Such themes range from how reliable eyewitness testimonies in court are to whether criminals have a brain dysfunction making them permanently dangerous to society, to the role of experts in court. The role of psychologists within these themes is to ask questions that have a direct relevance to the legal arena and to conduct research to address these questions. Through working with cases, students become familiarize with various issues in the field in this course, for example police procedures, legal backgrounds, psychological experiments and the disputes that arise when psychology is applied to the law. Moreover, several small exercises in class are provide the opportunity to get a small taste of which tests and procedures are used by academics and professionals working in the field. Drawing from areas of social, cognitive, developmental, clinical, and neuropsychology this course deal with questions such as: Are all criminals competent to stand trial? How reliable are lie-detector tests? What is the role of expert witnesses in court? What are the dangers of bias in expert testimonies? Prerequisite SSC1005 Introduction to Psychology. Recommended SSC1007 Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning and/or an interest in Law. This is a device free course.