Global Digital Law and Politics

This course aims to provide students with an overview of issues relating to the relationships between digital technologies, politics, and law.

It also introduces students to theoretical frameworks for examining the mutually interactive relationships between technology, law, and social order, where technology is both an object and source of governance.

The course covers contemporary issues such as cyberlaw, digital infrastructures, surveillance, platforms and informational capitalism, datafication, privacy, data protection, the role of platforms in the governance of online speech, intermediary liability, blockchain, and financial technologies.