Technology and Science Law

Course syllabi

Law of the Newest Technologies

144 hours (72 blended/distance). Exam (pass/fail). Semesters 1+2. 1 lecture (2h) + 6 (5 blended, 4 distance) classes each semester. Materials for students.

Module 1 – Specific features of the legal regime of technologies.

1. The legal regime of technologies.
2. Regulation at the current stage. Technological neutrality.
3. Blockchain. Smart contracts.
4. Virtual and augmented reality
5. Combating crime: new methods for new threats.
6. Artificial intelligence. Machine learning.
7. Artificial intelligence. Problems of development and regulation.

Module 2 – Techniques for regulating new technologies.

1. Legal technique of regulation under conditions of new technologies
2. Big data in various spheres of life.
3. Robots. The ethics of robotics.
4. Particle physics.
5. Quantum computing. Regulation and problems of development.
6. CRISPR. The ethics of genomes.
7. Biotechnologies and bioethics.

IP Protection in Science and Technology

144 hours. 1 lecture + 4 (3 blended) classes (2h+8(6)h) each semester.

Module 1 – Protection of IP in science and technology at the current stage

1. Existing regulation of IP protection in science and technology — lecture
2. Specific features of protecting text-based works.
3. Patents and the specifics of the patenting regime.
4. Protection of ideas, algorithms, methods.

Module 2 – Problems in the development of IP regulation in science and technology

1. Problems of IP protection in science and technology — lecture
2. Scientific discoveries
3. Results of research and experiments
4. Know-how.
5. Pseudoscience and abuse of IP protection institutions.

Information Technology Law

108 hours. Semester 3. 1 lecture + 7 (6 blended, 5 distance) seminars.

Module 1 –

1. Modern information technology law — lecture
2. Institutions regulating IT. Technological neutrality.
3. Information intermediaries: status and activities
4. Telecommunications
5. Computer software
6. Databases
7. Protection of rights and abuse in the sphere of information technology
8. Problems of law enforcement and legislative development in the sphere of IT

Biotechnology Law

108 hours. Semester 3. 1 lecture + 7 (6 blended, 5 distance) seminars.

Module 1 –

1. Somatic human rights
2. Bioethics
3. The human body and organs as a subject of regulation
4. Genes, genomes and related subjects of regulation
5. Regulation with respect to plants and animals
6. Medicine and pharmaceutics
7. Biotechnologies in particular spheres of public life
8. Problems in the development of biotechnology regulation

Legal Regulation of Scientific Information and Communications

108 hours. Semester 3. 1 lecture + 7 (6 blended, 5 distance) seminars.

Module 1 –

1. Status of information, the concept
2. Regimes of information
3. Communications as the transfer of information, status
4. Secrets in private life and certain spheres of public life
5. Access to information
6. Liability in the information sphere
7. Law-enforcement practice in the information sphere
8. Problems in the development of legislation on scientific information and communications

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