Postgraduate Course LAW AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

1. Postgraduate CourseLAW AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Facultad de Derecho Universidad de Valladolid España

2. Technological aspects of the computer engineering and Law • Services, infrastructure and safety of applications in network. • Cryptography: essentials and basic protocols. • Web or juridical applications. • Electronic administration: models and processes

3. Constitutional Rights and New Technologies • Electronic democracy. • The fundamental right to the «computer freedom». • Privacy and secret of the communications and new technologies. • Biotechnology and dignity of the person.

4. The Public Administration before the New Technologies • Legal regulation of the telecommunications. • Electronic administration: Digital procedure.

5. Globalization in the regulation of the Information Society • The international regulation on the subject of names of domain (ICANN/OMPI). • The norms of international arbitration in the disputes between marks and names of domain (UDRP Rules). • International regulation on the subject of international property: the global harmonization under the agreements TRIPS (WTO). • Cooperation and international regulation against “computer paradise” (Decisions UE/Convention on Cybercrime. European Council 23/11/2000).

6. Electronic contract and protection of consumers • Consumers electronic contract • Electronic direct commerce and electronic indirect commerce. • Contractual forms. • Perfection of the contract. • Electronic contract. • Legal regulation diet of the electronic contract. • Electronic contract with general conditions. • Duty of information and the consequences of his nonperformance. • Desisting and solving of the contract.

7. Company, New Technologies and the Information Society • Electronic contract between businessmen. • Electronic contract 7and industrial property. • Electronic company law. • Electronic payment Systems. • Databases. • Contract of financial services.

8. Cross-border aspects of the electronic commerce • International commerce legal regulations and electronic commerce. • European Union Regulations on electronic commerce. • Law and jurisdiction. • The mercantile cross-border relationship in the electronic commerce.

9. Labour Law and New Technologies • Work and Law in the information society. • The new organization of the work. • New technologies and labour relationship: Dependency and autonomy. • Management and new technological context. • New dimensions of management: use and control of computers, Internet and e-mail. • Technological rights.

10. Tax system and New Technologies • Tax system and electronic commerce. • Taxation electronic administration. • Tax incentives and new technologies.

11. Penal Responsibility for crimes committed by computer means and on the Internet • Crimes on the Internet: Introduction. • Penal tutelage of the Computer Privacy. • Computer crimes as punishable facts against the patrimony and the socioeconomic order.

12. Administration of Justice and New Technologies • Spanish Court’s jurisdiction. • Technological infrastructures in the administration of the Justice. • Electronic communications and documentation. • Technological means and investigation of the crimes: search and seizure. • Technological evidence: records and electronic document. • International cooperation and exchange of information. • Other technological instruments.