Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Business, Government & Society

The world has become a more competitive and diverse market place than ever before. Business owners must now be able to develop the necessary skills to successfully navigate such a dynamic environment. The Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning designed this suite of courses to provide business owners with an understanding of the intersection between Business, Government and Society within the online and offline environments in which they operate. The courses were created to provide delegates with theoretical, technical and practical knowledge of the economic, legal, regulatory, political, ethical and societal roles of Business.

Business, Government & Society

From Big Data to Blockchains and AI – the (Legal) Challenges of the Digital Economy

From Big Data to Blockchains and AI – the (Legal) Challenges of the Digital Economy

Overview

The world has become a fast-paced market aided by technology where businesses are now emerging as “online entities”. With the presence of numerous online business, and the associated risks of doing business online, it is essential that business owners who utilize this online market familiarize themselves with the legal aspect of the digital economy to adequately protect their business. This course is designed to give delegates the confidence they need when confronting legal problems of technological origin. It provides theory and technical background to illustrate the complexity of the internet value chain. This then enables students to understand the architecture of the internet and to also comprehend its implications and limitations for business. The course covers the legal landscape of e-commerce against the background of current business trends and developing commercial practices, such as “surveillance capitalism” or the “sharing economy.”

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face

What will I Learn?

On successful completion of the course, delegates will be able to: 
  • Navigate the legal landscape of e-commerce and, on a detailed level, identify the legal problems accompanying recent technological developments, such as AI or blockchains; 
  • Analyze the commercial, legal & regulatory implications of individual Internet technologies and emerging business models; 
  • Identify the main legal problems arising in the use of technology in commercial transactions, especially with regards to transaction automation; 
  • Use arcane acronyms like TCP/IP, PKI, ICO and IoT;  
  • Differentiate between the public and private law aspects of the Internet; 
  • Critically evaluate different brands of cell phone devices; 
  • Critically assess the effectiveness of the Web; 
  • Meaningfully participate in both theoretical and practical discussions on the subject

Who Should do this Course

Persons who operate and online business, those interested in creating an online business, those building a career in law as well as accountants, business analysts, auditors and internal auditors.

At a Glance

  • Admissions Term: 2019/2020 Semester II
  • Date: TBA
  • Time: Mondays to Thursdays, 4pm-7pm
  • Duration: 2.5 weeks (30 hours)
  • Certificate Awarded: Professional Development Certificate of Competence
  • Course Code: PDLL138
  • CEUs: 3
  • Capacity: 25
  • Cost: BDS $3,020 (US $1,510)

The following topics and concepts will be addressed: 
 

  1. Definitions & Technologies – Protocols and Architecture 
  2. Theory – Cyberspace, Generativity, “Code is Law” & “The Law of the Horse” 
  3. The Internet Value Chain: from Infrastructure to Information & Attention 
  4. The Automation of Everything: from Electronic Agents to Intelligent Machines 
  5. Regulatory Framework: Model Laws and local implementations 
  6. Regulatory Framework: EU Directives 
  7. Contractual Framework  
  8. Smart Contracts and Blockchains 
  9. Remote Authentication: Problems of Identity and Anonymity 
  10. Payment Mechanisms: from Paypal to Bitcoin

Final year students, or professionals with a university degree are eligible to enroll in this course.

The course will be delivered face to face. It will take the format of a lecture, followed by class discussions.

Eliza Mik​, PhD

Eliza Mik teaches contract law and the law of e-commerce at the Singapore Management University. She is also a Research Associate at the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society. In parallel with a line of research focused on distributed ledger technologies and smart contracts, she is involved in multiple projects relating to the legal implications of automation, the deployment of ‘intelligent agents’ in retail environments as well as the transactional imbalances created by the use of consumer-facing technologies, such as predictive analytics and AI. Before joining academia, she has worked in-house in a number of software companies, Internet start-ups and telecommunication providers in Australia, Poland, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates. Eliza advised on e-commerce, payment systems, software licensing and technology procurement.