Digital Technologies Law Program – DTD

Delivered by Santiago Gini

Course objectives:

• To introduce digital technologies law based on the concepts of neutrality and convergence.
• To deal with the legal issues of Internet intermediaries.
• To analyze online contracts issues.
• To understand the convergence from a corporate vision and from the current tax framework.

Delivered by Óscar González

Course objectives:

• To address the main aspects related to network infrastructure regulations as a key element of convergent communication services and Internet.
• To make a distinction between network infrastructure regulation and the contents and applications that are part of convergent communications and Internet.
• To recognize the main basic concepts of regulation, to briefly review its historic developments as well as the new trends and challenges brought up by the Internet on this subject.
• To analyze some specific instruments of network infrastructure regulation, in particular, their scarce resources, the relations among service providers and among providers and consumers.

Delivered by Santiago Mora

Course objectives:

• To learn and understand the new scenarios, the new businesses, and the new formulations of already existing businesses that have been springing up thanks to the financial innovation over the last years.
• To study the risks and conflicts arising from the financial innovation in each business scheme.
• To identify and distinguish the reactions of law to this new context, both in the local sphere and in the international sphere.
• To simulate several of the scenarios and conflicts that have arisen, as well as several procedures established by law in relation to the issues analyzed.
• To criticize the position adopted by law and to propose alternative views.

Delivered by Daniela Dupuy

The course tackles the phenomenon of virtual crime, the applicable legislation, the difficulties arising during research, the need for legislative modifications, as well as the reactive and proactive measures to fight this kind of crimes. The human factor and the role of different sectors, both public and private throughout the whole program, will also be analyzed in order to spark the debate on the best practices for the use of information and communications technologies (TIC).

In addition to the domestic and international criminal legal framework related to cybercrime, the course will cover the technological concepts used nowadays which are related to the controls and audits that should be conducted from a cybersecurity perspective. On the other hand, it will analyze topics related to digital evidence and electronic proof in criminal proceedings together with the scope of the forensic analysis and the records that can be obtained from both public and private Internet service providers.

Delivered by Micaela Mantegna, Paula Siverino Bavio and Natalia Monti

Course objectives:

• To prepare students for the future and imminent paradigm shift, presenting the main problems and opportunities that are foreseen in the development of machine intelligence technologies, and the impact of this change on the economy and society.
• To familiarize students with fundamental concepts of bioethics and law applied to technology, related to the interdisciplinary analysis of neurotechnologies and their impact on society.
• To promote critical and reflective thinking on the axes of tension between innovation, protection and regulation of neurotechnologies.

Delivered by Santiago Gini

The course introduces intellectual property, its new challenges and a brief historic review; copyrights; trademark law; domain names and technical aspects; the recent European Union regulation, among other relevant topics on this matter.

Delivered by Fernanda Viecens

The objective of the course is to introduce the tools of economic analysis applied to competition law and policy. This will allow the development of a critical perspective of merger cases and anti-competitive behavior in Argentina, the region and globally.

Part of the course is devoted to the current debate taking place in the international sphere on major players in the digital economy.

Delivered by Marcela Pallero, Jorge Litvin and guests

The objective of the course is to introduce the problem of cybersecurity from a technological perspective, processes in both private and public organizations, and its legal, economic and geopolitical aspects.

Among several relevant topics, the course will deal with:

• Different perspectives of cybersecurity.
• The origin of the problems associated with it from a technological perspective.
• The international assessment models for countries.
• The relevance of the “Response to incidents”.
• Prevention from national and international regulation on data protection. – The possibility to have an insurance.
• Practical cases of technology use to know what happened in an incident.