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Gain the skills to critically analyze and navigate the changing legal environment that’s shaping data law and policy.
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Through a socio-legal lens, you’ll engage critically with topical case studies and current data regulations, and gain insight into the legal challenges posed by digitization. Developed by leading academics from LSE’s Law School, the content draws on the strengths of the school’s innovative research and academic excellence to immerse you in pressing legal debates in data protection and algorithmic regulation. By the end of this online course, you’ll have gained the skills to think critically about the relationship between technology, policy, and the law. You’ll also walk away with a better understanding of the issues of digital data ownership and exploitation.
This course is aimed at professionals looking to explore the global data protection concerns driving new internet and technology regulations. It’s designed to be open and applicable to people from various geographical or jurisdictional contexts eager to understand the core legal concepts and debates around data law and regulation, as well as data-driven decision making. Offering practical applications for both legal and business professionals, this course is relevant to business leaders, data analysts, and information technologists looking to gain expert perspectives on this current and critical issue. For legal consultants, public policy specialists, and law graduates, the course offers the opportunity to grow your knowledge in tech-driven policymaking, data privacy and protection, and data regulation issues.
Study the key principles underlying a new legal regime for data ownership as you work through the weekly modules of this online certificate course.
Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus
Section I : Datafication and the law
Module 1: Digitization and its challenges for regulation
Module 2: Data as an asset, data as a right
Section II: Regulation of and by algorithms
Module 3: Algorithmic regulation
Module 4: Algorithmic profiling under the GDPR
Section III: Rethinking data governance
Module 5: Property rights in data
Module 6: Dominance and data
Examine the function of law in the digital realm and earn an official certificate of competence from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
The percentage of consumers who will only purchase from companies that have a reputation of protecting their customers’ data.
McKinsey& Company (2022).
The expected size of data protection as a service market by 2028.
Mordor Intelligence LLP (Feb, 2024).
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