這門課由 Dr. Mark Leiser授課，老實說，我對他評價很奇妙，可以先看以下我的說明跟大綱。我不知道自己學了甚麼，也不知道自己沒學甚麼，但我不會否認老師很認真，可能就是頻率對不上。

授課大綱點這。

收穫度：★★☆☆☆
負重比：★★☆☆☆

Dr. Leiser的課是少數沒有考試的課程，全部都是報告。這堂課要撰寫一份模擬案例的起訴書給歐洲人權法院，占比如下：

  • Legal Brief – 35%：個人獨立評分
  • Presentation – 35%：團體評分
  • Interventions – 20%：個人獨立評分
  • Reflective Diary – 10%：個人獨立評分

那授課大綱老師把它分成20個小時，每個小時都有Topic。

授課大綱如下，但是必讀文獻我就不提供了，因為我覺得每學期都在變。

Week One: Introduction to Course and Disruptive Technologies

  • Lecture One: Course Overview
    • Intro to class and intro to disruptive technologies
  • Lecture Two: Introduction to Fundamental and Human Rights 
    • What are fundamental rights?
    • What is meant by ‘disruptive technologies’?
    • Balancing rights with digital innovation
    • Institutions for determining the balance between FR and DT
    • What exactly are the FRs we are talking about here? (Privacy, integrity, expression, fair trial, right to operate a business, security, right-to-life, mental integrity, etc.)
  • Lecture Three: Understanding Digital Technology in the context of European Law
    • Principles of European Law
      • Positive and Negative Obligations
      • Vertical and Horizontal Effect
      • The Margin of Appreciation Doctrine
    • Understanding the Justification of Restrictions
      • Lawfulness
      • Legitimate Aim
      • Necessity, Proportionality, and Fair Balance
  • Lecture Four: Case Study
    • The case of classroom surveillance (Students must read Antovic & Mirkovic v Montenegro (application no. 70838/13) of the European Court of Human Rights (2018) before coming to class, Available here)

Week Two: The Threat to Fundamental Rights by the Internet of Things

  • Lecture Five: Challenges to FR in the Age of Big Data
    • What is the Internet of Things? 
    • Tracking and its Consequences
    • Introducing the e-Privacy Directive and the regulation of private communications and tracking software
  • Lecture Six: Ambient Computing 
    • Defining ambient computing
    • Mapping the legal issuesarising from ambient computing. 
    • Analyzing the legal framework for Ambient Computing. 
    • Problem Solving and an analysis of Article 5(3) of the e-Privacy Directive
  • Lecture Seven:  Is my phone listening to me? Algorithmic profiling & targeted advertising  
    • Explaining the Advertising Ecosystem
    • Location Data as a business model
    • Regulating Location Data
  • Lecture Eight:  Algorithmic Profiling and Targeted Advertising
    • Profiling and Scoring in the legal context of the GDPR. 
    • Profiling vs Automated Decision Making
    • An Analysis of Article 22 GDPR
    • Bringing it all together: GDPR, e-Privacy and Cookie Blocking
    • Profiling and Automated Decision Making

Week Three: State Surveillance: Balancing right to liberty & security w/ Privacy & other FRs

  • Lecture Nine: Introduction to State Surveillance
    • State Surveillance (Academic Journals, Soft Sources)
  • Lecture Ten: State Surveillance – Interception Law
    • Interception (Case Law, Directives)
  • Lecture Eleven: State Surveillance – Data Retention Obligations
    • Retention (Case Law, Directives)
  • Lecture Twelve: State Surveillance: Recent Developments – The end of Privacy Spring?
  • C-623/17: Privacy International & C511,512,520/18: La Quadrature du Net 
  • Manipulation (Soft sources, Leiser’s article on the topic)

Week Four: Content Regulation

  • Lecture Thirteen: Content Regulation
    • Theories of expression (Lecture)
  • Lecture Fourteen: Frameworks for the protection of speech in the European Union 
    • Regulating Speech and Expression in the European Union
  • Lecture Fifteen: Private actors, gatekeepers, and controlling the flow of information
    • Laidlaw, Klonick Papers
  • Lecture Sixteen: Controlling Illegal Content
    • terrorism, obscenity, disinformation, etc.  

Week Five: Advanced Technologies and Fundamental Rights

  • Lecture Seventeen: Contact Tracing & Regulating data flows in a public health emergency
    • The selfishness of European Data protection law
  • Lecture Eighteen: Genetics and Group Privacy
    • The limits of the GDPR
  • Lecture Nineteen:  The threat to FRs from AI
    • What do we do when the AI says it is not subjected to HR law?
  • Lecture Twenty: Assessment Preparedness

誠如前一篇所說，老師是蘇格蘭人，對於case law(判例法)有莫名的堅持。我記得在第一堂課還是第二堂課的時候，他問同學對於某個案例的個人意見，每個人都提出自己的意見，但是直到有一個同學說因為歐洲人權法院怎樣怎樣的時候，他才說那是他要的答案。我頓時覺得很怪，你要大家提出自己的想法，卻是要問歐洲人權法院的想法。的確，在討論基本權的時候，法院如何解釋基本權很重要。他也說；「我不在意某個部落客怎麼講，或是某個新聞怎麼說(但他指定文獻有新聞)，我在意法院判決跟政策文件」我覺得基於他的背景跟專業，是可以理解的。然後他一開始說如果你只看他投影片或上完課滿頭問號那他的目的就達到了。好喔。

你可以看到課程大綱有很多主題，老師準備的投影片很豐富。但有時候老師上課講話會變成murmur，然後念投影片上的ECtHR文字，只要是這樣的情況我就會開始恍神做自己的事情。但如果他拋出的問題你跟他討論，會很有意義。而且他也會在Slack群組上不斷拋出新的議題讓大家看，他很認真。

再來是準備Legal Brief的部分。他說「既是團隊合作，也是個人作業」每個人要寫大約3000字的文件，他會指定給每組一個立場。然後在模擬法庭的時候會三十分鐘陳述，十分鐘詢問。三十分鐘陳述可以是一個人代表整組報告，也可以是每個人分別報告，但是這塊每組成員的分數會相同。十分鐘詢問的時候會分別詢問每個人，這部分是獨立評分。

我自己覺得報告不難寫，但是要寫在三千字上下有難度，而且我被分配到的是先決問題，我覺得不在老師要求的範圍內，大概分數會很低吧。

最後修改日期: 2021-11-30

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