Business Law in a Digital Context 7,5 hp

Undervisningen bedrivs på engelska.

Kursinnehåll

This course introduces students to a broad set of legal rules governing the daily operations of a digital business. It also encourages development of competences necessary to effectively deal with legal matters when developing digital business activities that cross national borders. The course prepares students to deal with the legal challenges and opportunities the digital economy created for companies, individuals and countries.

Connection to Research and Practice

The course is essentially focused on digital intellectual property law and practice, data protection policy, principles of online contract formation, and questions of consumer protection.

The course aims to provide students with a solid foundation on how the law can affect digital business and on how to expand a physical business into the digital realm following all the relevant legal rules.

The practical connections brought into the course will consist in the study and analysis of successful digital business models as well as on cases in which failure to comply with legal standards has led to the failure of potentially successful business models.

Förkunskapskrav

Bachelor’s degree (i.e the equivalent of 180 ECTS credits at an accredited university) with at least 30 credits in Business Administration and 30 credits in one (or a combination) of the following areas: Business Administration, Economics, Industrial Engineering and Management, Business Analytics, Informatics, Information Technology, Communication, Commerce including passed courses of 30 credits of master level studies in Business Administration and/or Informatics (or the equivalent). Proof of English proficiency is required.

Utbildningsnivå: Avancerad nivå
Kurskod/Ladokkod: JBLR27
Kursen ges vid: Jönköping International Business School Last modified 2024-11-22 10:17:45