DPITSDZ Doctoral state examination

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. Type of Completion: SDzk (final examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Ing. Josef Šilhán, Ph.D.
Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Ing. Lucie Melišová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
In order to take the state exam, it is required to fulfill all studz requirements of the doctoral programe Law of Information and Communication Technologies.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The purpose of the exam is to verify the compliance of doctoral thesis with legal requirements and to proof required level of knowledge of the applicant in ICT law, all pursuant to the Higher Education Act.
Learning outcomes
The outcome shall be the evaluation of doctoral thesis, the evaluation of oral exam and overall result of the state exam.
Syllabus
  • Concept of virtuslisation, concept of actualisation
  • Concept of information, concept or organisation, law as information system
  • Territoriality of law and information sovereignty of state
  • Positivist, pragmatic and naturalist methodology of ICT law
  • Formalisation of law and recent issues in legal informatics
  • Algorithmic application of law
  • Virtualisation in promulgation of law
  • Code as normative utterance of definition authorities and its relation to black-letter law
  • Regulatory structure of the Internet
  • Freedom of information and its presence in applicable law
  • Free speech and its protection by positive law (incl. international comparison)
  • Regulatory phenomenon of domain names
  • Subjects in ICT law, legal existence of autonomous systems
  • Informational self-determination
  • Privacy protection through instruments of private law
  • Personal data and legal means of their protection
  • Legal regulatory framework of cross-border data transactions (personal data, scientific data, intellectual property etc.)
  • Non-distributive information rights
  • Concept and structure of cybersecurity, recent regulatory approaches
  • Cybersecurity incident and use of force (incl. attributability)
  • Information feudalism and information anarchism
  • Economic relevance of data and protection of their value
  • Abuse of IP, abuse of market dominance in ICT
  • Free movement of goods and services in information society (common market)
  • Phenomenon of electronic documents and recent regulatory solutions (eID, signatures and their derivates)
  • Informational analysis of legal processes
  • Virtualisation of court and administrative procedures
  • Virtualisation of arbitration and new forms of dispute resolution (private ODR)
  • Legal regulation of autonomous robots
Literature
  • Literaturou ke zkoušce je souhrn literatury v profilových kursech.
Teaching methods
This course does not include any teaching. It is meant as an administrative unit for credit evaluation of the state exam.
Assessment methods
The state exam consists of a defence of doctoral thesis and an oral exam. Doctoral thesis is defended in front of a standing committee or an ad hoc committee. The applicant makes an oral statement about his or her research, the thesis and its conclusions. The applicant's statement is then followed with a discussion based on evaluation reports and questions of the members of the committee. Regular time of the defence is approx. 60 min. The oral exam is taken in front of a standing committee or an ad hoc committee. The exam consists of answers to questions directly asked by committee members. Regular time of the oral exam is approx. 60 min.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Nutnost splnění předmětů 1 až 6 semestru (včetně) dle studijního plánu
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024.
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