Acknowledgements
Reading Guide
Abbreviations
Table of Contents
1:Introduction: Textbook and Essay
1.1:Middle ground: architecture
1.2:Law in 'speakerspace'
1.3:Law in 'manuscriptspace'
1.4:Law in 'bookspace'
1.5:Law in cyberspace: a new 'onlife world'
1.6:Outline
PART I WHAT LAW DOES
2.:Law, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
2.1:What is Law?
2.2:What is law in a constitutional democracy?
3.:Domains of Law: Private, Public, and Criminal Law
3.1:Private, public and criminal law: conceptual distinctions
3.2:Private law
3.3:Public law and criminal law
4.:International and Supranational Law
4.1:Jurisdiction in Western legal systems
4.2:International law
4.3:Supranational law
4.4:International rule of law
PART II DOMAINS OF CYBERLAW
5.:Privacy and Data Protection
5.1:Human rights law
5.2:The concept of privacy
5.3:The right to privacy
5.4:Privacy and Data Protection
5.5:Data protection law
5.6:Privacy and data protection revisited
6.:Cybercrime
6.1:The problem of cybercrime
6.2:Cybercrime and public law
6.3:The EU cybercrime and cybersecurity directives
7.:Copyright in Cyberspace
7.1:IP law as private law
7.2:Overview of IP rights
7.3:History, objectives and scope of copyright protection
7.4:EU copyright law
7.5:Open source and free access
8.:Private Law Liability for Faulty ICT
8.1:Back to basics
8.2:Tort law in Europe
8.3:Third-party liability for unlawful processing and other cyber torts
PART III FRONTIERS OF LAW IN AN ONLIFE WORLD
9.:Legal Personhood for AI?
9.1:Legal subjectivity
9.2:Legal agency
9.3:Artificial agents
9.4:Private law liability
10.:'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'?
10.1:Machine learning (ML)
10.2:Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), smart contracts and smart regulation
10.3:'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'?
FINALS
11.:Closure: on ethics, code and law
11.1:Distinctions between law, code and ethics
11.2:The conceptual relationship between law, code and ethics
11.3:The interaction between law, code and ethics
11.4:Closure: the force of technology and the force of law