- Department: The York Law School
- Credit value: 10 ECTS
- Credit level: H
- Academic year of delivery: 2024-25
This module introduces you to the emerging world of AI and law. It will encourage you to think creatively about AI, consider it in a variety of legal contexts, and engage with these ideas in practical scenarios.
None required.
Pre-requisite modules
Co-requisite modules
- None
Prohibited combinations
- None
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Semester 2 2024-25 |
The overall objective of this module is to help you understand how various areas of law apply to and regulate AI. The module will very much adopt a practical approach with an academic underpinning. It is designed to:
When you have completed this module you should be able to demonstrate:
Please find below a provisional overview of what each week covers:
Week 1: Lecture 1: Introduction to AI and the Law
Week 2: PBL Session 1: AI and Legal Personhood: Revisiting Roman Times (Law of Slavery)
Week 3: Lecture 2: AI and the Law of Obligations
Week 4: PBL Session 2: Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and Liability: the Robotaxi Case
Week 5: PBL Session 3: Self-Driving Contracts
Week 6: First summative assessment
Week 7: Lecture 3: AI and IP law
Week 8: PBL session 4: Chatbots and Copyright Law: Robo-journalism on the Rise
Week 9: Lecture 4: Sales Law and Smart Technology
Week 10: PBL session 5: AI and Financial Regulation and Intermediaries
Week 11: PBL session 6: AI and Corporate Law: Robots in the Boardroom?
Weeks 13-15: Second summative assessment
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 30 |
Essay/coursework | 70 |
None
The first essay will be on a topic covered in weeks 1-5.
The second essay will allow a choice between three questions based on the topics covered in weeks 7-11.
This will be reflected in both reassessments.
Task | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework | 30 |
Essay/coursework | 70 |
Mark and personalised written feedback on summative assessments. Continuous feedback available in sessions on formative work.
Feedback will be provided within the Policy Turnaround Time.
Ugo Pagallo, The Laws of Robots. Crimes, Contracts, and Torts (Springer 2013).
Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press 2024).
Phillip Morgan (ed), Tort Liability and Autonomous Systems Accidents. Common and Civil Law Perspectives (Edward Elgar 2023).
Ryan Abott (ed), Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar 2022).
Nydia Remolina and Aurelio Gurrea-Martinez (eds), Artificial Intelligence in Finance. Challenges, Opportunities and Regulatory Developments (Edward Elgar 2023).
M Hildebrandt, Smart Technologies and the End(s) of Law. Novel Entanglements of Law and Technology (Edward Elgar 2015).