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Jean Monnet Module: EU Data Law (D-Law)

The digital revolution and technologies are transforming the economy and social relations, posing unprecedented policy and regulatory challenges, and undermining existing legal frameworks and principles. They present opportunities and risks for the EU economy, market players, and citizens. Fundamental rights and other economic rights are involved. The policy and legal themes posed by digitalisation are multiple. D-Law concentrates on data and their multi-faceted regulation. Data fuel all the data-driven technologies that not only are powering digital markets but are also the key drivers of innovation and economic growth. The EU is witnessing the evolution of data regulation from the need to protect personal data to regulate access to, and sharing of, both personal and non-personal data. This area of law has been transformed from ‘Data Protection Law’ to ‘Data Law’ to express the evolution of a significant regulatory expansion in the scope of data and data governance. The Module aims to give support, visibility, and enhanced impact to the teaching and other activities in this critical area of EU integration. It aims at achieving the following core objectives: delivering excellence in teaching and preparing future generations across diverse non-law academic disciplines for the regulatory and ethical challenges concerning data; producing high-quality open educational resources; establishing collaborative research and cross-fertilisation on well-identified issues surrounding datafication and data-driven technologies; publishing open-access articles, contributing to the policy debate and a deeper understanding of the socio-economic and legal principles of EU integration in the digital sphere; enhancing understanding, exploitation, and strategies surrounding datafication and its multi-faceted regulation among young generations; engaging with other academics on research, teaching, and dissemination; informing civil society, professionals, policy-making and the judiciary.


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