K.U.Leuven – Faculty of Law

jos.dumortier@law.kuleuven.be

http://www.icri.be

Master of Laws – ICT LAW

• founded in 1425

• > 28.000 students• > 1370 professors• > 3450 researchers

• research expenditure:> 200 million €

K.U.Leuven

ICRI : Overview

• founded in 1990• 3 academic staff / 25 researchers / 3 admin

• since 2004 part of IBBT (Institute for BroadBand Technology)

• focusing on:– legal issues of ICT and information security– privacy and identity management– security in e-business and e-government– law and standardization

ICRI : Research

• EU FP6– PRIME– FIDIS– BIOSEC– WALKonWEB

ICRI : Research

• EU FP6– PRIME– FIDIS– BIOSEC– WALKonWEB– Serenity– (Dyvine)– (BEinGRID)

ICRI : Research

• Other EU Projects

– ELSIGN• Preparatory Report• Review of the Directive

– EESSI• Signature Policies• Trusted Archival Services• ...

– MODINIS (eGovernment)• Lot 3 : Identity Management

– ELDOC (electronic documents)

ICRI is a research group of:

Course offering

• Bachelor:– fundamental concepts of ICT (in Dutch): 60 hrs, 1st

semester

• Master– ICT law in Belgium (in Dutch, open for all faculties):

45 hrs, 2nd semester– Seminar “Law and ICT”

• Postgraduate programme : see following slides

Content

• Semester 1: Introduction– ICT– IT Law– Communications Law

• Semester 2: Advanced– ICT (legal informatics – information extraction)– IT Law (practice-oriented)– Communications Law (scenario)

In practice

• classes of about 15-20 students– master of laws– external students– eulisp exchange students

• majority takes (per semester) – 3 ICT-related courses (obligatory)– 2 or 3 IPR-related courses– 2 or 3 courses in EU of international business law

Evaluation

• Pro: – one post-graduate programme – bundling of

efforts

• Contra– limited autonomy – less flexibility for (inter)national co-operation

Thank you for your kind attention

www.icri.bejos.dumortier@law.kuleuven.be