Civil law and technology
Lecturer: Associate Professor, Dubravka Klasiček, Ph.D.
Assistant:
Study program: Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Studies
Year: fifth year (9th semester)
Status of the course: elective
Type of teaching: lectures
ECTS credits: 6 ECTS
(attendance 1.5 + activity in class 1 + project 3.5)
Course content:
Electronic signature as a way of expressing ones will in electronic communication- Remote conclusion of a contract
- Adhesion contracts and mandatory conclusion of contracts
- E-commerce and liability for defective product
- Privacy and data protection on the Internet
- Inheritance of digital goods
- Wills in the 21st Century
- Protection of intellectual property and the Internet
Course objectives:
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with selected institutes of civil law in regards to digital technology.
The expected learning outcomes:
The student should be able to:
- Identify civil law institutes relevant in digital technology.
- Explain the connection of these institutes with each other.
- Compare Croatian legal solutions with those in comparative law
- Identify problems related to existing legal solutions and practices.
- Propose changes that could occur in the field of civil law institutes relevant in information technology.
General skills that will be acquired after passing the course:
a) general competencies:
- summarizing and identifying key facts and elements;
- systematic and meaningful argumentation of opinion;
- oral and written expression.
b) specific competencies:
- interpretation and differentiation of the basic concepts and institutes;
- recognition and understanding of the possibilities of applying traditional civil law institutes in the digital environment
Type of Teaching: Lectures or consultations and independent work
Student requirements: Regular attendance at lectures, participation in classes, performing assigned tasks.
Forms of assessment: Researching the selected topic and its oral presentation that is based on a written report of the student's choice: it can be in the form of an essay, poster, Power Point presentation etc.)
Literature:
- Darrow, J.J., Ferrera, G.R., Who Owns a Descendant's E-mails: Inheritable Probate Assets or Property of the Network?, NYU Journal of Legislation & Public Policy, vol. 10, 2007.
- Dragičević, D., Gumzej, N., Temeljna prava građana u kontekstu pravne zaštite intelektualnog vlasništa na internetu, Media, Culture and Public Relations, 1/2014.
- Gumzej, N., Zaštita podataka u elektroničkim komunikacijama – doktorska disertacija, Zagreb, 2011.
- Klarić, P. – Vedriš, M.; Građansko pravo, Zagreb, 2008., (odabrana poglavlja)
- Katulić, T., Razvoj pravne regulacije elektroničkog potpisa, elektroničkog certifikata i elektroničke isprave u hrvatskom i poredbenom pravu, Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, 4/2011.
- Klasiček, D.: 21st century wills, Pravni vjesnik, 2/2019.
- Klasiček, D.: Digital inheritance, IMR 2018, Interdisciplinary Management Research XIV /Barković, Dražen ; Crnković, Boris ; Dernoscheg, Karl-Heinz ; Pap, Norbert ; Runzheimer, Bodo ; Wentzel, Dirk (ur.), Opatija: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Economics, 2018.
- Klasiček, D.: What happens to your Gmail and Facebook account after you die?, EDT 2018, Economics of Digital Transformation (research monograph), ed. Drezgić, S.; Žiković, S.; Tomljanović, M., University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics and Business, 2019.
- Klasiček, D., Wills in the digital era, Informatologia, 1-2/2016.
10 Matic T.: Formularni ugovori u elektronickom obliku (Sklapanje ugovora klikom misa –elektronickim ocitovanjem volje putem Interneta na web stranici – clik wrap i browse wrap ugovori),Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, vol. 58, 2008.
- Matić, T., Osnove prava elektroničke trgovine, Zagreb : M.E.P. Consult, 2008.
- Nikšić, S., Elektronički potpis u skladu sa smjernicom 1999/93/EC, Pravo u gospodrstvu, 4/2000.
- Savin A.: EU Internet Law, 2nd ed., Elgar European Law, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2018.
14 Watkins, A, Digital Property and Death: What Will Your Heirs Have Access to After You Die?, Buffalo Law Rewiev, 62/201
Additional literature:
- Klarić, P. – Vedriš, M.; Građansko pravo, Zagreb, 2008., (odabrana poglavlja)
- Uredba (EU) 2016/679 Europskog parlamenta i Vijeća od 27. travnja 2016. o zaštiti pojedinaca u vezi s obradom osobnih podataka i o slobodnom kretanju takvih podataka te o stavljanju izvan snage Direktive 95/46/EZ, (Opća uredba o zaštiti podataka), SL EU L119
- Zakon o elektroničkoj trgovini, Narodne novine, 173/03, 67/08, 36/09, 130/11, 30/14, 32/19
- Zakon o zaštiti potrošača, Narodne novine 41/14, 110/15, 14/19
- Cummings, R., The Case Against Access to Decendents' E-mail: Password Protection as an Exercise of the Right to Destroy, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, 2014.
- Edwards, L., Harbinja, E., Protecting Post-Mortem Privacy: Reconsidering the Privacy Interests of the Deceased in a Digital World, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 1/2013.
- Eichler A.C.: Owning What You Buy: How iTunes Uses Federal Copyright Law to Limit Inheritability of Content, and the Need to Expand the First Sale Doctrine to Include Digital Assets, Houston Business and Tax Law Journal, 16/2016.
- Dragičević, D., Gumzej, N., Obvezno zadržavanje podataka i privatnost, Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, 1/2014.
- Harbinja, E., Does the EU Data Protection Regime Protect Post-Mortem Privacy and What Could Be The Potential Alternatives?, A Journal of Law, Technology and Society, 2013.
- Kim N.S.: Wrap Contracting and the Online Environment: Causes and Cures, Research Handbook on Electronic Commerce Law, Ed. Rothchild, J.A., Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2016.
- Kreiczer-Levy S.: Share, Own, Access, Yale Law & Policy Review, 36/2018.
- Popović, N., Ljubić Karanović, M., Šober Sošić, K., Nepoštene odredbe u općim uvjetima poslovanja operatora na tržištu elektroničkih komunikacija, Hrvatska pravna revija, 7-8/2013.
- Sikirić, H., Mjerodavno pravo za ugovore u elektroničkoj trgovini u hrvatskom i europskom međunarodnom privatnom pravu, Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, posebni broj/2006.
- Tepeš, N., Obvezno sklapanje ugovora, Pravo u gospodarstvu, 1/2017.
- Uzelac, J., Trbojević, G., Adhezijsko sklapanje ugovora s posebnim osvrtom na tumačenje spornih odredbi, Hrvatski savez udruga pravnika u gospodarstvu, 5/2013.
