Study Programmes 2015-2016
DROI8031-2  
Introduction to the law of robots and artificial intelligence, Introduction to the law of robots and artificial intelligence
Duration :
15h Th
Number of credits :
Extra courses intended for exchange students (Erasmus, ...)3
Lecturer :
Nicolas Petit
Language(s) of instruction :
English language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
This course will discuss the legal questions related to the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), a matter of intense acuity with technological development and medium-term marketing services. Amongst the numerous examples that may illustrate this trend, the most emblematic is probably the autonomous car without driver, developed by Google. The development of AI raises profound theoretical questions - opportunity of regulation in a context of technological innovation, the level of regulation (international / local), type of control (self-regulation / binding regulatory, etc.), but also practical ones: rights of AI, AI liability, intellectual property of AI, AI uses for non-commercial purposes, etc. Brand new, the course provides an overview of emerging legal issues related to the emergence of AI and robots.
Learning outcomes of the course :
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
The course follows and builfs upon the course of "foreign language in a legal context", which is part of the programm of the first and the second holder of bachelor in law.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
Face to face. Ex-cathedra
Recommended or required readings :
Power Point + Lectures to prepare
Assessment methods and criteria :
Oral examination.
 
Each student will obtain a global mark for the course, wich consists of two separate grades, one for each section of the course, as follows :
- 3/4 of the global mark for the legal part;
- 1/4 of the global mark for the language support part.
A student who obtain a grade equal or lower than 8/20 for one of the two components, is not entitled to obtain more than 9/20 for the global mark.
An exemption for the language support part can be obtained for the second examination session.
No partial exemptions can be obtained for one or the other section of the course, from one year to the next.
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Contacts :
Mr Daniel Muheme : daniel.muheme@ulg.ac.be