LAW 2724 - Global Compliance in the Digital Age
This course will explore and analyze the statutory and regulatory compliance challenges for management of electronic information across industries and national borders. We will analyze various industries, including financial services, health care and the tech sector, and consider the opportunities and challenges presented to legal and compliance professionals from increased business access to information.
An analysis of the compliance network for electronic information requires an understanding of the daily interfaces essential to e-commerce. These include consideration of privacy and data protection notions for personal data. Students will examine a practical framework for analysis of electronic information management from the U.S. and abroad, including health data, financial data and other protected information. They will look at U.S. federal and state information compliance schemes; privacy and data protection approaches in Europe, Asia and South America; how U.S. courts have approached the conflicts of laws dilemma, from the five-factor balancing test of Aerospatiale v. District Court of Iowa in 1987 to the present; trends toward reconciliation of the blurred cyber-borders of international e-commerce with established political boundaries; and collection of electronic evidence from abroad. We also will consider anti-money laundering regulations that are implicated through increased electronic activity in banking and other industries.
The practical effects of how these statutes and cases affect the daily activities of corporations and individuals will be seen in drafting exercises that will include preparation of discovery requests and responses; internal memoranda regarding potential motions to quash and Protective Orders; information governance policies and procedures; and training materials. We also will identify monitoring, testing and control functions that allow businesses to protect themselves from litigation and regulatory matters in this rapidly changing environment.
Prerequisites & Notes
None.
Credits: 2
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