1. K.U.Leuven – Faculty of Law jos.dumortier@law.kuleuven.be http://www.icri.be Master of Laws – ICT LAW

3. founded in 1425 > 28.000 students > 1370 professors > 3450 researchers research expenditure: > 200 million € K.U.Leuven

5. 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

6. ICRI : Research EU FP6 –PRIME –FIDIS –BIOSEC –WALKonWEB

7. ICRI : Research EU FP6 –PRIME –FIDIS –BIOSEC –WALKonWEB –Serenity –(Dyvine) –(BEinGRID)

8. 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)

9. ICRI is a research group of:

11. 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

16. Content Semester 1: Introduction –ICT –IT Law –Communications Law Semester 2: Advanced –ICT (legal informatics – information extraction) –IT Law (practice-oriented) –Communications Law (scenario)

22. 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

23. Evaluation Pro: –one post-graduate programme – bundling of efforts Contra –limited autonomy –less flexibility for (inter)national co-operation

24. Thank you for your kind attention www.icri.be jos.dumortier@law.kuleuven.be