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Human Rights in Digital Age

The aim:
1. The student learns about the human rights system.
2. The student becomes familiar with the specifics of new technologies.
3. The student analyzes the impact of new technologies on human rights.
4. The student learns about human rights case law in the context of technological challenges.

Acquired knowledge:
1. Knowledge of fundamental human rights and international instruments for their protection, as well as the specifics of new technologies

Acquired skills:
1. Ability to determine the relationship between the development of new technologies and human rights

Acquired social skills:
1. Competencies for assessing the impact of new technologies on human rights

Course contents: 
1. The notion and legal framework of human rights
2. Technological challenges to human rights
3. Right to privacy and data protection in the digital age
4. Freedom of expression and access to information in the digital environment
5. Artificial intelligence’s impact on human rights
6. Right to court in the context of informatisation
7. Human rights and the development of new technologies in medicine
8. Human dignity as a normative ground for human rights
9. Analysis of the European Court of Human Rights’ case-law regarding new technologies

Recommended reading: 
1. The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law, ed. D. Shelton, Oxford University Press. Oxford 2013
2. International Human Rights Law, K. Orzeszyna, M. Skwarzyński, R. Tabaszewski, transl. P. Gumola, Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck. Warszawa 2023

Additional reading: 
1. The Legal Nature of International Human Rights, M.K. Addo, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Leiden–Boston 2010
2. New Technologies and Human Rights: Challenges to Regulation, eds. N.N. Gomes de Andrade, M. Viola de Azevedo Cunha, L. Lixinski, L. Tomé Féteira, Ashgate Publishing. Farnham 2013