3 ECTS
This course is designed as a comprehensive foundation course introducing and explaining the key concepts of banking and financial markets and covering regulatory, supervisory and transactional areas from Latvian and European perspective providing an insight into the interaction between financial law and business practice. While an emphasis is placed on a step-by-step review of each subject-matter, the theoretical part is supplemented with practical exercises enabling students to strengthen their legal skills in selecting, interpreting and applying respective legal acts and norms.
- Teacher: Jaroslaw Beldowski
3ECTS
The course offers a combination of criminological and socio-legal analysis of cybercrime together with a wider understanding of important cybersecurity issues. Initially, the course will focus on cybercrime and will provide an in depth understanding of the different types of cybercrime and online deviance from hacking and hacktivism to cyberstalking, online fraud and online piracy. During these sessions, we will discuss cybercriminal practices and techniques, relevant legal developments and practical challenges in terms of dealing with these crimes. Moreover, the course will look at the practical and ethical principles relating to digital forensic investigations that relate to the uncovering and prosecuting of cybercrimes and other crimes involving digital evidence.
Subsequently the course will focus on important cybersecurity issues such as organisational risk management and incident response mechanisms and will also offer an analysis of the phenomenon of cyberwarfare, which is has generated heated discussions in terms of attribution of cyberattacks and also regarding the mitigation of the impact of such attacks. Finally, the course will close with a forward-looking overview of the future of digital crime, as it will be facilitated by the development of the Internet of Things, where extensive interconnectivity of a multitude of device and the immediate processing of huge amounts of data will change the ways crime is committed and policed.
- Teacher: Paul Michael Gilmour
- Teacher: Vasileios Karagiannopoulos