It provides an overview of the practical implications of law, their theoretical underpinnings and how they affect the study and construction of computational architectures.

• Acknowledgements Reading Guide Abbreviations Table of Contents 1: Introduction: Textbook and Essay 1.1: Middle ground: architecture 1.2: Law in 'speakerspace' 1.3: Law in 'manuscriptspace' 1.4: Law in 'bookspace' 1.5: Law in cyberspace: a new 'onlife world' 1.6: Outline PART I WHAT LAW DOES 2: Law, Democracy, and the Rule of Law 2.1: What is Law? 2.2: What is law in a constitutional democracy? 3: Domains of Law: Private, Public, and Criminal Law 3.1: Private, public and criminal law: conceptual distinctions 3.2: Private law 3.3: Public law and criminal law 4: International and Supranational Law 4.1: Jurisdiction in Western legal systems 4.2: International law 4.3: Supranational law 4.4: International rule of law PART II DOMAINS OF CYBERLAW 5: Privacy and Data Protection 5.1: Human rights law 5.2: The concept of privacy 5.3: The right to privacy 5.4: Privacy and Data Protection 5.5: Data protection law 5.6: Privacy and data protection revisited 6: Cybercrime 6.1: The problem of cybercrime 6.2: Cybercrime and public law 6.3: The EU cybercrime and cybersecurity directives 7: Copyright in Cyberspace 7.1: IP law as private law 7.2: Overview of IP rights 7.3: History, objectives and scope of copyright protection 7.4: EU copyright law 7.5: Open source and free access 8: Private Law Liability for Faulty ICT 8.1: Back to basics 8.2: Tort law in Europe 8.3: Third-party liability for unlawful processing and other cyber torts PART III FRONTIERS OF LAW IN AN ONLIFE WORLD 9: Legal Personhood for AI? 9.1: Legal subjectivity 9.2: Legal agency 9.3: Artificial agents 9.4: Private law liability 10: 'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'? 10.1: Machine learning (ML) 10.2: Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), smart contracts and smart regulation 10.3: 'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'? FINALS 11: Closure: on ethics, code and law 11.1: Distinctions between law, code and ethics 11.2: The conceptual relationship between law, code and ethics 11.3: The interaction between law, code and ethics 11.4: Closure: the force of technology and the force of law

It provides an overview of the practical implications of law, their theoretical underpinnings and how they affect the study and construction of computational architectures.

• Acknowledgements Reading Guide Abbreviations Table of Contents 1: Introduction: Textbook and Essay 1.1: Middle ground: architecture 1.2: Law in 'speakerspace' 1.3: Law in 'manuscriptspace' 1.4: Law in 'bookspace' 1.5: Law in cyberspace: a new 'onlife world' 1.6: Outline PART I WHAT LAW DOES 2: Law, Democracy, and the Rule of Law 2.1: What is Law? 2.2: What is law in a constitutional democracy? 3: Domains of Law: Private, Public, and Criminal Law 3.1: Private, public and criminal law: conceptual distinctions 3.2: Private law 3.3: Public law and criminal law 4: International and Supranational Law 4.1: Jurisdiction in Western legal systems 4.2: International law 4.3: Supranational law 4.4: International rule of law PART II DOMAINS OF CYBERLAW 5: Privacy and Data Protection 5.1: Human rights law 5.2: The concept of privacy 5.3: The right to privacy 5.4: Privacy and Data Protection 5.5: Data protection law 5.6: Privacy and data protection revisited 6: Cybercrime 6.1: The problem of cybercrime 6.2: Cybercrime and public law 6.3: The EU cybercrime and cybersecurity directives 7: Copyright in Cyberspace 7.1: IP law as private law 7.2: Overview of IP rights 7.3: History, objectives and scope of copyright protection 7.4: EU copyright law 7.5: Open source and free access 8: Private Law Liability for Faulty ICT 8.1: Back to basics 8.2: Tort law in Europe 8.3: Third-party liability for unlawful processing and other cyber torts PART III FRONTIERS OF LAW IN AN ONLIFE WORLD 9: Legal Personhood for AI? 9.1: Legal subjectivity 9.2: Legal agency 9.3: Artificial agents 9.4: Private law liability 10: 'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'? 10.1: Machine learning (ML) 10.2: Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), smart contracts and smart regulation 10.3: 'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'? FINALS 11: Closure: on ethics, code and law 11.1: Distinctions between law, code and ethics 11.2: The conceptual relationship between law, code and ethics 11.3: The interaction between law, code and ethics 11.4: Closure: the force of technology and the force of law

It provides an overview of the practical implications of law, their theoretical underpinnings and how they affect the study and construction of computational architectures.

• Acknowledgements Reading Guide Abbreviations Table of Contents 1: Introduction: Textbook and Essay 1.1: Middle ground: architecture 1.2: Law in 'speakerspace' 1.3: Law in 'manuscriptspace' 1.4: Law in 'bookspace' 1.5: Law in cyberspace: a new 'onlife world' 1.6: Outline PART I WHAT LAW DOES 2: Law, Democracy, and the Rule of Law 2.1: What is Law? 2.2: What is law in a constitutional democracy? 3: Domains of Law: Private, Public, and Criminal Law 3.1: Private, public and criminal law: conceptual distinctions 3.2: Private law 3.3: Public law and criminal law 4: International and Supranational Law 4.1: Jurisdiction in Western legal systems 4.2: International law 4.3: Supranational law 4.4: International rule of law PART II DOMAINS OF CYBERLAW 5: Privacy and Data Protection 5.1: Human rights law 5.2: The concept of privacy 5.3: The right to privacy 5.4: Privacy and Data Protection 5.5: Data protection law 5.6: Privacy and data protection revisited 6: Cybercrime 6.1: The problem of cybercrime 6.2: Cybercrime and public law 6.3: The EU cybercrime and cybersecurity directives 7: Copyright in Cyberspace 7.1: IP law as private law 7.2: Overview of IP rights 7.3: History, objectives and scope of copyright protection 7.4: EU copyright law 7.5: Open source and free access 8: Private Law Liability for Faulty ICT 8.1: Back to basics 8.2: Tort law in Europe 8.3: Third-party liability for unlawful processing and other cyber torts PART III FRONTIERS OF LAW IN AN ONLIFE WORLD 9: Legal Personhood for AI? 9.1: Legal subjectivity 9.2: Legal agency 9.3: Artificial agents 9.4: Private law liability 10: 'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'? 10.1: Machine learning (ML) 10.2: Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs), smart contracts and smart regulation 10.3: 'Legal by Design' or 'Legal Protection by Design'? FINALS 11: Closure: on ethics, code and law 11.1: Distinctions between law, code and ethics 11.2: The conceptual relationship between law, code and ethics 11.3: The interaction between law, code and ethics 11.4: Closure: the force of technology and the force of law