Description:
Cybersecurity and Cybercrime (4 units)A Law School is seeking an adjunct lecturer to teach an undergraduate law class, Cybersecurity and Cybercrime, for the fall 2024 semester, from August 26 to December 6, 2024 (final exam period from Wed-Wed, Dec 11-18). The class is scheduled to be held on campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00AM to 11:50AM.
Candidates must have a JD and strong legal professional backgrounds in the relevant subject matter, preferably with teaching experience. The course will be taught exclusively to enrolled undergraduate students.
Cybersecurity & Cybercrime is an undergraduate law course that studies the growing sophistication cyberattacks against individuals, companies, cities, and even entire countries, and the emerging policies addressing cybercrime. Through analyzing existing laws and case studies, and creating hypotheticals in class, students will emerge from the course understanding the difficulty of regulating computer crime(s) on the internet and how these crimes affect society as a whole.
Topics throughout the semester include how lawmakers and prosecutors define cybercrime, notorious instances of system hacks, digital forensics, jurisdictional issues in prosecuting cybercrime, and punishment for virtual actions, among other topics. The course will also ask students to consider these issues from the perspective of law enforcement, and study the logistics of how evidence of cybercrime is collected, and how authorities track down, or fail to find, virtual presences linked to major cybercrimes.
Upon completion of this course, students will understand how cybercrime impacts different organizations, society and various fields of study; from the value of employee training measures to combat phishing in large companies, to working in law enforcement with an informed understanding of systems that enable human trafficking for example. Ultimately, students will strive to understand justice and ethics in the context of changing technology.
This class may be postponed to a later semester if there are fewer than 6 students enrolled.
