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Cyberlaw: Law for Digital Spaces and Information Systems

Name: Cyberlaw: Law for Digital Spaces and Information Systems
Rating: 4.2 (28 reviews)

Learn about law and how it applies to technology, digital spaces, information systems, and your organization

Created byJohn Bandler

Last updated 4/2025

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What you'll learn

Cyberlaw basics
Data breach reporting law basics
Cybersecurity law basics
Privacy concepts and laws
Understand how cyberlaw is built on traditional law
Understand how law applies to technology and cyberspace
Put today's issues involving cybercrime, cybersecurity, privacy, and technology in the context of law
Includes a solid introduction to law
Includes a solid introduction to cyber and technology
Know where to find additional, reliable information on cyberlaw
Principles to keep your organization in compliance with laws regarding cybersecurity, data breach reporting, and privacy
Check the course length. Only so much can be covered. Additional free resources available

Course content

10 sections • 42 lectures • 11h 0m total length

Pre-course feedback exercise
Course Introduction and Orientation12:28
Discover why cyber law applies to digital spaces and information systems, and how this course uses a scaffolded, book-based structure with handouts and evolving resources.
Introducing Cyberlaw7:47
Introduce cyber law as the intersection of cyber and traditional law, built on information systems, covering four data laws—data disposal, breach notification, cybersecurity, privacy—and core concepts like criminal, negligence, contract.
Quick recall exercise
Learning Tips12:13
End of Section 1 Assignment (Cyberlaw)

Rules humans create8:30
Explore how rules originate from five sources—parents, ourselves, society, organizations, and government—and how law fits as a type of rule, with criminal, civil, and ethical standards.
Rules recap exercise
Laws Introduced13:27
Explore how laws arise from government through statutes, regulations, and court decisions, and how judge-made law shapes precedent under the Constitution across federal, state, and local levels.
The U.S. Legal System Introduced21:07
This one ran long, but it lays a nice foundation for law in the U.S.
The U.S. Constitution and Amendments12:11
Crime and Criminal Law Introduced20:24
Civil Law Introduced11:07
The First Amendment12:44
The Fourth Amendment15:41
Jurisdiction14:45
Learn how personal and subject matter jurisdiction determine where civil and criminal cases may be heard, including state versus federal rules, federal questions, diversity, and venue considerations.
End of section 2 Assignment (Cyberlaw)

How We Got to Cyberlaw Today vs. Yesterday14:06
Explore how technology intersects law, crime, privacy, and business and compare the 1990s to today, illustrating how cyber law evolves with new tools and disputes.
Cybercrime and Identity Theft18:48
The Need for Privacy Other Markets for Your Data)9:35
Introduction to Technology22:34
Introduction to Cybersecurity18:20
Applying Law to the Digital Domain13:38
Apply existing laws to the digital domain by thinking like a rational, objective lawyer, and analogizing and distinguishing to map First and Fourth Amendment, contract, privacy, and cybercrime.
End of Cyberlaw Section 3 Assignment (Cyberlaw)

Intentional Torts (Wrongs)17:17
Negligence Law (Torts)15:38
Learn the basics of negligence and tort law, applying duty, breach, and causation to cyberspace and information systems, with emphasis on reasonable, diligent practice to prevent damages.
Contract Law15:22
Regulation and Regulatory Law Introduced15:48
Intellectual Property Law21:19
Explore four types of intellectual property law—copyright, trademark, patent, and trade secrets—and how they protect minds' creations in the cyber era, including fixation, branding, invention, and confidential information.
End of cyberlaw section 5 assignment

Data Law Introduced15:59
Data Breach Notification Laws11:49
Explore data breach notification laws that require organizations to report breaches to government and affected consumers, define private information, and explain why these rules protect consumers and encourage cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity and Data Protection Laws18:37
Privacy and Privacy Laws22:43
Artificial Intelligence15:59
Some Data Laws Comprehensively9:38
End of cyberlaw Section 6 assignment

Business Law Basics15:27
Master the basics of business law in cyber contexts, covering governance, risk management, legal compliance, cybersecurity frameworks like four pillars, and the role of ethics in hiring and decision making.
Organization Management and Policy Work with the Five Components14:40
Managing Cyber Issues (and Others Too)17:00
Cybersecurity and Privacy Guidance (Frameworks)10:45
The Four Pillars of Cybersecurity (More Cybersecurity External Guidance)11:30

Requirements

Desire to learn about law through a no-nonsense, no frills, rapid fire lecture, one topic per module
Solid English comprehension helpful
Ten or twenty minute attention span to make it through each classroom style lecture
This is a short of cyberlaw which can get complex
Kind and collegial learners appreciated
Realizing this is just a lecture and my PowerPoint, without fancy video editing

Description

We all need to know about law and cyberlaw. Allow me to share some of my knowledge with you.

This course is to help individuals and organizations learn about cyberlaw and all that entails. Law is everywhere, cyber is everywhere, so cyberlaw is now a part of our society and daily life.

This course is not for everyone! But it is right for some. It is academic type lectures, using my PowerPoint slides, my research, my brain, my skills (such as they are). There are no fancy graphics and no fancy video editing. It is not entertainment and you will need an attention span of at least ten minutes. Consider your personal preferences, and see a few sample videos before you decide if this is right for you. If you have a problem or need something, message me.

Why this course? I have learned about cyberlaw over the years. First prosecuting cybercrime, then in private practice. I teach students and professionals about law, technology, cybersecurity, cybercrime, and privacy. I've written books on the topic. It was time to share these materials with a broader audience and I already have other courses on Udemy.

In January of 2025 I published my new book, Cyberlaw: Law for Digital Spaces and Information Systems, which I wrote to align with my teaching and thinking on the subject over the years. The book explains it and organizes it in the way that makes sense to me. After publishing the book, it was time to rebuild my cyberlaw course.

This online course has one module for each chapter in the book, and is backed by the same extensive resources of the book.

Here is the outline (don't forget to download the handout with lecture 1 and see my resources webpage).

Course Introduction
Introduction to law
Entering the digital domain of cyberspace
Criminal cyberlaw
Civil law I, Traditional areas of civil law applied to cyberspace
Civil law II, Data law
International cyber conflict
Speech online
Organization management and compliance with cyberlaw
Conclusion and thank you

Law is for everyone and that means cyberlaw too. It is not just for lawyers.

If you read this description and take the course, I hope you will see that the course meets and exceeds the description, with considerable quality and effort. If you see that, and feel it is worthy of a five star review, I would appreciate that to recognize my efforts.

Building these courses is a hobby for me, I do not have significant video recording skills, nor hardly any video editing skills, and there is no production team. It's slide and lectures. This course has almost no editing, so you will hear my pauses and misspeaks, warts and all.

Revision note: This course started as a free (less than 2 hour course) which I then built into a full course after publication of my 2025 book, Cyberlaw: Law for Digital Spaces and Information Systems. Once it started to exceed 2 hours, it automatically converted to a paid course. The build out was completed on 4/6/2025 and is now an eleven hour course backed with free resources on my site. There is one lecture to parallel each chapter of my 2025 book on cyberlaw.

Who this course is for:

Most any person interested in the intersection of law and technology
Those with a ten or twenty minute attention span and ability to sit through a no-frills lecture on each cyberlaw topic
This course is not for everyone but you can try out my lectures before enrolling
Those seeking information but not edutainment. I am not an entertainer, just trying to provide solid information and knowledge.

Cyberlaw: Law for Digital Spaces and Information Systems

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Course content

Introducing the course and a mindset for learning cyberlaw3 lectures • 32min

Introducing Law and Our Legal System9 lectures • 2hr 10min

Entering the Digital Domain of “Cyberspace” Introducing Tech, Cyber, and more6 lectures • 1hr 37min

Criminal Cyberlaw: Cybercrime and Cybercrime Investigations5 lectures • 1hr 38min

Civil cyberlaw I: Traditional Civil Law Applied to Cyberspace5 lectures • 1hr 25min

Civil Cyberlaw II: Data Law, Cybersecurity Law, and Privacy Law6 lectures • 1hr 35min

International Cyber Actions and Cyber Conflict1 lecture • 24min

Speech, Expression, and Thought in Cyberspace and Our Brains1 lecture • 25min

Organization management and compliance with cyberlaw5 lectures • 1hr 9min

Conclusion and thank you1 lecture • 4min

Requirements

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