9 Apr 2026 • 2 min read

Updated Internet Law and Policy Syllabus

We're publishing the 2025-2026 LLB syllabus for the Internet Law and Policy module at UCL Laws. We hope it is useful!

Now the first two terms of the academic year are over. I’d like to share the updated syllabus that is being put out for this year’s undergraduate module in Internet Law. It’s taught by me, Professor Orla Lynskey, and Dr Tommaso Fia. It is 20 weeks long, and taught in the final year of our UCL Laws LLB programme.

Please find it linked below:

LAWS0339 Internet Law and Policy Syllabus, Michael Veale, UCL Laws

Michael Veale

We hope this will be useful, particularly for new academics in this changing field who are developing new courses under stress and pressure. We’re happy to take questions about it and receive feedback! We're always up for hearing about your favourite pedagogical papers too so do send those over.

What we’d ask is that if you do make use of this, please buzz us, mainly because we always like to hear about it and who is teaching these topics! Also — and we know this isn't always possible, although often best to ask forgiveness not permission — try your best to make any amendments that you’ve made and make your own course public so that we can all benefit from what you’ve been doing as well.

Ultimately, this space is changing so fast that everyone just needs to keep up and help each other in order to make the best education possible in technology law.

Contents:

Seminar 1 Welcome to the Internet

Seminar 2 How To Control the Internet

Seminar 3 Blocking and Networked Rule-Making: the Domain Name System

Seminar 4 Liability Shielding and Safe Harbours

Seminar 5 Content Moderation Obligations

Seminar 6 Fair Moderation and Takedown Abuse

Seminar 7 Specific and General Monitoring

Seminar 8 By-Design Platform Regulation

Seminar 9 Verification: Ages, Names, Identities

Seminar 10 Moderating AI: Models and Outputs

Seminar 11 Privacy Online