Bachelor 2025/2026

Research Seminar "Legal Aspects of a Smart City"

Type: Elective course (Jurisprudence: Digital Lawyer)

Delivered by: School of Digital Law and Bio-Law

When: 3 year, 3, 4 module

Open to: students of all HSE University campuses

Instructors: Mikhail Zhuravlev

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The discipline "Legal Aspects of Smart City" reveals the legal issues of implementation and development of "smart city" technologies, theoretical and practical aspects of the digitalization of urban management, the legal foundations for ensuring public safety in the urban environment. Special attention is paid to the legal regulation of data circulation in the digital ecosystem of the city, sector-specific issues of integrating digital solutions into the urban economy (e-health and education, urban social policy, transport and security). As part of the course, students will develop models of legal support for the implementation of digital solutions in certain areas of urban management.