The course aims at offering to the students an introduction to legal informatics: to its technical background, to its theory, history and perspectives, and to its relationship with "positive law". The goal is stressing the role of ICT in the education of lawyers intended to operate in contemporary world.
Students attending the course may use their notes from the lectures together with the reading materials to be distributed during the course.
For non attending students, the texts are: Th. Casadei, S. Pietropaoli (a cura di), Diritto e tecnologie informatiche. Questioni di informatica giuridica, prospettive istituzionali e sfide sociali; S. Pietropaoli, Informatica criminale. Diritto e sicurezza nell’era digitale, Giappichelli, Torino 2022.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge Basic computer skills. Knowledge of the main tools of legal information. Knowledge of fundamentals of legal informatics and ICT law. Abilities Skills in choosing the tools to carry out the legal professions and their management. Basic training in the management of traditional and digital legal resources. Results to be obtained High degree of competence in solving practical problems, using the knowledge and skills acquired in legal informatics. Attitude to the searching of jurisprudence, legislation and case law, through the consultation of traditional and online archives and databases.
Prerequisites
No
Teaching Methods
The course will consist of 48 hours of lectures with plenty of opportunities for training in class. Power point presentations and other materials handed out during the lessons, will be available
Further information
Type of Assessment
For attending students only, there will be intermediate examinations in seminar form and a final written report.
For non-attending students, the final examinations will be held in oral form.
As a guideline, the oral examination will consist of three questions: one of a general nature, one focusing on a specific institute, and one formulated on the basis of one of the judicial decisions or practical cases part of the programme. The assessment will allow the examination to be passed if the answers are fully sufficient and no major errors or gaps emerge. The assessment will be excellent if the answers are also comprehensive with reference to the relevant constitutional principles and relevant case law. The following profiles will also be taken into consideration: ability to discursively organise knowledge, critical reasoning ability, quality of exposition, competence in the use of specialist vocabulary, effectiveness and linearity of exposition. Descriptive knowledge, to a greater or lesser extent, but without critical analysis and without reference to the constitutional and jurisprudential context, may result in a sufficient but hardly higher mark than 25.
Course program
The lessons will focus on the following topics: digital citizenship, network access and net neutrality; public administration and digital rights; personal data protection, digital identity and right to be forgotten; eHealth; electronic democracy; electronic signature and smart contract; remote work; electronic justice; copyright and copyleft; cybersecurity; computer forensics; computer crimes and the phenomena of cyberstalking, cyberbullying and revenge porn; cryptoactivity and blockchain: Criminal and tax profiles; cybertechnology and international law issues; digital surveillance; hate speech; digital divide; AI and law; digital death; problems of technoregulation.