Course Formative Objectives

To provide students with a knowledge of Information and Communication Technologies applied to the law.
By the end of the course, the student should be able to reach two aims:

• the use of new IT technologies in legal professions and activities.
• the capability to better comprehend and critically analyse the legal implications of technologies applied in digitization of private activities and professions, as well as of public administrations and political institutions.

Course Contents

• Introduction to legal informatics and IT law
• Computers, digital data, algorithms, software
• Legal information retrieval, databases, electronic legal documents structuring and management
• Information networks, the Internet, Semantic Web
• Artificial intelligence, legal reasoning and legal decision support systems
• ICT in Public Administration, electronic document and digital signature
• Internet, data protection and privacy
• Introduction to main legal issues related to IT technologies