LEGAL INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION LAW (Canale B)

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Objectives: The Course in Legal Informatics and Technology Innovation Law is part of a broader educational pathway designed to develop in students the ability to deeply understand the structural relationship between law and digital technologies, as well as the impact of technological innovation on methods of legal research, on traditional conceptual categories, and on the professional activities of the contemporary jurist. Its primary objective is to cultivate a combined technical and legal sensibility, enabling students to analyze digital phenomena in both their logicalcomputational components and their regulatory implications, with particular attention to issues relating to electronic documentation, artificial intelligence, and information security. In the current economic and institutional context—strongly shaped by processes of digitalization and by European public policies on digital transformation—it is essential to train jurists capable of using technological tools consciously and of critically interpreting emerging regulatory frameworks. The course therefore aims to provide an organic introduction to digital technologies, to traditional and AI‑based legal databases, as well as to the main institutions of information technology law, in order to provide students with skills that can be applied immediately both in academic study and in professional practice. A specific objective of the course is the acquisition of an effective methodology for legal documentary research through public and private legal information systems, as well as through advanced generative and predictive research tools. Students will therefore be guided to understand how these technologies operate, to critically question their use, and to evaluate their implications for the construction, interpretation, and application of the law. Assessment: The final grade, expressed out of 30, will be determined on the basis of the following components and their respective percentage weights: – 20% attendance – 10% active participation in class – 50% assessment of intermediate tests – 20% final exam (written and oral) Teaching Methods: Acquisition: lectures, podcasts, and online quizzes. Practice: case studies and simulations. Investigation: analyzing ideas and information across a range of materials and resources, using legal databases to collect, analyze, and compare texts. Collaboration: small‑group work, discussing others’ results and developing shared outputs. Discussion: seminars, group discussions in class, online forums, and synchronous and asynchronous discussions. Production: essays, reports, presentations, and blogs. Contents: I. Legal Informatics II. Legal Documentary Research III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa IV. The Electronic Document Reference Texts: The teaching material consists of the content of the lectures delivered by the instructor, together with related handouts and other materials shared on Luiss Learn. Reference text: forthcoming. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 1: I. Legal Informatics: 1. Presentation of the overall structure of the course and introduction to Legal Informatics. 2. Definition, scope, and relevance of the discipline in the contemporary context. 3. Digital competencies for the jurist: the DigComp framework and its application. Through lectures and class discussion activities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 10: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 7. Cybersecurity: threats, cyberattacks, and defense techniques. 8. Legal aspects of information security and related liabilities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 11: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 9. Networks, the Internet, and social media: architecture, func Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 12: IV. The Electronic Document: Creation, transmission, and preservation of the electronic document. Legal value of the digital document and practical examples. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 2: I. Legal Informatics: 4. The meaning of the “digital” for the law: legal categories and technological transformation. 5. The evolution of Legal Informatics and the first models of interaction between law and technology. Through lectures and class discussion activities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 3: II. Legal Documentary Research: Traditional legal research: normative, jurisprudential, and doctrinal sources. Research methodology and the logical structures underlying the retrieval of legal sources. Through lectures and class discussion activities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 4: II. Legal Documentary Research: 3. Automated legal research: indexing systems, logical operators, and search algorithms. 4. Introduction to research using artificial intelligence–based tools. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 5: II. Legal Documentary Research: 5. ItalgiureWeb and the SentenzeWeb database of the Court of Cassation: use, search strategies, and limitations. Through an investigation of a range of materials and resources, using legal databases to collect, analyze, and compare texts. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 6: II. Legal Documentary Research: 6. Private legal databases: characteristics, functions, and qualitative differences. 7. The LUISS Library: digital repositories, services, and modes of access to resources. Through an investigation of a range of materials and resources, using legal databases to collect, analyze, and compare texts. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 7: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: Machine logic: data, algorithms, and modelling. Computational thinking and its applications in legal analysis. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 8: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 3. Artificial intelligence: machine learning, intelligent systems, and generative models. 4. Early applications of AI in the legal field and related interpretative issues. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 9: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 5. Cryptography: functions, keys, and legal applications. 6. Digital identity and electronic signatures: SPID, CIE, and eIDAS. Intended learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: – understand the fundamental concepts of legal informatics, technology law, and the electronic document; – be familiar with tools and techniques for digital legal research, including AI‑based solutions; – acquire essential technical notions on networks, cybersecurity, cryptography, and electronic signatures. Skills: – critically use traditional legal databases and advanced research systems; – analyze practical cases concerning digital documents, cybersecurity, and liability in technological contexts; – assess the legal implications of emerging technologies, with the ability to navigate national and European regulatory frameworks. Communication skills: – present legal and techno‑legal content clearly, rigorously, and with well‑structured argumentation; – use the vocabulary of legal informatics and new technologies appropriately. Learning ability: – develop the competences necessary to independently study legal phenomena linked to technological innovation; – integrate new knowledge in a constantly evolving environment. Objectives: This class is the first stage of the overall didactic structure of Legal Informatics of the LUISS master's degree in Law, which is made up of five preparatory laboratories and a course spread over the first three years. These teaching classes constitute a unitary and progressive path according to a logical itinerary studied in order to implement the student's sensitivity for the mutual interaction between information technology and law. The intent is to train a jurist who can be ready to face the legal challenges of the digital dimension, increasingly pervasive and transversal in every professional sector, and of IT applications in the legal sector. To this end, the student will also have to acquire purely technical and IT knowledge to fully understand the technological phenomena of which he or she may be required to evaluate the legal implications and effects. This is a strategic goal that the Department of Law has set itself, as it is impossible to imagine the figure of a jurist today who is not fully familiar with digital tools and is unable to analyze the impact of the most disruptive technological applications on society, law, markets and institutions at a global level. The overwhelming innovation encouraged by national and European public policies requires versatile professional figures, capable of applying the traditional categories of law to unprecedented technological phenomena, or even of building new ones better able to regulate the present. To do this, it is required an understanding of the basic architecture of networks, as well as the languages of mathematics and the logic of algorithms, in order to be able to read them in the forms of law. Specifically, the Class of Language and Logic of Machines aims to form the foundation of such complex knowledge, providing the vocabulary, grammar and syntax of computational thinking and cryptography. Assessment: The final grade, expressed out of 30, will derive from the evaluation of the following items for the respective percentage share 20% attendance 10% active participation during classes 50% intermediate tests 20% final exam (written and oral) Teaching Methods: Acquisition: lectures, podcasts and online quizzes Practice: guest speakers Investigation: analyzing ideas and information in a range of materials and resources, using conventional methods to collect and analyze data and comparing texts Collaboration: small group project, discussing others’ output and building joint output Discussion: seminars, group based class discussion, online forums and synchronous and asynchronous discussion Production: essays, reports, presentations and blogs Prerequisites: Knowledge and comprehension: to achieve knowledge of some cutting-edge topics in the relevant field of study with the appropriate teaching support, basic understanding of programming languages and knowledge of computer architecture and networks. Making autonomous judgements: collecting and interpreting relevant information and data. Communication skills: communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions. Ability to learn: having developed the necessary skills to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy. Contents: I. Logic and computational thinking II. Safeguards integrated into the data processing III. Hardware and software architecture IV. Data protection and information security Reference Texts: The teaching material consists of the content of the lessons given by the lecturer related handouts and other materials shared on Luiss Learn. G.D’Acquisto, M. Naldi, Big Data e privacy by Design, Giappichelli G.D’Acquisto, D.Benedetti, L.Nobile, Innovazione tecnologica per umanisti, Giappichelli Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 1: I. Legal Informatics: 1. Presentation of the overall structure of the course and introduction to Legal Informatics. 2. Definition, scope, and relevance of the discipline in the contemporary context. 3. Digital competencies for the jurist: the DigComp framework and its application. Through lectures and class discussion activities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 10: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 7. Cybersecurity: threats, cyberattacks, and defense techniques. 8. Legal aspects of information security and related liabilities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 11: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 9. Networks, the Internet, and social media: architecture, func Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 12: IV. The Electronic Document: Creation, transmission, and preservation of the electronic document. Legal value of the digital document and practical examples. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 2: I. Legal Informatics: 4. The meaning of the “digital” for the law: legal categories and technological transformation. 5. The evolution of Legal Informatics and the first models of interaction between law and technology. Through lectures and class discussion activities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 3: II. Legal Documentary Research: Traditional legal research: normative, jurisprudential, and doctrinal sources. Research methodology and the logical structures underlying the retrieval of legal sources. Through lectures and class discussion activities. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 4: II. Legal Documentary Research: 3. Automated legal research: indexing systems, logical operators, and search algorithms. 4. Introduction to research using artificial intelligence–based tools. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 5: II. Legal Documentary Research: 5. ItalgiureWeb and the SentenzeWeb database of the Court of Cassation: use, search strategies, and limitations. Through an investigation of a range of materials and resources, using legal databases to collect, analyze, and compare texts. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 6: II. Legal Documentary Research: 6. Private legal databases: characteristics, functions, and qualitative differences. 7. The LUISS Library: digital repositories, services, and modes of access to resources. Through an investigation of a range of materials and resources, using legal databases to collect, analyze, and compare texts. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 7: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: Machine logic: data, algorithms, and modelling. Computational thinking and its applications in legal analysis. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 8: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 3. Artificial intelligence: machine learning, intelligent systems, and generative models. 4. Early applications of AI in the legal field and related interpretative issues. Extended Program And Reference Reading Material: Week 9: III. Introduction to the Applications of Legal Science in the World of Information Technology and Vice Versa: 5. Cryptography: functions, keys, and legal applications. 6. Digital identity and electronic signatures: SPID, CIE, and eIDAS. Intended learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: – understand the fundamental concepts of legal informatics, technology law, and the electronic document; – be familiar with tools and techniques for digital legal research, including AI‑based solutions; – acquire essential technical notions on networks, cybersecurity, cryptography, and electronic signatures. Skills: – critically use traditional legal databases and advanced research systems; – analyze practical cases concerning digital documents, cybersecurity, and liability in technological contexts; – assess the legal implications of emerging technologies, with the ability to navigate national and European regulatory frameworks. Communication skills: – present legal and techno‑legal content clearly, rigorously, and with well‑structured argumentation; – use the vocabulary of legal informatics and new technologies appropriately. Learning ability: – develop the competences necessary to independently study legal phenomena linked to technological innovation; – integrate new knowledge in a constantly evolving environment.