Advanced Computer Law

1. Knowledge and understanding. The Course aims to provide students with a correct approach to the use of technology by the jurist ("Advanced Legal Informatics"), with particular attention to the practical use of the computer and the network connection for professional purposes, in Court, in the activity typical of a law firm or notary and for the business lawyer. 2. Application of knowledge and understanding. The acquired notions will be of immediate theoretical and practical utility to improve the relationship between the user and the technologies used, and will allow a more accurate understanding of all aspects of a constantly evolving field. 3. Formulation of judgments. The course will provide students with the ability to choose at any time a correct use of the technologies in the environment in which they will operate, with independent evaluation approaches (and not necessarily linked to the product or to the "most used" software) and with a constant practical attention to a use of technologies that is useful in the future professional context. 4. Communication skills. The Course will give students the opportunity to present complex technological and IT-legal issues with language properties and with clarity. 5. Learning skills. The course aims to provide students with a concrete improvement in their IT-legal skills with a very rapid learning curve and with the possibility of immediately using the concepts learned even outside the university context The Course has, also, the specific purpose of giving students: a thorough knowledge of the topics covered by the course, both from a technical and legal point of view, on the assumption of the acquisition of the first basic elements during the previous university career; the ability to critically address issues and resolve legal issues through the revision of the concepts learned; strengthening the technical and IT language relevant to the subject; the ability to link the different topics in order to elaborate useful proposals for the solution of concrete cases, also through practical lessons carried out with the active participation of the students.

At the end of the course the student who has successfully learned the subject will have an in-depth knowledge of the Course topics, with the acquisition of a reasoning method suitable for dealing with more specific and complex IT-legal topics with respect to institutional notions.