New Technologies, Law and Sustainability

- Basic knowledges and understanding of the current legislative framework (Italian and European) on distributed ledger technologies, and systems of/with artificial intelligence.
- Basic knowledges of the (main) technical aspects of: distributed ledger technologies (NFT, smart contracts, DAOs), and systems of/with artificial intelligence.
- Understanding of the legal issues arising from the use and development of technologies under scrutiny.
- Autonomy of judgement on the consequences that the development, and the widespread use of new technologies have on legal relationships among States, and among private parties.
- Communication skills and capability to argue on the given subject with logical-legal rigor.
- Learning ability, meant to be ability to reflect on the historical and evolutionary profiles of public and private international law applied to the space industry.

Students who have successfully mastered the course:
I) will have acquired the technical and legal concepts to understand and assess current events and the emerging challenges raised among the international Community by the widespread use of new technologies. Namely, Students will have acquired the skills to understand and discuss on the main legal issues raised by the development and use of distributed ledger technologies and AI-systems (focus on: characterization issue, liability and ethical issues);
II) will be able to understand the ethical issues raised by emergence and spread of new technologies, and to put them in relation with the legal ones.