Smart cities, artificial intelligence and digital transformation law

1. Knowledge and understanding. The course aims to provide students with a full knowledge of the main legal issues related to the use of new technologies and their evolution, through three macro-themes: smart cities, artificial intelligence and the law in the ongoing digital and technological transformation. 2. Application of knowledge and understanding. The course will provide students with a complete knowledge of the subject in order to correctly interpret the political-social framework relating to new technologies. Students will become familiar with the technical terms related to the innovations of the field. 3. Formulation of judgments. The course aims to provide students with the ability to choose a correct use of technologies with reference to legal issues, with independent evaluation approaches and through the analysis of the legal framework of the different states, with particular regard to the evolution trends of the subject. 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 advanced computer-legal skills with a very rapid learning curve and with the possibility of immediately using, even outside the university context, the concepts learned. 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, in English; the ability to link the different topics in order to elaborate useful proposals for the solution of concrete cases, also through casuistic cutting 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 topics of the course, with the acquisition of a reasoning method suitable for dealing with more specific and complex IT-legal subjects with respect to institutional notions.