09945 - Legal Computer Science (A-C)

Academic Year 2013/2014

  • Docente: Cesare Maioli
  • Credits: 6
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)

Learning outcomes

The course is an introduction to information and communication technologies applied to law.

Course contents

The course is made up of two parts: ICT  law and law and legal informatics.

ICT law deals with: hardware and software; algorithm and program; digital data representation; archives and data bases; communication and the Internet; information systems and advanced exploitation of them.

Legal informatics cover the main issues of data privacy, intellectual property rights, Internet governance and e-commerce.

Readings/Bibliography

The materials presented and available on the AMS Campus website are enough to satisfy the knowledge aims of the course.

The reference books are:

  • G. Sartor,  L'informatica giuridica e le tecnologie dell'informazione, Giappichelli, Torino, edizione 2010.
  • G. Pascuzzi, Il diritto dell'era digitale,  il Mulino, Bologna, edizione 2010. 

Teaching methods

Prof. Cesare Maioli will teach the whole course using slides and making reference to selected documents.

Seminars by avv. Vincenzo Colarocco (Commercio elettronico; Dematerializzazione; Destatualizzazione),  dr.ssa Giovanna de Rugeriis (Documento informatico e firme elettroniche; Privacy), dr. Michele Ferrazzano (Informatica forense e diritto penale), avv. Maria Letizia Perugini (Proprietà intellettuale),

Assessment methods

Written final exam with open questions that may be followed by a few oral questions to clarify the answers.

Detailed information is given in the Contenuti Utili section of this site.

Teaching tools

In the AMS Campus website there are materials, slides and information that constitutes the necessary and sufficient knowledge base fot the preparation of the exam. 

Office hours

See the website of Cesare Maioli