Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Philosophy of Law

Philosophy of Law

Anno accademico 2018/2019

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Programma
• Testi consigliati e bibliografia
• Strumenti didattici

Obiettivi formativi

The aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge and elements of legal philosophy, to enable them to develop arguments and critical reflections on the main subjects of the course as well as to make a correct use of the philosophical and legal language.   

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

As a result of the course, students are expected:

-  to obtain the basic knowledge and elements of legal philosophy;

-  to be able to develop arguments and critical reflections on the main subjects of the course;

-  to be able to understand and make a correct use of the philosophical and legal language.

Modalità di insegnamento

The course consists of forty teaching hours.

Topics:

Week 1 - On Legal Theories

Week 2 - Democracy

Week 3 - Governance

Week 4 - Legal Sources

Week 5 - Design

Week 6 - Security

Week 7 - Laws of War

Week 8 - Legal Conflicts

Week 9 - Collective Rights

Week 10 - Personal Identities

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

An oral exam will cover all the topics of the course.  Through questioning, students are expected to prove the required theoretical knowledge of legal philosophy as well as their ability to argue and critically reflect on the main subjects of the course. Students' ability to make a correct use of the philosophical and legal language will be also evaluated.    

Programma

The course dwells on the legal impact of the information revolution, so as to stress endurances and breakthroughs of today's legal systems vis-à-vis the tradition of natural law (Plato and Aristotle), much as the most relevant philosophers of the modern era, such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. For the first time ever, human societies are increasingly dependent on ICTs and moreover, on information as a vital resource. This new scenario affects the ways in which legal systems have been represented in terms of norms, sanctions, or political representation, over the past centuries. The aim of the course is to explain this profound transformation, by taking into account current debate on democratic governance, security and laws of wars, design and the construction of personal identities.

1. Pagallo, Ugo and Massimo Durante (2016) The Philosophy of Law in an Information Society, in Luciano Floridi (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, pp. 396-407, Oxon & New York

2. Pagallo, Ugo (2015)The Realignment of the Sources of the Law and their Meaning in an Information Society, Philosophy & Technology, 28(1): 57-73

3. Pagallo, Ugo (2017) The Broken Promises of Democracy in the Information Era, in C. Prins, C. Cuijpers, P. L. Lindseth and M. Rosina (eds). Digital Democracy in a Globalized World, pp. 77-99, Elgar, Cheltenham

4. Durante, Massimo (2012),E-democracy as the frame of networked public discourse: information, consensus and complexity. In: P. Mindus - A. Greppi - M. Cuono. LEGITIMACY2.0. E-DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC OPINION IN THE DIGITAL AGE. vol. Paper Series - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology, p. 1-28, Frankfurt am Main: Goethe-Univ. Press.

5. Pagallo, Ugo (2015) Good Onlife Governance: On Law, Spontaneous Orders, and Design, in The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era, pp. 161-177, edited by L. Floridi, Springer, Dordrecht

6. Durante, Massimo (2016) The Democratic Governance of Information Societies. A Critique to the Theory of Stakeholders, Philosophy & Technology, 28(1): 11-32

7. Pagallo, Ugo (2012) Cracking down on Autonomy: Three Challenges to Design in IT Law, Ethics and Information Technology, 14(4): 319-328

8. Pagallo, Ugo and Massimo Durante (2016) The Pros and Cons of Legal Automation and its Governance, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 7(2): 323-334

9. Pagallo, Ugo (2013) Online Security and the Protection of Civil Rights: A Legal Overview, Philosophy & Technology, 26(4): 381-395

10. Durante Massimo (2018),"Trust and Security in the Digital Age. Algorithms, Standard and Risks", Springer, forthcoming

11. Pagallo, Ugo (2015) Cyber Force and the Role of Sovereign States in Informational Warfare, Philosophy & Technology, 28(3): 407-425

12. Durante, Massimo (2015) Violence, Just Cyber War, and Information, 28(3): 369-385

13. Durante, Massimo (2013) Dealing with Legal Conflicts in the Information Society. An Informational Understanding of Balancing Competing Interests, Philosophy & Technology, 26(4): 437-457

14. Pagallo, Ugo (2017) The Group, the Private, and the Individual: A New Level of Data Protection?, in Linnet Taylor, Luciano Floridi and Bart van der Sloot (eds.), Group Privacy: New Challenges of Data Technologies, pp. 159-173, Springer, Dordrecht

15. Durante, Massimo (2011) The Online Construction of Personal Identity Through Trust and Privacy, Information, 2(4): 594-620

16. Pagallo, Ugo and Massimo Durante (2014) Legal Memories and the Right to Be Forgotten, in L. Floridi (ed.), Protection of Information and the Right to Privacy - A New Equilibrium?, pp. 17-30, Springer, Dordrecht

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