Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza

Law and technology

Law and technology

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 law and technology, 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 both technical terms in e.g. computer science, and 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 law and technology;

-  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 both technical terms in e.g. computer science, and the philosophical and legal language.

Modalità di insegnamento

The course consists of forty teaching hours.

The ten weeks of the course will focus on:

1. Law and THE PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY

2. HUMAN IDENTITY AND TRUST

3. ON LEGAL REGULATION

4. LAW, TECHNOLOGY, AND ETHICS

5. THE CHALLENGES OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

6. THE CHALLENGES OF BIg DATA

7. THE INTERNET OF THINGS

8. RESPONSIBILITY OF INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS

9. COMPLIANCE BY DESIGN 

10. NETWORK THEORY

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 increasing role of technology in humanity raises constant major challenges to law in a variety of moral, theoretical and doctrinal dimensions. The purpose of this course is to analyze current developments in technological innovation through the prism of legal regulation and/or vice versa (analyzing legal regulation through the prism of technological innovation). Along with discussing the interface of law and technology through a variety of critical theoretical perspectives, the course will focus on specific topics and case studies as "laboratories" for assessing contemporary approaches to law & technology. The topics to be discussed include artificial intelligence, big data, the internet of things, and more. The main objective of this course is to make students aware of the connections between technology and the legal environment and keep them up-to-date with the current discussions worldwide.

1. DURANTE M. (2011). Normativity, Constructionism, and Constraining Affordances. ETICA & POLITICA, vol. XIII, 2, p. 180-200, ISSN: 1825-5167

2. DURANTE M. (2010). The Value of Information as Ontological Pluralism. KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, & POLICY, vol. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 2010, Volume 23, Numbers 1-2, Springer,, p. 149-161, ISSN: 1946-4789

3. DURANTE M. (2011). Rethinking Human Identity in the Age of Autonomic Computing: the Philosophical Idea of Trace. In: Mireille Hildebrandt & Antoinette Rouvroy. Law, Human Agency and Autonomic Computing. The Philosophy of Law meets the Philosophy of Technology. p. 85-103, London - New York: Routledge, ISBN: 9780415593236

4. DURANTE M. (2010). What Is the Model of Trust for Multi-agent Systems? Whether or Not E-Trust Applies to Autonomous Agents. KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, & POLICY, vol. Vol. 23, Num. 3-4, Knowledge, Technology & Policy, Springer, p. 347-366, ISSN: 1946-4789

5. PAGALLO U. (2017) From Automation to Autonomous Systems: A Legal Phenomenology with Problems of Accountability, in International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization (IJCAI-17), Melbourne, pp. 17-23;

6. DURANTE M. (2009). Re-designing the Role of Law in the Information Society: Mediating between the Real and the Virtual. In: Fernandez-Barrera M., Gomes de Andrade N., de Filippi P., de Azevedo Cunha M., Sartor G., Casanavas P. (Eds.). Law and Technology. Looking into the Future. p. 31-50, FIRENZE: European Press Academic Publishing, ISBN: 9788883980602

7. PAGALLO U. (2017) When Morals Ain't Enough: Robots, Ethics, and the Rules of the Law, "Minds and Machines, 27(4): 625-638;

8. PAGALLO U. (2016) Even Angels Need the Rules: AI, Roboethics, and the Law, in "European Conference on Artificial Intelligence" (ECAI), edited by Gal A. Kaminka et al., IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 209-215;

9. PAGALLO U. (2017) Algo-Rhythms and the Beat of the Legal Drum, "Philosophy and Technology", August, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0277-z;

10. PAGALLO U. (2017) The Legal Challenges of Big Data: Putting Secondary Rules First in the Field of EU Data Protection, "European Data Protection Law Review", 3, 1, pp. 34-46;

11. PAGALLO, U. - DURANTE, M. - MONTELEONE S. (2017) What Is New with the Internet of Things in Privacy and Data Protection? Four Legal Challenges on Sharing and Control in IoT, in Data Protection and Privacy: (In)visibilities and Infrastructures, edited by R. Leenes, R. van Brakel, S. Gutwirth e P. de Hert, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 59-78;

12. PAGALLO U. (2011) ISPs & Rowdy Web Sites Before the Law: Should We Change Today's Safe Harbour Clauses?,  "Philosophy and Technology", 24, 4, pp. 419-436; 

13. PAGALLO U. (2011) Designing Data Protection Safeguards Ethically, in "Information", 2, 2, pp. 247-265;

14. PAGALLO U. (2017) AI and Bad Robots: The Criminology of Automation, in The Routledge Handbook of Technology, Crime and Justice, a cura di M.R. McGuire e Th. J. Holt, London & New York, pp. 643-653;

 15. AGNOLONI T. - PAGALLO U. (2016) The Case Law of the Italian Constitutional Court between Network Theory and Philosophy of Information, "Informatica e diritto", XXV, 1, pp. 139-152; 

16. AGNOLONI T. - PAGALLO U. (2015) The Power Laws of the Italian Constitutional Court, and Their Relevance for Legal Scholars, in Legal Knowledge and Information Systems - JURIX 2015: The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference, edited by A. Rotolo, IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 1-10.

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