DIRITTO DELLE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE

Degree course: 
Corso di Long single cycle degree (5 years) in Law - Varese
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2022/2023
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2024/2025
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
8
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
50
Requirements: 

Knowledge of fundamentals of private law and constitutional law (prerequisite).
For the criminal law module, knowledge of basic criminal law is required, preparatory to the exam. Students, attending and non-attending students, are therefore recommended to systematically review the general part of criminal law.

Final Examination: 
Orale

The exam consists of an oral test focused on the whole content of the course. The learning assessment procedures consist of a final oral exam covering the entire program, either face-to-face or remotely according to the indications of the University, during which the candidate will be asked to report, through the use of gradually more specific questions, the knowledge and methodologies acquired.
The final grade will be expressed in a grade from 18 to 30. It will take into account the knowledge and ability to adequately report the contents of the program (60%), the ability to interpret with solid arguments, to connect with correct logic and systemic vision the institutes studied and to relate the institutes treated with the peculiarities of new technologies (30%) and finally the technical-expressive capacity (10%). For the purposes of the assessment, effective and active participation in teaching activities is also taken into account.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The course introduces students to the civil and criminal law problems posed by the use of new technologies. It aims to apply the categories of private and substantive criminal law to some of the phenomena related to the advent of new information technologies and / or artificial intelligence.
The module also aims to improve, in the student, the ability to use the juridical language appropriately and to argue the conclusions presented with autonomy of judgment by stimulating a careful approach to problem solving dynamics, thus also favoring the refinement of communicative-relational skills.

The course aims to introduce students to the civil and criminal law problems posed by the use of new technologies. It further aims to apply the categories of substantive private law to some of the phenomena related to the advent of new information technologies and/or artificial intelligence.
The course will cover the following topics:
- Personal data, sensitive data and new technologies, with a focus on the issues that the GDPR poses with regard to the use of new technologies, with particular reference to the use of artificial intelligence in the biomedical field.
- Personality rights and their dimension in the virtual world: digital identity and issues related to succession in the digital estate.
- The metaverse and its possible uses with particular reference to the medical field.
- Consumer law in the digital marketplace,
- Digital platforms and online contract law, with particular reference to problems related to applicable law and protection of users of digital platforms
- Geoblocking
- Civil law profiles of artificial intelligence, with particular attention to the patentability and authorship protection of inventions made through AI, especially in the medical field and issues related to the compensability of damages caused by AI.

- New technologies and their use in agriculture, with a focus on the patentability of artificially created plant species by humans.
- Biotechnology and genome editing in the plant field: property rights over intellectual resources, precautionary principle, biosafety, coexistence, patentability, food labeling.
- Criminal law and new technologies, focus on some aspects of particular relevance (The criminal liability of Internet Service Providers and bloggers; nods to artificial agents; Offenses under data protection legislation, computer privacy and protection of digital identity; Illicit use of the Internet: online defamation, sexting vs. telematic child pornography, virtual pornography, telematic child grooming; Protection of freedom of expression and criminal measures to counter hate on social networks)

The course introduces students to the civil and criminal law problems posed by the use of new technologies. It aims to apply the categories of private and substantive criminal law to some of the phenomena related to the advent of new information technologies and / or artificial intelligence.
The module also aims to improve, in the student, the ability to use the juridical language appropriately and to argue the conclusions presented with autonomy of judgment by stimulating a careful approach to problem solving dynamics, thus also favoring the refinement of communicative-relational skills.

Convenzionale

Online lectures involving experts in new technologies and legal issues related to their use