Law, Science and Technology

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Academic year 2022/2023
Department of Legal Studies
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
EQF level: 8
38° cicle
Field of study: law information and communication technologies (icts)
Place of teaching
bologna (BO), italy
Duration of the course
Nov 2022 - Oct 2025
Attendance methods
Full time
Teaching
Classroom-based
Languages in which the course is held
English
Cost
157,04
Scholarships
7 

Course contents

Curricula and Research topics
- Human Rights and Ethical Principles in new and emerging technologies
- Ethics and law in Genetics
- Biotechnology and law
- Biobanks, DNA and research
- E-health and Privacy by Design applying AI and Big Data
- Privacy and eHealth information systems
- Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Health
- Semantic Web and Legal ontologies modelling
- Legal Analytics and AI for Legal Sources
- Legal Design techniques for transparency
- Data Science for Law
- Digital Humanities and legal sources
- LegalXML for legal document and knowledge modelling
- Information Systems for eJustice, eGovernment, and eLegislation
- Computational models of legal and ethical reasoning
- Intelligent Information extraction and NLP of legal resources
- e-Discovery and data mining in Legal domain
- Legal knowledge extraction using ML
- Formal Models of Norms and Legal Reasoning Logic-based models of norms and legal knowledge
- Legal reasoning, including argumentation and reasoning
- Argumentation systems
- Game theory as applied to the law
- Normative Multi-Agent Systems and e-Institutions Regulatory Compliance
- Automotive Self-driving system and liability
- Regulation of Robotics and Related Ethical Issues
- Privacy and Security with New Technology Cybercrime and Computer Forensics
- Computer forensics and security
- e-Business and Consumer Law
- e-Governance and e-Democracy social modelling
- IPR and New Technology
- Protection of children online for a safer Internet
- Digital citizenship and vulnerability of the minor digital identity
- Blockchain for legal domain
- e-Democracy: theoretical and technical models
- Artificial intelligence and democracy in the data society
- Artificial intelligence and eJustice: legal and technical solutions
- Big Data governance and law regulation balancing economical and individual rights
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Teaching

Place of teaching
bologna (BO), italy
Duration of the course
Nov 2022 - Oct 2025
Attendance methods
Full time
Compulsory attendance
Teaching
Classroom-based
Languages in which the course is held
English

Admission requirements

Type of degree required
2nd Level Degree
Field of study
information and communication technologies (icts), engineering and engineering trades, law
Foreign language skills
English

Admission

Available places
8
Admission
Admission selection
Qualifications and research project evaluation; Oral examination
Cost
157,04 €
Scholarships
7
1 positions with research grant and 2 scholarships funded by the EU - NextGenerationEU – NRRP

Employment opportunities

The doctoral programme offers innovative and up-to-date integrated training enabling candidates to carry out cutting-edge research in different subjects, such as bioethics and law & computer science, in topics that require a genuine interdisciplinary approach. It includes an internship in the third year offered by 14 industries, where candidates can apply their research and complement it with a professional experience. Upon completing the programme, graduates will become highly skilled researchers and professionals, meeting the requirements of the public and private sectors. They will be able qualified to seek employment, for example, in:
- law firms working on IPR, privacy, e-commerce, and patenting;
- high-tech software houses where artificial intelligence is applied;
- specialised research centres such as medical genetic centres, nanotechnology centres, and robotics laboratories;
- government offices that manage innovative ICT and eGovernment, eJustice, and eParliament projects;
- ethics committees that analyse scientific innovations and write policy documents.

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