ID:
510206
Duration (hours):
44
CFU:
6
SSD:
DIRITTO COMMERCIALE
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (22/09/2025 - 19/12/2025)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
Analysis of most pressing contemporary issues that the law faces when regulating global, technology enabled markets, the digital economy and knowledge industries. By the end the student will have acquired a sophisticated awareness of the problems that arise in the field of law and technology and the differing approaches to their solution.
Course Prerequisites
Innovation&Technology Law: the core subjects of the course provide in-depth knowledge of domains where law engages with technology, such as AI, cyber, digital law, space law
Knowledge of the English language is a prerequisite.
Knowledge of the English language is a prerequisite.
Teaching Methods
Teaching and in group seminars
Assessment Methods
Oral exam
Texts
Suggested Readings
Mireille Hildebrandt, *Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk*
Frank Pasquale, *The Black Box Society*
Luciano Floridi, *Ethics of Information*
Julie Cohen, *Between Truth and Power*
Ugo Pagallo, *The Laws of Robots*
Anu Bradford, *The Brussels Effect*
Institutional documents: AI Act (EU), White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, OECD Principles on AI, Singapore Model AI Governance Framework
H Abelson Blown to bits: your life, liberty and happiness after the digital explosion (Pearson, Boston 2008« available as a free eBook at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y7DOltmSGjgC
L Lessig, Code 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006, available as a free e-book at http://www.codev2.cc/
A Murray, Information Technology Law: The Law and Society (3rd ed, OUP, Oxford 2016)
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950.
Lin, Patrick, Keith Abney, and George A. Bekey. Robot ethics: the ethical and social implications of robotics. MIT Press, 2011
Graeme Laurie, Shawn Harmon and Edward Dove, Mason and McCall Smiths Law and Medical Ethics (11th ed) (OUP, 2019)
Biotechnology Law: A Primer for Scientists A. James Morrison, Columbia University Press, 2020
Laura Palazzani Innovation in scientific research and emerging technologies. A challenge to ethics and law (Giappichelli-Springer 2019)
An Introduction to Technology Law edited by Lexis PSL TMT Team (LexisNexis Butterworths 2018)
Tanja Masson-Zwaan - Introduction to Space Law edited by Wolters Kluwer
a range of articles will be provided and will be available during the course. There will also be much use of online material, including journals, blogs, regulatory guidance, case law and legislation.
Mireille Hildebrandt, *Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk*
Frank Pasquale, *The Black Box Society*
Luciano Floridi, *Ethics of Information*
Julie Cohen, *Between Truth and Power*
Ugo Pagallo, *The Laws of Robots*
Anu Bradford, *The Brussels Effect*
Institutional documents: AI Act (EU), White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, OECD Principles on AI, Singapore Model AI Governance Framework
H Abelson Blown to bits: your life, liberty and happiness after the digital explosion (Pearson, Boston 2008« available as a free eBook at http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Y7DOltmSGjgC
L Lessig, Code 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006, available as a free e-book at http://www.codev2.cc/
A Murray, Information Technology Law: The Law and Society (3rd ed, OUP, Oxford 2016)
Isaac Asimov, I, Robot, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1950.
Lin, Patrick, Keith Abney, and George A. Bekey. Robot ethics: the ethical and social implications of robotics. MIT Press, 2011
Graeme Laurie, Shawn Harmon and Edward Dove, Mason and McCall Smiths Law and Medical Ethics (11th ed) (OUP, 2019)
Biotechnology Law: A Primer for Scientists A. James Morrison, Columbia University Press, 2020
Laura Palazzani Innovation in scientific research and emerging technologies. A challenge to ethics and law (Giappichelli-Springer 2019)
An Introduction to Technology Law edited by Lexis PSL TMT Team (LexisNexis Butterworths 2018)
Tanja Masson-Zwaan - Introduction to Space Law edited by Wolters Kluwer
a range of articles will be provided and will be available during the course. There will also be much use of online material, including journals, blogs, regulatory guidance, case law and legislation.
Contents
Introduction to the interaction between Law & Technology
Foundations of Law and Innovation
Basic legal concepts in technology law
Regulatory models (soft law, sandboxing, hard law)
Law and technological disruption.
The economic impact of innovation
Digital economy, key features; USA, Eu
Digital Economy, Global Trade and Investment Restrictions in advanced technology and outlook of digital economy
Artificial intelligence, development, public support and VC investments
AI effects on the economy, impact on GDP and jobs
Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and Crypto
Legal implications of DLT
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and compliance
CBDCs
The Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges,
Frameworks, and Future Directions
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Liability
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Science of Robotics: Basic concepts and ideas
The EU AI Act
Legal accountability of autonomous systems
Algorithmic bias and transparency
Artificial Intelligence and law – Chat GPT and LLM – Generative AI
AI and criminal law: online surveillance and privacy in an age of robotics
Driverless Cars, Drones,
Robots and Creativity - the IP implications of robotics and Civil & Criminal liability
The European Union, the United States, Canada, China, Singapore and other countries around the world are advancing R&D and commercialization of AI. How these countries, as well as multilateral institutions, are developing policy and regulatory frameworks to control and reduce harm of AI technologies.
Human-Computer Interaction and Governance
Exploring a domain of computer science called human-computer interaction (HCI) and questions what lessons can be learned from this field for technology law and governance.
novel use cases of cutting-edge technologies to ground class discussions in emerging real life governance problems. practices of designers and what opportunities there are for addressing legal, cultural, and social harms introducing to
a) new ways of thinking about what designers do;
(b) new methods and approaches they can take into their own legal work;
(c) and) engage with new applications being developed in HCI research to understand better how we live ethically and legally with technology
Space Law
public Vs private use
civil and defense
EU Space Act
Biotechnology & Medical Sciences
Contemporary issues in biotechnology and Healthcare
Biotechnology, Bioethics and Society
human genetics and biotechnologies
Foundations of Law and Innovation
Basic legal concepts in technology law
Regulatory models (soft law, sandboxing, hard law)
Law and technological disruption.
The economic impact of innovation
Digital economy, key features; USA, Eu
Digital Economy, Global Trade and Investment Restrictions in advanced technology and outlook of digital economy
Artificial intelligence, development, public support and VC investments
AI effects on the economy, impact on GDP and jobs
Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and Crypto
Legal implications of DLT
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and compliance
CBDCs
The Ethics and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges,
Frameworks, and Future Directions
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Liability
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Science of Robotics: Basic concepts and ideas
The EU AI Act
Legal accountability of autonomous systems
Algorithmic bias and transparency
Artificial Intelligence and law – Chat GPT and LLM – Generative AI
AI and criminal law: online surveillance and privacy in an age of robotics
Driverless Cars, Drones,
Robots and Creativity - the IP implications of robotics and Civil & Criminal liability
The European Union, the United States, Canada, China, Singapore and other countries around the world are advancing R&D and commercialization of AI. How these countries, as well as multilateral institutions, are developing policy and regulatory frameworks to control and reduce harm of AI technologies.
Human-Computer Interaction and Governance
Exploring a domain of computer science called human-computer interaction (HCI) and questions what lessons can be learned from this field for technology law and governance.
novel use cases of cutting-edge technologies to ground class discussions in emerging real life governance problems. practices of designers and what opportunities there are for addressing legal, cultural, and social harms introducing to
a) new ways of thinking about what designers do;
(b) new methods and approaches they can take into their own legal work;
(c) and) engage with new applications being developed in HCI research to understand better how we live ethically and legally with technology
Space Law
public Vs private use
civil and defense
EU Space Act
Biotechnology & Medical Sciences
Contemporary issues in biotechnology and Healthcare
Biotechnology, Bioethics and Society
human genetics and biotechnologies
Course Language
English
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