Business, Labor and New Technologies Law (Academic Year 2020/2021) - Diritto della sicurezza sul lavoro

The course aims to provide knowledge on the fundamental principles and the central themes of the law of new technologies, in the light of legal and jurisprudential evolution, national and supranational.

The course allows to acquire knowledge about the discipline, the profiles and the problems related to the use of information technology in society, through the study of the sources and the most relevant aspects from a legal point of view.

The course deals with the relationship between law and new technologies and the impact of information technology in the various aspects related to society as a whole and to the person with his rights.

After examining the relationship between legal science and information technology and the distinction between legal informatics and IT law, the course deals with the most significant issues, such as digital rights and constitutional freedoms; digital identity and the right to be forgotten; the protection of personal data; intellectual property and protection of IT assets; domain names; IT documents, electronic signatures, electronic communications and digital contracts; digital administration and digital citizenship; data governance (open data and big data); artificial intelligence; the responsibility of the provider; elements of criminal law of informatics; the regulation of the digital society.

F. Faini - S. Pietropaoli, Scienza giuridica e tecnologie informatiche, Giappichelli, Torino, 2017.

Alternatively, for those already in possession of it, until the call of July 2019 and after informing the Tutor, it is possible to take the exam on the following texts:

G. Sartor, L’informatica giuridica e le tecnologie dell’informazione. Corso di informatica giuridica, Giappichelli, Torino, 2016;

S. Faro - N. Lettieri (a cura di), Law and Computational Social Science, Esi, Napoli, 2013;

G. Peruginelli - M. Ragona (a cura di), L’informatica giuridica in Italia. Cinquant’anni di studi, ricerche ed esperienze, Esi, Napoli, 2014;

S. Faro - N. Lettieri - A. Tartaglia Polcini, Diritto e tecnologie. Verso le scienze sociali computazionali. Attualità e orizzonti dell’informatica giuridica, Esi, Napoli, 2012.

The course is characterized by self-assessment exercises, such as the food for thought proposed in the video lessons, and the exercises for verifying learning.

The ideas for reflection are connected to each video lesson as self-evaluation exercises on the topics covered; the student must try to answer taking into consideration what has been learned during the vision of the video lesson and, also, through the study of the reference text and the research materials indicated on the platform. The purpose of the food for thought is to develop critical thinking and facilitate understanding and learning.

The monitoring exercises allow students to evaluate the learning and the results of the study carried out by means of video lessons, reference text, research materials, interactive classes and discussions on the forum.

The monitoring exercises will consist of open-ended questions or in the analysis of a case, a normative text, a sentence, a problem or an essay.