Ateneo - UPO

The seminar is held as Summer School in Law and Humanities and Legal Clinics at the University of Nice/Cannes (UCA), during the month of July 2024, in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Nantes and Nice and with directors who are also experts in VR 360° technology.
A free mover program will be activated.
Students with DSA or disabilities are requested to inform the lecturer before the beginning of the course in order to agree on a personal learning path adapted to their needs, even beyond the compensatory and dispensatory measures provided for the exam.

Useful texts for the exam will be announced before the seminar begins.

By the end of the seminar, students should be able to critically navigate some areas of new technology law (including VR, Virtual Reality and HR, extended reality) and solve elementary practical cases.
The educational objectives of the course are:
- the learning of basic concepts of the proper approach of Law and Humanities to legal culture;
- the critical elaboration of problems related to the political use of the image in contemporary democracies;
- learning basic techniques of visual argumentation and the making of documentaries and short films (including 360° VR) related to the legal cases studied;
- learning research methodology through active participation in workshops and research seminars;
- working in a foreign language.

Having passed the examination in philosophy of law

The attendance schedule is with daily interactive lectures and common activities among students. Strong motivation and willingness for group work are required for participation.

The seminar will be held exclusively in Cannes/Nice at the Méliès/Carlone Campus during the month of July 2024 and is for attending students only.

Common analysis and discussion of the solved case, participation in group discussions, creation of video materials in 360° VR, short documentaries or short films. Verification does not involve an examination in traditional form, but the realization of a product.

The seminar is an innovative teaching mode (linked to the PRIN Project LET in Law) that involves solving an imaginary legal case and making a 360°VR video related to the case. After a common thematic part, students will use new technologies to make a short film from the case of Lon Fuller's speluncean explorers. Strong motivation and willingness for group work is required for participation. The seminar consist of a Summer School/Free Mover program during the month of July 2024, at the University of the Côte d'Azur in Cannes/Nice, France, at the Méliès/Carlone Campus, dedicated to the use of new technologies, with the possibility of residing in a student facility in Nice. The Summer School will include in-depth analysis of classic philosophical-legal and rhetorical-legal texts, in-depth study in English or French, and will also include the development of topics related to the legal clinic of new technologies and the making of short documentaries and short films. The attendance program will include daily interactive lectures and common activities among students and the creation of a film product in 360° VR starting with Lon Fuller's spelunking case.

Knowledge and understanding skills.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to understand the normative aspects of image use in contemporary complex societies.
Ability to apply knowledge and understanding
At the end of the course, students will be enabled to master the tools of visual communication in procedural and media contexts, to understand the central points of the ongoing transition to virtual reality and 360° cinematography, and the possibility of using the tools offered by independent cinema to carry out film and educational projects.
Autonomy of judgment
Students will be led to develop critical competence concerning the normative use of image in contemporary societies in different fields (political and legal communication, marketing, social networks).
Attendees will be in a position to:
(a) independently carry out and manage the different stages of an image production project;
b) use the knowledge learned and apply it to the field of video production of legal content.
Communication skills
Students will be expected to demonstrate mastery of:
(a) the ability to argue in oral form the content learned
(b) the ability to construct critical connections between topics.
Learning skills
Attendees and especially those who will attend the seminar will also be made able to master a job of writing content and group production of audiovisual content in a foreign language.