Ateneo - UPO

Content analysis of legal informatics, with special reference to the problems of artificial intelligence and its application to the legal field. Connected to the course is an international free mover project to be held in Nice in July 2027. Information about the project will be provided during the first lectures of the course. Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs can request specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage: https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/servicesstudents-physical-or-learning-disabilities Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted the University Staff, can refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities, concerning academic aspects.

The course distinguishes between attending and non-attending students. For attending students, the text for the written exam is G. Sartor, L'intelligenza artificiale per giuristi. Dai sistemi esperti all'AI generativa, Giappichelli, Torino 2026. For the oral examination are class notes and Lo schermo delle norme vol. 2 Male e libertà all’era delle acclamazioni digitali, Mimesis, 2025 and the parts indicated in class of vol. 3 Corologia affettiva e didattica immersiva. Esperienze e teorie, Mimesis, 2025. For non-attending students, the text for the written exam is G. Sartor, L'informatica giuridica e le tecnologie dell'informazione, Giappichelli, Torino 2022 .For the oral examination are. P. Heritier, Lo schermo delle norme vol. 2 Male e libertà all’era delle acclamazioni digitali Mimesis, 2025 e Vol. 3. Corologia affettiva e didattica immersiva. Esperienze e teorie, Mimesis, 2025.

Knowledge and Understanding - The course aims to analyze the textual and legal matrices of the notion of the network in the evolution of technological thought to arrive at an analysis of contemporary problems of the notion of law. Against some reductive and outdated readings, which think of law as the phenomenon of a norm set by the state that applies to a new technological context, there is a need to radically transform the conception of the role of the jurist within technological issues of information technology and artificial intelligence, in order to train legal professions capable of adopting a purposeful approach to the problems that rapid technological evolution poses to legal knowledge and computer scientists capable of understanding in depth the nature of legal science and its proximity to computer knowledge. The course comprises 40 hours of face-to-face teaching, which also includes seminar-style sessions. The number of hours each student dedicates to study, whilst adhering to the prescribed standards, varies according to each student’s learning ability.

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Alongside traditional lectures, the course will include research activities aimed at developing critical reasoning skills, including through the use of AI
. The course includes the use of images, video materials, and immersive experiences in Center SIMNOVA .

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Examination will be conducted in oral form. The written examination is mainly aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of the basic concepts of legal informatics and artificial intelligence applied to law, and an adequate form of written expression. The oral examination is aimed at ascertaining the acquisition of an ability to read critically, not merely mnemonically, the content related to digital justice and the metaverse. A topic, related to the course, resulting from the student's individual critical analysis, may optionally be presented during the oral examination (for students who have passed the written with a grade of 27/30 or higher). There will be times to ascertain understanding of the course content during the class period.To achieve a pass, students must be able to present the topics and course content analysed correctly; to achieve excellence, they must develop a critical approach to these same topics and the ability to expand on the content learnt. Between the level of attainment corresponding to mere knowledge or mere competence and that of the corresponding mark within a score band, the numerical assessment expressed by the teacher in the evaluation indicates the student’s actual attainment of critical thinking.

Building on the social studies of science analyzed in the first part of the course, it will elaborate a notion of the network of law within the framework of general legal theory capable of taking up the reticular conception of the text found in the glossators, to the point of showing its proximity to the notion of hypertext underlying the HTLM language. At the same time, it will be shown how the recent evolution of legal knowledge and the increased role of jurisprudence configure the legal system as a reticular model that has profound affinities with the information theory epistemologically underlying the development of computer networks. The analysis will then focus on the link between the historical evolution of the notion of legal person and the more sensitive issues of internal and external social robotics and 'living with robots' as a specific feature of contemporary society. The course will analyze the impact of big data, surveillance capitalism, sentiment analysis, social networks, and the aesthetic and media component of the normative on the evolution of contemporary legal systems and the legislation governing these areas, with a focus on digital privacy, use of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and smart contracts. With regard to issues of gender, disability, inclusion, critical thinking and decolonial thought, my afterword to W. Franke’s book *Social Identities and Social Justice* will be analysed and made available. Redefining Ethics and Politics in the Wake of ‘Wokeism’, Mimesis, Milan 2027, and the focus on the ongoing experimentation with disability reform in the ‘Recent Articles’ section of the journal *Theory and Critique of Social Regulation* https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/tcrs/issue/view/54
We will also discuss the risks to the preservation of democracy and freedom of thought posed by the authoritarian imposition of content – even where the substance of that content is entirely commendable – in relation to the introduction of specific ethical and political objectives, particularly the backlash that this imposition, as opposed to gradual cultural acquisition, may have on common sense and public opinion.

Knowledge - Knowledge of the indicated topics, with emphasis on epistemology, hermeneutics and legal aesthetics, media theory, sentiment analysis, social robotics, use of AI for law. Development of independent critical skills in each of the indicated fields. Competencies - Development of critical skills related to the regulation of artificial intelligence in law, big data, digital and social network privacy. Development of autonomous source research and appropriate communication in scholarly and media contexts on these topics. Skills - Development of basic legal competence in the analysis of social interaction and the human-machine relationship, ability to identify hidden legal problems in the adoption of innovative technologies, improved ability to communicate effectively in an interdisciplinary design and programming context with experts of knowledge different from one's own.