The course deals with the study of the fundamental legal principles and categories that revolve around the phenomenon of the digitization of society, the development of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Digital Coins and Crypto-assets, Blockchain and Smart Contracts. This with a particular regard to the (Italian, European, International) sources of law, to the technological innovation, to the organization of relations on the Internet and in online-markets. Lessons will focus on the main legal problems of the digitalization through the basic categories of the fundamental rights, subjects and juridical situations, objects, autonomy of parties, specific contracts and liability.
teacher profile teaching materials
1) The digital era. Informatics and law
2) Hardware, software and algorithms
3) Networks and Internet
4) From the right to privacy to the right to the protection of personal data
5) The evolution of the concepts of "document" and "subscription"
6) Electronic payments and digital currency
7) E-commerce
8) "Internet of Thing"
9) "Cloud computing" and "edge computing"
10) "Big Data"
11) "Blockchain" and "Smart Contract"
12) Artificial intelligence and robotics
13) "Internet Service Provider"
14) Deterritorialization
15) Destatualization
16) Dematerialization
17) Contract and technique
Special part: Smart Contracts and contract law. Blockchain and its application.
1) Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain and Smart Contracts
2) The intervention of the Community legislator in the field of DTL and Smart Contracts
3) Contract law and Smart Contracts
4) Smart Contracts and consumer protection
5) Smart Contracts and way of intervention by the legislator
6) Smart Contract and "fair contract". The role of the legal engineering and the legal design.
7) Use of Smart Contracts in the financial market: ICO's and the intervention of Consob
8) Use of Smart Contracts in energy market: Smart Grids and Smart Meters. The protection of the Prosumer.
9) Blockchain in Agrifood, Urban and Energy
For the Special Part: M. MAUGERI, Smart Contracts and Contract Law, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021, pp. 118-180.
Programme
General part: Private Law in the digital era1) The digital era. Informatics and law
2) Hardware, software and algorithms
3) Networks and Internet
4) From the right to privacy to the right to the protection of personal data
5) The evolution of the concepts of "document" and "subscription"
6) Electronic payments and digital currency
7) E-commerce
8) "Internet of Thing"
9) "Cloud computing" and "edge computing"
10) "Big Data"
11) "Blockchain" and "Smart Contract"
12) Artificial intelligence and robotics
13) "Internet Service Provider"
14) Deterritorialization
15) Destatualization
16) Dematerialization
17) Contract and technique
Special part: Smart Contracts and contract law. Blockchain and its application.
1) Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain and Smart Contracts
2) The intervention of the Community legislator in the field of DTL and Smart Contracts
3) Contract law and Smart Contracts
4) Smart Contracts and consumer protection
5) Smart Contracts and way of intervention by the legislator
6) Smart Contract and "fair contract". The role of the legal engineering and the legal design.
7) Use of Smart Contracts in the financial market: ICO's and the intervention of Consob
8) Use of Smart Contracts in energy market: Smart Grids and Smart Meters. The protection of the Prosumer.
9) Blockchain in Agrifood, Urban and Energy
Core Documentation
For the General part, ask the Professor for English lectures.For the Special Part: M. MAUGERI, Smart Contracts and Contract Law, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2021, pp. 118-180.
Reference Bibliography
Ask the Professor for further lectures about specific issues.Type of delivery of the course
Frontal lessons. Court's cases. Business use cases.Type of evaluation
The exam consists of a final oral test aimed at verifying the knowledge of the basic categories of private law and the logic underlying them, as well as the attitude of the student in applying them in the contest of the digital era, specially with regard to the DLT, Blockchain, Smart Contracts and Digital currencies.