The Course aims at conducting a comparative analysis of some of the key institutions of private law, including contract and tort, and their role in digital markets. By introducing students to the comparative methodology in the study of law, it furthers a better understanding of national law and it aims at developing critical and analytical tools through which students will be able to identify and research relevant issues in the private law of digital markets, through a direct approach to normative, jurisprudential and doctrinal sources of foreign and supranational law.
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Mutuazione: 20110472 Comparative Law of Digital Markets in Scienze giuridiche per le nuove tecnologie LM/SC-GIUR R RESTA GIORGIO
Programme
This course will provide an overview of the major issues related to the impact of digitalisation, interconnected networks, and artificial intelligence on contemporary law. Namely, it will focus on data-driven innovation and will explore the complex relationship between social and technological change and the evolution of the law. Controversial issues such as the regulation of digital platforms, decision making by algorithms, ownership of data, liquid surveillance, Internet of things, privacy in the social networks, smart contracting, liability in the cyberspace, will be analysed and discusses from a comparative law perspective. The main aim of the course is to provide an up-to-date overview about the major legal issues raised by the advent of digital technologies.Core Documentation
The exam must be prepared using the materials made available by the instructor on the e-learning platform.Type of evaluation
Presentations and class activities (up to 10 points – 1/3 of the final grade); final written exam closed books (up to 20 points – 2/3 of the final grade). teacher profile teaching materials
Mutuazione: 20110472 Comparative Law of Digital Markets in Scienze giuridiche per le nuove tecnologie LM/SC-GIUR R RESTA GIORGIO
Programme
This course will provide an overview of the major issues related to the impact of digitalisation, interconnected networks, and artificial intelligence on contemporary law. Namely, it will focus on data-driven innovation and will explore the complex relationship between social and technological change and the evolution of the law. Controversial issues such as the regulation of digital platforms, decision making by algorithms, ownership of data, liquid surveillance, Internet of things, privacy in the social networks, smart contracting, liability in the cyberspace, will be analysed and discusses from a comparative law perspective. The main aim of the course is to provide an up-to-date overview about the major legal issues raised by the advent of digital technologies.Core Documentation
The exam must be prepared using the materials made available by the instructor on the e-learning platform.Type of evaluation
Presentations and class activities (up to 10 points – 1/3 of the final grade); final written exam closed books (up to 20 points – 2/3 of the final grade).