This laboratory is the second stage of the overall didactic structure of Legal Informatics of the LUISS master's degree in Law, which is made up of five preparatory laboratories and a course spread over the first three years. These teaching classes constitute a unitary and progressive path according to a logical itinerary studied in order to implement the student's sensitivity for the mutual interaction between information technology and law. The intent is to train a jurist who can be ready to face the legal challenges of the digital dimension, increasingly pervasive and transversal in every professional sector, and of IT applications in the legal sector. To this end, the student will also have to acquire purely technical and IT knowledge to fully understand the technological phenomena of which he or she may be required to evaluate the legal implications and effects. This is a strategic goal that the Department of Law has set itself, as it is impossible to imagine the figure of a jurist today who is not fully familiar with digital tools and is unable to analyze the impact of the most disruptive technological applications on society, law, markets and institutions at a global level. The overwhelming innovation encouraged by national and European public policies requires versatile professional figures, capable of applying the traditional categories of law to unprecedented technological phenomena, or even of building new ones better able to regulate the present. To do this, it is required an understanding of the basic architecture of networks, as well as the languages of mathematics and the logic of algorithms, in order to be able to read them in the forms of law. Specifically, the Legal informatics laboratory is designed to provide a general introduction to the topics of legal informatics by offering an overview of the main areas of application of the same and of the problems represented by the legal framework of some technological phenomena. One of the main objectives of the course is to educate students about the potential of the effective use of legal database for the purpose of academic or professional research.

Knowledge and comprehension: to achieve knowledge of some cutting-edge topics in the relevant field of study with the appropriate teaching support, general understanding of the legal implications of information technology and its possible applications in the field of law. Applied knowledge and comprehension: devising and sustaining arguments. Making autonomous judgements: collecting and interpreting relevant information and data through the most significant legal databases. Communication skills: communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions. Ability to learn: having developed the skills necessary to undertake subsequent studies with a high degree of autonomy.

I. Legal informatics II. Databases and automated research of sources of law III. Introduction to the applications of legal science in the world of information technology and vice versa

The teaching material consists of the content of the lessons given by the lecturer, related handouts and other materials shared on Luiss Learn.

Acquisition: lectures, podcasts and online quizzes Practice: case study and simulation Investigation: analyzing ideas and information in a range of materials and resources, using legal databases to collect and analyze data and comparing texts Collaboration: small group project, discussing others’ output and building joint output Discussion: seminars, group based class discussion, online forums and synchronous and asynchronous discussion Production: essays, reports, presentations and blogs

The final grade, expressed out of 30, will derive from the evaluation of the following items for the respective percentage share: 20% attendance 10% active participation during classes 50% intermediate tests 20% final exam (written and oral) N.B. The grade obtained at the outcome of the exam of this Laboratory will participate for the share of 1/7 in the final grade which will be attributed to the outcome of the exam of the Macchine intelligenti e diritto (MID1) course and which regularly falls within the curricular average grade of each student.

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