Information Technology Law & Legal Informatics

FACULTY OF LAW

15101053 LEGAL INFORMATICS (8^th Semester) 4 ECTS

Instructor: Assoc. Prof. K. Papageorgiou and Assist. Prof. G. Giannopoulos

Since the academic year 1999-2000, the free elective course "Legal Informatics" is offered during the 8th semester by the Faculty of Law. The course focuses on the problems arising from the interaction of law with Information Technology. Information is placed at the centre of attention and is being examined as a subject-matter worth legal protection. The teaching is divided into two main branches: a) Substantive IT Law and b) Computer Applications in Law (Legal Informatics). The first branch covers the new right to Information Society and its restrictions due to rules concerning: i) the protection of personal data ii) the protection of secrecy of communications and iii) intellectual property. Also the problems of Internet regulation and enforcement of regulation are examined in depth. Furthermore emphasis is given to the new procedures that legislators must tackle, such as the proof of evidence of electronic data, electronic documents and digital signatures, the electronic submission of legal documents etc. The second branch examines the area of Computer Applications In Law by studying the new tools affecting the knowledge of the law in force (e.g. design and analysis of statute and case-law legal databases, retrieval and process of legal data etc.)

The following modules are taught: 1. Introduction to IT Law / Legal Informatics. 2. Introduction to the Technology. 3. Internet Law and Regulation. 4. Cryptography and Digital Signatures 5. Legal Information Systems. 6. Process and retrieval of Legal Data / Information.

Book [1481]: Law & Internet , Ioannis K. Karakostas Details

Book [22768452]: The responsibility of Service Providers on the INTERNET, Giorgos Giannopoulos Details