Advanced Course of Legal Informatics (5op)

Osaamistavoitteet

The aim of this course is to facilitate supplementary information about the specific area of Legal Informatics, particularly concerning with Open Data.

A further aim of the course is to emphasize the interdisciplinary perspective of Legal Informatics research. More specifically, the course seeks to illuminate the interaction of legal norms with ethical, economic and technological aspects.

The course gives the student the basic knowledge concerning the Legal Informatics methodology of research applied for Open Data.

Sisältö

The main focus of the course is to analyse the development of Open Data and Open Government Data (OGD) from an interdisciplinary perspective and to study and point out the legal aspects of OGD together with the interconnected economical and technological issues. The course covers topics such as:

- a comprehensive introduction concerning the concepts of Open Data and OGD;
- the EU legislation concerning the field of OGD, in particular the course examines the recent recast Directive on Open Data and the re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI) Directive 2019/924/EU;
- the legal, economic, technological and ethical issue arising from the opening, dissemination, re-use, exploitation of Open Data datasets at different levels;
- the licences adopted for open data;
- the impact on open data ecosystem of the GDPR;
- the implementation of a sustainable Business Models for Open Data and OGD;
- the relevant technological issues linked with the Semantic Web and OGD;
- open data and AI;
- an overview concerning the methodology of research in Legal Informatics from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Oppimateriaalit

The required reading is comprised of chapters of books, journal articles and relevant EU directives, which will be all available online. More reading will be suggested through the lectures.

Reference literature/legislation/normative:

1. Palmirani, M., Girardi, D., Open Government Data: Legal, Economical and Semantic Web Aspects, in: Saarenpää A., Sztobryn, K. (eds.): Lawyers in the Media Society. The Legal Challenges of the Media Society, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi 2016, pp. 187–205.

2. Biasotti A., Francesconi E., Palmirani M., Sartor G., Vitali F.: Legal Informatics and Management of Legislative Documents, Nazione Unite Press, Roma 2008 (Global Centre for ICT in Parliament Working Paper). (89 pages)
- Directive 2013/37/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 amending Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information, available at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:175:0001:0008:EN:PDF.

- DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/1024 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information (recast), available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32019L1024&from=EN

- Consolidated Version of the Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information, available at: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/consolidated-version-psi-directive-now-available

- Open Data Maturity Report 2019 available at: https://www.europeandataportal.eu/sites/default/files/open_data_maturity_report_2019.pdf

- Commission Notice “Guidelines on recommended standard licences, datasets and charging for the reuse of documents, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/commission-notice-guidelines-recommended-standard-licences-datasets-and-charging-re-use
/>http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-14-840_en.htm

- DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/790 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC, available at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32019L0790&from=EN

- COMMISSION DECISION of 22.2.2019 adopting Creative Commons as an open licence under the European Commission’s reuse policy, available at: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regdoc/rep/3/2019/EN/C-2019-1655-F1-EN-MAIN-PART-1.PDF

- ARTICLE 29 - DATA PROTECTION WORKING PARTY, Opinion 05/2014 on Anonymisation Techniques, available at: https://www.pdpjournals.com/docs/88197.pdf

Lisätiedot

Timing
Lectures (17 hours) will be delivered during the Autumn semester. Written examination for students attending the lectures will be organized in connection with the lectures.

In the Spring semester, the course is available as an essay/written examination course. Exams will take place on specified general examination days of the Faculty of Law. The teacher is available for meeting and discussing with the students about the possible topic of the essay. For further information please contact: dino.girardi@ulapland.fi


Teachers:
Dino Girardi (LL.M, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Lapland & University of Bologna, dino.girardi@ulapland.fi)

Juhana Riekkinen (LL.D. trained on the bench, University Lecturer in Legal Informatics)


Other
This course is part of the Law and Tech package.

Toteutustavat

Alternative 1 (Autumn semester): Lecture course

In addition to attending the lectures (17 h), students are required to either take a written examination or write an essay. In the written examination, the student should answer to a set of open questions based on the lectures and parts of the literature listed above. The set of questions will be delivered during the lectures. Written examination (only for the students actively attending the course) will be arranged during the course.

Alternatively, a student attending the lectures can complete the course by writing an essay. The topic of the essay and the appropriate literature should be discussed with the teacher during the lectures period. The essay is composed by: the title, an abstract, the table of contents and the essay. The complete list of the requirements for the essay will be delivered during the lectures.

Alternative 2 (Spring semester): Completing the course without attending the lectures

Alternatively, the course can be completed either by taking a written examination or by writing an essay without attending the lectures.

If a student wishes to complete the course by taking a written examination without attending the lectures, the written examination consists of set of 4 questions based on the entire literature and legislation listed above.

If a student wishes to complete the course with an essay without attending the lectures, they are required to write an essay of approximately 25 pages (from 9000 up to 10.000 words). The topic of the essay and the appropriate literature should be discussed with the teacher also via email. The complete list of the requirements for the essay will be sent via email to the student.

Suoritustavat

Lecture course (Autumn semester) or written examination/essay (Spring semester).