Advanced Course of Legal Informatics (5op)

Arviointiasteikko

H-5

Tavoitteet

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.

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).

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.