INFORMATICS OF LAW

Course Code: DR I 13 • Study year: I • Academic Year: 2022-2023
Domain: Law • Field of study: Law
Type of course: Compulsory
Language of instruction: Romanian
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Seminar tutor: Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Class
Number of teaching hours per semester: 28
Number of teaching hours per week: 2
Semester: Summer
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 4

Course aims:

• Understanding of the relationship between information and date of the information and computer, between the equipment and the computer program of system and subsystem of computing and computer.
• Understanding the concept of the information society.
• Learning how to operate the PC and effective use of the main tools for text editing, spreadsheets, presentations, access, communication and Internet searches.
• Understanding of the principles and basic rules of search techniques relevant legal data (doctrine, jurisprudence, law).

Course Entry Requirements:

• Understanding the importance of correct and efficient use of equipment and software in everyday life, especially in the legal profession. • Manifestation of a positive and responsible attitudes towards continuous training in computer taken as part

Course contents:

• Information society. • The legal protection of computer programs. • Offences computer. • LEGIS. • Electronic signature. • Safety and certification. • Information security. • Director PKI profile GED. • Name-based Internet domain name. • Offences against computer data and systems. • Computer crimes. Analysis and synthesis of cam mechanisms.

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Learning outcomes:

• Legal Informatics and specific knowledge of the main methods used in legal informatics. • The skills training design and implement a concrete computer searches. • Build capacities and attitudes investigating realities in legal informatics and application of research results in legal development programs. • Forming an open epistemic attitudes and innovative legal informatics.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written paper – interpretative essay – 40%; continuous assessment – 60%.

Recommended reading:

Vasiu I. Şi Vasiu L.,,  Informatica juridică şi Drept informatic, Editura Albastră, , Cluj Napoca , 2001
Vasiu I,,  Criminalitatea Informatică, Editura Nemira, , Bucureşti, , 2001
Vasiu I. Şi Vasiu L.,,  Totul despre hackeri, Editura Nemira, , Bucureşti , 2001
Melanie S. Brodnik (Editor), Rebecca Reynolds (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mary Cole McCain (Editor), Laurie A. Rinehart-Thompson (Editor), Fundamentals of Law for Health Informatics and Health Information Management, AHIMA , 2009 , 528
Bankowski, Z., White, I., Hahn, Ulrike (Eds.), Informatics and the Foundations of Legal Reasoning, Springer Netherlands , 1995 , 376