Course DR I 13 · Year I · Summer 2025-2026

INFORMATICS OF LAW

Compulsory course in Law, taught by Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea.

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Overview

Lecturer
Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Seminar tutor
Elisabeta Mihaela Ciortea
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Law
Field of study
Law
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.
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

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 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.

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.

Assessment

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

Recommended reading

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