The Joint International
Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology is an
interdisciplinary
integrated program designed to address the new legal,
socio-ethical, and technical challenges posed by the
information society and the newly emerging technologies. The
NEXA Center for Internet & Society is an Associate Partner
of LAST-JD. The NEXA Center will collaborate to the development
of the curriculum, suggesting topics for courses, seminars and
theses, and offer internships to interested candidates.
The program covers three different research fields with its
curricula:
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Bioethics and Biolaw, which looks at the legal and
ethical issues arising in connection with advances in biology
and medicine;
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ICT Law, addressing the legal risks and opportunities
in ICT;
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Legal Informatics, an area of informatics that takes
law as its subject matter, developing techniques with which to
manage the legal domain.
This program promotes European excellence, innovation, and
competitiveness in such critical legal and ethical fields as the
regulation of privacy, genomics and biobanks, e-government,
e-health and e-commerce, the right of free speech on the
Internet and intellectual property rights (IPR) with respect to
the new technologies. Moreover, the program furthers the design
of new software to support the legal profession, including
systems based on the explicit representation of laws and
regulations in a computable form, as well as systems for
checking compliance with international, European, and national
legalframeworks and systems in AI & Law.
Details are available online at
http://www.last-jd.eu/?page_id=46