Legal Informatics (Principles of Information Law series) - Hardcover

Ziccardi, Giovanni

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1035321157 ISBN 13: 9781035321155

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

In this timely book, Giovanni Ziccardi presents a structured analytical overview of legal informatics as a discipline that connects legal professionals to the digital landscape. He analyses the transformative impact of technology and artificial intelligence (AI) on the field, including improved accessibility to information and greater efficiency in justice administration.

Legal Informatics addresses key topics encompassing the evolution of legal databases, the role of AI in aiding legal decision-making and research, and the ethical challenges posed by automation, such as increased bias. It explores how enhanced data analysis fosters understanding of legal applications and patterns, and the implications of cybersecurity risks, including privacy and rights concerns. Ziccardi examines the use of big data, the growing role of cloud computing, and digital computer ethics in practice. Ultimately, he positions technology as central to the present and future of law, while grounding it in the field’s history and pioneers.

Assessing the complex benefits and drawbacks of digital technologies on the legal system, this book is a vital resource for scholars and students of internet and technology law, and information and media law. It is also beneficial for jurists, lawyers, and judges who are looking to expand their digital literacy.

About this title

About the Author

Giovanni Ziccardi, Professor of Legal Informatics and Director of the Information Society Law Research Center, Faculty of Law, University of Milan, Italy

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035321157
• ISBN 13: 9781035321155
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368