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Legal Informatics

Author: Giovanni Ziccardi
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035321155

Published In: December 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

Preface

PART I. THE ORIGINS, THE EVOLUTION AND THE FUTURE OF LEGAL INFORMATICS

The fundamental role of legal informatics in the digital society

The jurist and the cloud and big data ecosystem

PART II. COMPUTER ETHICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CYBERSECURITY

Legal informatics, computer ethics and artificial intelligence

The jurist and cybersecurity

PART III. THE NEW FRONTIERS OF LEGAL INFORMATICS: LEGAL DESIGN, LEGAL PROMPTING, LEGAL TECH, CODING FOR LAWYERS, DEONTOLOGY AND LEGAL DRAFTING

Legal design, legal tech and coding for lawyers

Legal informatics, deontology and the secrecy of the profession

Documentary and managerial legal informatics

Conclusions