Suggested Competences and Skills required for study in the Information Society

Purpose: this list indicates the skills and knowledge which we believe are required by postgraduate students (LLM and PhD) who are undertaking study in the field of Law and ICT. Legal ICT is a particularly broad and complex area requiring skills which are based upon traditional legal knowledge but extended to cover methodological and technical fields.

Knowledge based elements:

• Information Technology Law
• The Characteristics of the Information Society
• ICT and the Changing Legal Professions in The Information Society
• Understanding of Professional ICT practice and business structure
• Understanding of ICT Soft Law (e.g. Codes Of Practices)
• Understanding the role of electronic administration in Government
• Investigative Social Science Methods
• The physical and virtual structure of the internet
• Systems and networks security basics

Skill based elements:

• Producing Written Reports
• Accessing legal texts
• Interpretation and application of legal texts in context
• Presenting information visually and orally
• Presenting information via multimedia
• Using ICT in research

The list was composed by Manuel Masseno (Beja), Pilar Lasala (Zaragoza), Philip Leith (Belfast) and Fernando Galindo (Zaragoza)

All Comments and proposals are very wellcome!