Diploma in
Forensic Legal Informatics and Artificial Intelligence

General Objective

To provide students, including lawyers and systems and telecommunications engineers, with the theoretical and practical tools to specialize in the most current sector of Computer Law and New Technologies (Legaltech), which is the role of Legal Informatics, focused on computer applications of interest to the world of law, which is now in the foreground, due to advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Specific objectives

• To provide participants with a complete theoretical and practical training in all areas of Legal Informatics, such as Legal Databases, management systems for different types of legal offices, from micro levels, such as a law firm, to macro levels, such as E-Government and E-Justice; as well as Artificial Intelligence systems applied to Law.
• To offer practical theoretical training in the construction and management of some of the most important legal databases in Latin America, as well as others, freely accessible through the Internet, on the law of the European Union and its main countries, such as Spain.
• To raise at the macro level (E-Governance and E-Justice) the relationship with management systems for law firms, especially in Latin America, as well as at the micro level, in office automation systems that are at the service of the legal profession and other legal professions. 
• To provide an overview of the evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), from the first Expert Systems to the latest generation, designed for self-learning (Machine Learning and Deep Learning),
• To analyze the practical perspective of the social impact of programs that, like Chat GPT, have popularized AI, as well as the impact of such software on the law.
• To study the consequences of modern robotics (intimately linked to AI) on The Social State and, consequently, on the legal system, with special attention to AI in other relevant topics, such as global cybersecurity, seen from the perspective of International Law, or its implication in the posthuman phenomenon, in an interdisciplinary perspective, complemented by robotics and biotechnology.

• Law Professionals and Students.
• Systems Engineering Professionals and Students
• Telecommunications Engineering Professionals and Students
• Information and Communications Technology Engineering Professionals and Students
• Engineering and Computer Science Professionals and Students
• Software Engineering Professionals and Students  
• Professionals from different fields of knowledge.

Dr. Emilio Suñe Llinás  (Spain)

Doctor cum laude in Law (1985) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), with a Doctoral Thesis on "La Potestad" directed by Dr. José Luis Villar Palasí. He studied Law at the UCM and graduated in 1979 with an Extraordinary Prize. In 1979 he also graduated in Political Science. Since 1983 he was Head of IT Project at EPIMSA (currently ICM) where he created and assumed the legal direction of the regulatory and parliamentary databases of the Community of Madrid. He was a member of the Informatics Commission of the Ministry and of the support group for the development of the Iberlex database (BOE). He was also Director of Informatics of the General Council of Notaries and Legal Advisor of the Electronic Patronage Asimelec. Director of the prestigious Master in Computer Science and Law, he has participated as a speaker at the most important Spanish and international events.

Dr. Teresa Genoveva Vargas Osorno (Colombia)

Doctor Cum Laude in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid, Lawyer of the Externado University of Colombia, specialized in Computer Law with 30 years of experience in the area of Computer Science and Law. For many years she was the Director of the Department of Computer Law and New Technologies of the Universidad Externado de Colombia. Creator and Co-Director of the Master's Degree and Specialization in Computer Law and New Technologies. Creator of eleven legal databases and research center CIDI qualified by COLCIENCIAS.

Dr. Francisco José Santamaria Ramos (Spain)

D. cum laude in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). His doctoral thesis won the runner-up prize in the XV edition of the Personal Data Protection Research Award granted by the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos). He studied Law at the UCM and graduated in 2002. In 2004 he studied the Master in Computer Science and Law at the UCM where he graduated with the Prize for Qualifications. Researcher in the area of Computer Law, he actively collaborates with the Computer Law Research Center (CIDI) of the Universidad Externado de Colombia.

Lic. Nicolas Hoyos Vargas (Colombia)

Lawyer of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with emphasis in international commercial law and damages, leader monitor of the conciliation center of the legal office of the same University in which he contributed to the digitalization of the processes of the center, excellent trajectory in law firms such as M&P Abogados S.A.S. of Colombia, currently Legal Director of the prestigious company Intraplas S.A.S.

Dr. Juan Emilio Suñe Cano (Spain)

Doctor cum laude in Law by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UMC), Interuniversity Master in Intelligence Analyst by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC) and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Master in Ibero-American International Relations, by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC), Collaborator of the Center for Iberoamerican Studies, Member of the Research Group in Computer Law of the Universidad Externado de Colombia, Member of the International Network of Jurists for the American Integration, Referee of the ARAUCARIA Magazine, Iberoamerican Magazine of Philosophy, Politics, Humanities and International Relations. Researcher in the area of knowledge of Computer Law.

The course is divided into 10 modules, each of 12 hours, taught by the most prestigious faculty, according to the following:

MODULE I: Legal Informatics and Computer Law. 

MODULE II: Legal Databases

MODULE III: E-Government in Latin America

MODULE IV: E-Justice and Law Firm Management

MODULE V: Global Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence

MODULE VI: Logic, Law and Artificial Intelligence

MODULE VII: Artificial Intelligence and Law. Current state of the art.

MODULE VIII: Robotics: Implications for the Social State

MODULE IX: Chat GPT. The popularization of Artificial Intelligence and the Law.

MODULE X: AI, Biotechnology and Human Rights: From the Transhuman to the Posthuman

The participant will have the skills to apply innovation and information and communication technologies to face the new challenges of the information society presented by the fourth industrial revolution, providing theoretical and practical elements that will allow knowing and managing the regulation of information systems, addressing technical and legal aspects of new technologies and law.