Curso de Atualização em Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação

Centro DTIBR's Curso de Atualização em Direito, Tecnologia e Inovação (Update Course on Law, Technology and Innovation) aims to bring legal professionals up to date on the aspects of technology that are increasingly present in the practice of Law.

The faculty will consist of professors holding doctorates from several schools of UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais), such as Law, Computer Science (DCC), Economics (FACE) and Biology, and from other renowned institutions. Among them are:

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  Carlos Affonso Pereira de Souza (opens in a new tab)

  ITS Rio

  PhD and Master's in Civil Law from the Rio de Janeiro State University (Uerj). Professor at the UERJ Law School and at PUC-Rio, teaching subjects such as Law and Technology, Contract Law and Legal History. Visiting Researcher at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School. Member of the Copyright Committee of OAB/RJ (Rio de Janeiro Bar Association) since 2007. Policy Fellow at the NGO Access. Consultant to the Internet Observatory in Brazil, an initiative of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br). Co-founder and director of ITS Rio.

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  Leonardo Parentoni (opens in a new tab)

  Centro DTIBR and UFMG - Law

  PhD in Law from USP (University of São Paulo). Master's in Business Law and Bachelor of Laws from UFMG. Associate Professor at the UFMG Law School and Full Professor at IBMEC/MG. Founder and Scientific Advisor of the Center for Research in Law, Technology and Innovation - DTIBR. Areas of expertise: 1) Law, Technology and Innovation; 2) Corporate Law; 3) Empirical Legal Studies.

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  Santuza Maria Ribeiro Teixeira (opens in a new tab)

  UFMG - Biology; Specialist in gene editing with the CRISPR method

  Bachelor's in Biological Sciences from the University of Brasília (1982), Master's in Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology) from the University of Brasília (1985) and PhD in Biochemistry from the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland (1990). She has research experience in Molecular Biology, working mainly on the following topics: molecular parasitology and parasite genomics, with emphasis on studies of gene expression regulation, parasite-host interactions, antigen discovery, genetic variability and DNA repair in Trypanosoma cruzi.

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  Dorgival Guedes Neto (opens in a new tab)

  UFMG – DCC; Director General of IT at UFMG

  Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering (1988) and Master's in Computer Science (1992) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais; Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Arizona, Tucson (1999). He was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute and at the University of California at Berkeley during 2011. He is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, where he has been since 2002. He currently heads UFMG's Information Technology Directorate (DTI). He has experience in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, including aspects of Cybersecurity.

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  Ricardo Machado Ruiz (opens in a new tab)

  UFMG - FACE; Former commissioner of CADE

  Bachelor's in Economics from the State University of Campinas (1988). Master's in Economic Science from the State University of Campinas (1994). Ph.D. in Economics from The New School for Social Research (2003). Commissioner of CADE - the Brazilian Antitrust Agency - from 01/2010 to 02/2014. He has experience in Economics on the following topics: industrial organization, industrial economics, technological change, antitrust policy and regulation, economics and regional development.

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  Renato César Cardoso (opens in a new tab)

  UFMG - Law

  Associate Professor, full-time, at the UFMG Law School, in the undergraduate programs in Law and in State Sciences, as well as in the Graduate Program in Law, where he supervises master's and doctoral students; he also supervises master's students in UFMG's Graduate Program in Neurosciences. His research focuses mainly on Philosophy of Law, Neurolaw, Neuroethics, Legal Theory, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Legal Psychology, and Political Philosophy and Philosophy of the State.

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  Rainer Couto (opens in a new tab)

  Centro DTIBR

  Master's in Economic Law from UFMG. He also holds a Master's in Computer Science from UFMG and Bachelor's degrees in Law and in Computer Science from the same institution. Developer of software, web applications and mobile apps, with more than 10 years of industry experience. He currently focuses on research into technologies applied to Law.

The course covers, among others, the following topics:

• How the Internet Works Technically: Network Architecture and Cryptography;
• The Marco Civil da Internet (Brazil's Internet Civil Rights Framework);
• Programming Basics for Lawyers, Data Mining and Jurimetrics;
• Privacy, Data Protection and Big Data;
• Startups: Legal and Financial Structuring;
• Blockchain: How it works technically and its legal applications;
• Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and legal dilemmas.

• Multidisciplinary faculty with extensive experience;
• Certificate of participation;
• Limited number of places (focus on participants and networking opportunities);
• Comprehensive, current topics covered in depth;
• Practical focus and case studies;
• Supplementary online material;
• Price below the market standard, since Centro DTIBR is a non-profit institution;
• Offered only once a year.

Workload

30 hours.

Times

Fridays, 7:15 pm to 10:00 pm, and Saturdays, 9:00 am to 11:45 am.

Dates

April 6, 12, 13, 26 and 27; May 3, 4, 10, 11 and 24, 2019.

Course venue

Semear Innovation Auditorium (ground floor).

Address

Rua Paraíba, 330, 1st floor, Funcionários neighborhood, CEP (postal code) 30130-917, Belo Horizonte/MG.