Unit
- Course
- Legal services
- Study-unit Code
- A002978
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- Law and technologies
- Teacher
- Maria Cristina Carta
- Teachers
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- Maria Cristina Carta
- Hours
- 42 ore - Maria Cristina Carta
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- Part I
- The foundations of the European Integration Project;
- The foundational values and the aim of integrating people;
- Fragmentation of state sovereignty into the process of integration;
- The acquisition of membership;
- Withdrawal;
- The system of competences;
- The principles of attribution and institutional balance;
- The European Parliament; the European Council and the Council; the Commission; the Court of Justice;
- Sources of law; Hierarchy of norms; primary and secondary law; direct and indirect effects;
- Law making procedures;
Part II
- Artificial Intelligence;
- Online Dispute Resolution, Privacy & Personal Data Protection;
- The Data Protection Officer;
- GDPR;
- The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU;
- Transfer of personal data to a third country or an international organisation: the elements evaluated by the European Commission to verify the adequacy of protection;
- People’s privacy rights;
- The Court of Justice’s case law on data protection. - Reference texts
- For students who attend the lessons the text-books to study for the exam are:
R. Baratta, Institution of EU law, Wolters Kluwer, 2023, limited to the following parts:
Part I Chap. I, II; Part II Chap. I, III; Part III Chap. I, IV, V, VI, VII; Part IV Chap. I, II, III. IV, V, VI;
- V. Papakonstantinou & P. De Hert, The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU, in https://techreg.org/article/view/11459/13679 or, alternatively
- D. Mügge, The securitization of the EU’s digital tech regulation, in https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/13501763.2023.2171090?needAccess=true&role=button;
For students who do NOT attend the lessons, the text-books to study for the exam are:
- R. Baratta, Institution of eu law, Wolters Kluwer, 2023 (entire book).
- V. Papakonstantinou & P. De Hert, The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU, in https://techreg.org/article/view/11459/13679;
- D. Mügge, The securitization of the EU’s digital tech regulation, in https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/13501763.2023.2171090?needAccess=true&role=button;
Further reading materials will be recommended during classes and uploaded on the website Unistudium. - Educational objectives
- The aims of the course can be listed as it follows:
1.Giving students a complete knowledge about European Union Law and developing the ability of understanding of the process of European integration and of the rules and principles which regulate the relationship between EU law and national law.
2. Developing the ability to work with principles and legal rules, in a personal and thoughtful way. Students will be expected to successfully apply the legal notions learnt during the course to practical cases, through the study of official documents of the EU and, in particular, of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
3. Improving students' independent thinking, convincingly debating and putting forward arguments with respect to the subjects of the course.
4. Acquiring legal terminology skills. Students are expected to express the knowledge acquired during the course in a coherent, well-argued fashion as well as with proper legal terminology.
5. Developing autonomous learning skills, so that - once they have acquired the basic skills - students can further develop and update their knowledge of EU law, by applying the legislative framework as well as the relevant case law, also at a national level.
6. Giving students notions which can be useful for them in a multi-disciplinary prospective;
7. Developing a background of knowledge and competences which can be useful for students' professional careers (as lawyers, judges, etc.);
8. Provide students with a basic understanding of the relationship between law and new technologies with a focus on artificial intelligence and the protection of personal data. - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to follow and fully understand the course, an adequate knowledge of constitutional law and digital technologies is recommended.
- Teaching methods
- The course will be mainly taught mostly through lectures and, in part, in teleteaching.
The lessons offer a complete picture of the topics above listed; attendance allows the development of the notions and competences required to pass the exam. Course materials indicated by the lecturer during class will be uploaded to the course's Unistudium website.
Some of the lectures may be held by scholars, lawyers, experts.
Lectures may be supplemented by seminars and case studies, whose organization will be reported to the students, so that they can participate.
The organization of seminars or conferences on topics related to teaching will be punctually reported to attending students interested, in order to encourage their participation.
Case studies, presentations, simulation games will be available for attending students, as part of a dynamic process of learning, involving interactive feedback between the learner and educator.
Attendance of the course is optional, although recommended. - Other information
- Students are expected to acquire an understanding of the European Union as a legal phenomenon and the proper technical language necessary to describe it. They will become familiar with the EU institutional framework, decision-making process, sources and their effects, and will become capable to apply the knowledge acquired by critically assessing real-life cases, in order to understand whether the EU can act in a given scenario, which kind of decisions it can adopt, when EU legislation applies, which right/obligation it establishes and for whom.
By the end of the course, students will be expected to have acquired:
- an adequate knowledge and understanding of the European integration process and of the rules and principles which regulate the relationship between EU and national law;
- the ability to work with principles and legal rules, as well as to apply the notions learnt to practical cases;
- the ability to interpret the legal rules studied and to take properly argued and legally sound positions on the subjects of the course;
- a deep knowledge of the legal terminology related to EU law;
- the basic skills to further develop and update their knowledge of EU law;
- a basic knowledge on European digital law, artificial intelligence and data protection.
The student reception takes place both in presence and at a distance. Students are requested to contact the professor by e-mail (mariacristina.carta@unipg.it) to schedule the day and time of the Teams reception, according to specific needs. - Learning verification modality
- The final exam will be oral (both for students who attended the course and for those who did not), and the grade will be expressed in thirtieths (/30), with the possibility of attributing honors. The criteria for assessing the oral exam include the correctness of the contents, the clarity of the argumentations put forward, the ability to provide a critical analysis and to work with principles and notions.
Students with learning disorders ("disturbi specifici di apprendimento", DSA) will be allowed to use specific modalities and supports that will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
For more information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit the website http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- Part I
- The foundations of the European Integration Project;
- The foundational values and the aim of integrating people;
- Fragmentation of state sovereignty into the process of integration;
- Metamorphosis of the concept of sovereignty into the process of integration;
- The acquisition of membership;
- Withdrawal;
- The system of competences: exclusive, shared competences, subsidiary and pre-emption;
- the flexibility clause;
- The principles of attribution and institutional balance;
- Protection of Fundamental Rights. The Lisbon Reform;
- The EU Institutional framework;
The European Parliament; the European Council and the Council; the Commission; the Court of Justice;
- Sources of law; Hierarchy of norms; primary and secondary law; third-tier legal acts; direct and indirect effects; recommendations, opinions and soft-law instruments;
- Law making procedures;
Part II
- Artificial Intelligence;
- Online Dispute Resolution, Privacy & Personal Data Protection;
- The Data Protection Officer;
- GDPR;
- The Regulation of Digital Technologies in the EU;
- Transfer of personal data to a third country or an international organisation: the elements evaluated by the European Commission to verify the adequacy of protection;
- People’s privacy rights;
The Court of Justice’s case law on data protection.
At the end of each lesson the professor is available for clarifications or explanations about the program.
| Code | A002978 |
|---|---|
| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 2 |
| Teacher | Maria Cristina Carta |
| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Giurisprudenza |
| Academic discipline | IUS/14 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Code | A002978 |
|---|---|
| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 4 |
| Teacher | Maria Cristina Carta |
| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Giurisprudenza |
| Academic discipline | IUS/14 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |