Unit FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS
- Course
- Legal services
- Study-unit Code
- A002850
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- Law and technologies
- Teacher
- Maria Chiara Locchi
- Teachers
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- Maria Chiara Locchi
- Hours
- 42 ore - Maria Chiara Locchi
- 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
- Italian
- Contents
- The course addresses the main legal issues raised by information technologies from a comparative public law perspective, with particular reference to both the challenges posed to the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms and the opportunities and tensions with respect to democratic principles and political representation.
- Reference texts
- Students will be provided with learning materials during the course through Unistudium website.
- Educational objectives
- The aim of the course is to provide students with useful contents for a critical understanding of the implications that new technologies have on legal relations in the public sphere. The use of the comparative method and case analysis will enable students to develop a complex knowledge, attentive to contexts and open to interdisciplinary dialogue.
- Prerequisites
- In order to understand the topics addressed during the course, students must first have a general knowledge of public and constitutional law.
- Teaching methods
- The prevailing teaching method involves classroom lectures with the use of slides. In-depth seminars will be also planned with the involvement of scholars from other Italian and international universities.
- Other information
- Prof. Locchi is available to attending students, before and after class, for requests for clarification and information. She receives students in her room (no. 39 ex Dept. of Public Law) every Monday from 11.00 to 13.00. It is in any case possible to arrange an appointment by contacting Prof. Locchi by email: maria.locchi@unipg.it.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam includes a final oral test, both for attending and non-attending students, which consists of a discussion-colloquium relating to the topics covered in the reference texts.
For attending students, participation in (group or individual) classroom presentations related to specific texts provided by the teacher will be considered for the purposes of the final exam.
The test is designed to ascertain students' level of knowledge, comprehension and synthesis skills, as well as their ability to properly communicate the contents acquired.
The duration of the exam and the number of questions asked by the teacher vary depending on the progress of the test.
For information on support services for students with disabilities and/or DSA visit http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- The course consists of two parts.
In the First part of the course the basic features of some comparative public law concepts and instruments will be introduced, to the extent they are useful to the in-depth study of the issues addressed in the second part of the course. In particular, the following contents will be addressed: comparative public law: notion and methods; constitution and constitutionalism; forms of state and forms of government; rights, freedoms and guarantees.
In the Second part the course will focus on the impact of Information technologies on some fundamental rights and freedoms, with an approach that includes both a general and systematic analysis of the main transformations and problematic issues and the presentation of single case studies.
In particular, the following aspects will be covered:
1) Press, broadcasting system and new media: challenges to the freedom of expression and information; the new speech crimes: hate speech, fake news and cancel culture;
2) Right to privacy: origins and evolution; information technologies and privacy: the right to data protection; the right to erasure/to be forgotten.
3) Information technology, transparency of decision-making processes and democratic participation: e-government and e-democracy; digital populism and the crisis of political representation; the complex role of social media in autocratic states.
4) Artificial Intelligence: the various types of AI and the different legal implications; constitutionalism and AI: digital sovereignty and transnational regulatory models; challenges for the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Goal n. 4 - Quality Education.
Goal n. 10 - Reduced Inequalities.
Goal n. 11- Sustainable cities and communities.
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS
| Code | A002850 |
|---|---|
| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 2 |
| Teacher | Maria Chiara Locchi |
| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline giuridiche d'impresa e settoriali |
| Academic discipline | IUS/21 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS
| Code | A002850 |
|---|---|
| Location | PERUGIA |
| CFU | 4 |
| Teacher | Maria Chiara Locchi |
| Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
| Area | Discipline giuridiche d'impresa e settoriali |
| Academic discipline | IUS/21 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |