2016/2017

2018/2019

DM270

IUS/14 (EUROPEAN UNION LAW)

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

COMMUNICATION, INNOVATION, MULTIMEDIA

PERCORSO COMUNE

3°

2nd semester (25/02/2019 - 31/05/2019)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

FALCONI FEDERICA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

For this course, no specific prior knowledge is required.

This course aims at providing students with a comprehensive legal framework about freedom of espression and information, having regard firstly to the European Union level and then focusing on the European Convention on Human Rights.

The course is divided into two parts.

Having provided an overview of the basic features of the European Union legal system, the first part will analyse, by reference to the European Court of Justice case-law, the most relevant sources regarding freedom of information, having regard - inter alia - to the rules aiming at guarantee conditions of fair competition in the internal market of the audiovisual media services, data protection and right to oblivion.

The second part will focus on the European Convention of Human Rights, with a view to analyse the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights concerning freedom of expression and information, particularly as regards the essential role that the press fullfils as a "watchdog" in a democratic society, the reinforced protection of journalists, satire and the ban on hate speech.

The content of the course is mostly delivered by lectures, while encouraging discussion and students' active participation.

- Luigi Daniele, "Diritto dell'Unione Europea", 6th edition, Milano, Giuffrè, 2018 (1-110; 151-332; 421-462);

- Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi, Angela Del Vecchio et al. (eds.), "Il diritto al pluralismo dell'informazione in Europa e in Italia", Roma, Rai Eri, 2012 (23-125; 167-177)

The exam will consist of an oral examination in order to evaluate the knowledge gained by students during the course. For students attending the class, as concerns the second part of the course, a short essay may be submitted on a topic chosen by students' themselves.

For further information, write directly to the teacher: federica.falconi@unipv.it.