INTERNET LAW AND E-COMMERCE

The course is an interdisciplinary activity of the Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Business.
The course aims to describe the main ways in which the economic and personal activities take legal form in INTERNET, rather than in markets and in the real world of material relationships. In particular, the aim of the course will focus on the European strategies relating to the Digital Single Market, whith reference to the implementation of e-commerce and cross-border trade; and later to the regulation and protection of Personal data (Regulation UE GDPR 2016/679), also with regard to the main legal issues raised by social media (Facebook and other).

1. Knowledge and understandings
1.1 Understand the multilevel legal system which governs the today private relationships on Internet.
1.2 Knowledge of the legal institutions object of the program of the course.
1.3 Understand the role of the studied legal institutions and how they govern private relationships and conflicts on Internet.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understandings
2.1 Ability to set relationship with juridical relevance, both personal and economic, in the legal frame.
2.2 Ability to find the legal provisions applicable to a certain situation.
2.3 Ability to determine which legal provision finds application to solve conflicts or regulate a certain human relationship (both economic and personal).

3. Judgment
3.1 Being able to interpret legal provisions in a multilevel context.
3.2 Being able to identify, distinguish, relate different principles and legal provisions belonging to different sources of the multilevel system.
3.3 Facing a hypothetical conflict o private relationship, finding the provisions or the institutions to solve or manage the situation.

None prerequisite is required. Useful the basic knowledge of private law.

Law and economics in the age of new technologies: digital sovereignty.
- EU strategies for the digital single market and the governance of digital platforms (GDPR, DSA,DMA,DGA,DA, AIACT)
- The problem of protection of the person and fundamental freedoms in telematic networks. The protection of personal data and the role of independent authorities.
- The regulation of artificial intelligence
- Electronic commerce and consumer protection

Giusella Finocchiaro, Internet Law, Zanichelli Editore Bologna, latest edition (2023) limited to the following chapters:
- Ch. 1
- Ch. 2
- Ch. 5
- Ch. 6
- Ch. 7
Other materials will be uploaded to the course Moodle page.

The examination will be oral: during the interview, the student's adequate learning of the topics covered in the course will be verified, including through the possible presentation by the student of case studies and/or specific issues of interest on which he or she has felt to make a personal investigation.

Lectures
Case discussions - workshops
Seminars and testimonials

Italian

Further information will be available on the e-learning platform (Moodle)

https://moodle.unive.it/course/view.php?id=4835
Additional materials (e.g. summaries, further readings, sample tests) will be made available online to the students.
Accessibility, Disability and Inclusion
Accommodation and support services for students with disabilities and students with specific learning impairments
Ca' Foscari abides by Italian Law (Law 17/1999; Law 170/2010) regarding support services and accommodation available to students with disabilities. This includes students with mobility, visual, hearing and other disabilities (Law 17/1999), and specific learning impairments (Law 170/2010). If you have a disability or impairment that requires accommodations (i.e., alternate testing, readers, note takers or interpreters) please contact the Disability and Accessibility Offices in Student Services: disabilita@unive.it.

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