Oreste Pollicino, When Public Law Goes International

THE ELECTION AS A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF COMPARATIVE LAW AND ACTIVITIES IN JAPAN, KOREA, PORTUGAL AND ISRAEL WILL ENGAGE THE PROFESSOR OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN THE NEXT MONTHS

Oreste Pollicino is the only Italian comparative law scholar to be elected an associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) in 2017. The Academy was founded in The Hague in 1924. This distinguished institution is now headquartered in Paris and bring together jurists whose work take into consideration legal orders and legal systems of the world. Oreste Pollicino is Full Professor at the Department of Law of the Bocconi University. His research seeks to find a balance between the need to regulate the internet and the protection of individuals’ fundamental rights. At the next IACL world congress in Fukuoka, Japan, July 22-28, he will be national rapporteur along with professor Virgilio D’Antonio. They will focus on the evolution (and involution) of national legislation, jurisprudence and practice on the issue of the “right to be forgotten”.
 
“It is extremely important to ascertain whether and to what extent the European solution protecting the right to be forgotten as opposed to the protection of the right to be informed has been taken into account by member states and by countries outside Europe, first of all the US”, professor Pollicino says. He will also attend the tenth World Congress of Constitutional Law, which will be held in Seoul from June 18 to 22 (general topic: “Violent Conflicts, Peace-Building and Constitutional Law”). He will co-chair with Giovanna De Minico a workshop on “Internet in the Age of Ordinary Terrorism”. The workshop will focus on the contradictory identity of the web, a place for the exercise of all kind of freedoms and a field for terrorism-related crimes. The national regulatory responses are also contradictory, both favorable and adverse to freedoms. The response of the European lawmakers and the creative role played by the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights will also be taken into account.
 
Professor Pollicino will also be national rapporteur at the World Congress of the International Federation of Law of the European Union, which will be held in Estoril, Portugal, May 23-26. The report “Internal Market and Digital Economy”, co-authored with professor Roberto Mastroianni and the lawyers Mario Siragusa and Fausto Caronna, focuses on the difficulties in the interpretation of the Italian laws on electronic commerce; on the implementation process of the audio visual media services directive; on net neutrality and the creation of the digital single market; on personal data protection in the new digital environment.
 
Again in May, he will teach a course in “Free Speech and Privacy in the Transition from the World of Atoms to the World of Bits" at the University of Haifa, Israel.
 
In 2018 Oreste Policing will also publish new papers. Two of them have recently been accepted. In Transfiguration and Actual Relevance of the Common Constitutional Traditions: Past, Present and Future, forthcoming in Global Jurist, the author ponders on the survival and the relevance of constitutional traditions in the age of the EU codification of fundamental rights. In Striking the Balance between Human Rights Online and State Security Concerns: The Russian Way in a Comparative Context, co-authored with Oleg Soldatov and forthcoming in German Law Journal, he analyzes the balance between the necessity to protect the freedom of information and to safeguard the personal information of individuals and the defense of national security in today’s Russia.

by Claudio Todesco