ORESTE POLLICINO

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

I am full Professor of Constitutional Law in Bocconi. I also teach the courses on GDPR, Media Law, Internet Law and I am the Director of the LLM in Law of Internet Technologies in Bocconi University. I am Honest Broker appointed by the European Commission for the negotiation on the ‘European code of practice on disinformation’; I am also Member of the Executive Board, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna; Board Member of the Digital Library, Ministry of Culture; Member of the European Commission Sounding Board of the Multistakeholder in the fight against online disinformation; Participant to the Conseil of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI); Italian member of the OECD Global Partneship on Artificial Intelligence.


About

A new monograph has been recently published: Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights in Internet. A Road Towards Digital Constitutionalism?, Hart Publishing, 2021; I also edited with G.E. Vigevani, M. Bassini, M. Cuniberti, C. Melzi d’Eril), Diritto dell'informazione e dei media, III edition, 2022; and with R. Adorno, M. Ienca, L. Liguori, E. Stefanini), The Cambridge Handbook of Life Sciences, Information Technology and Human Rights, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022.


Research interests

My research is focused on Constitutional Law and cross-cut the issues of the digital age, looking at the delicate relationship between public and private actors and how this impacts with the exercise and the protection of fundamental rights. My research has centred on

1) European and Comparative Constitutional Law;

2) Digital Constitutional Law;

3) Media Law;

4) Internet Law,

5) Life Science Law;

6) Law and Cinema


Selected Publications

Pollicino, Oreste
Judicial protection of fundamental rights on the internet : a road towards digital constitutionalism?
2021

Pollicino, Oreste; De Gregorio, Giovanni
Constitutional law in the algorithmic society
Constitutional challenges in the algorithmic society, 2022

Pollicino, Oreste; De Gregorio, Giovanni
Blockchain and public law : global challenges in the era of decentralisation
2021

Pollicino, Oreste; Riccio, Giovanni Maria; Bassini, Marco
Copyright and fundamental rights in the digital age : a comparative analysis in search of a common constitutional ground
2020

Nicola, Fernanda G.; Pollicino, Oreste
The Balkanization of data privacy regulation
WEST VIRGINIA LAW REVIEW, 2020

Pollicino, Oreste
The “War” Against Covid-19: State of Exception, State of Siege, or (Constitutional) Emergency Powers
GERMAN LAW JOURNAL, 2021

Morelli, Alessandro; Pollicino, Oreste
Metaphors, judicial frames, and fundamental rights in cyberspace
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW, 2020

Pitruzzella, Giovanni; Pollicino, Oreste
Disinformation and hate speech : a European constitutional perspective
2020

Pitruzzella, Giovanni; Pollicino, Oreste; Bassini, Marco
Corti europee e democrazia : rule of law, indipendenza e accountability
2019