Prof. Avv. Oreste Pollicino has been conferred the Legal Studies Award by Università Commerciale L. Bocconi for his monograph “Judicial Protection of Fundamental Rights on the Internet. A Road Towards Digital Constitutionalism?”, published by Hart Publishing. The purpose of the award is to give visibility and recognition to individual research products having characteristics of absolute and recognized excellence.

8 July 2022, 3:30 PM

Prof. Avv. Oreste Pollicino will speak at the event dedicated to the presentation of the “Code against disinformation” organized by the Associazione Stampa Romana. The Professor, who coordinated the writing of the code and the negotiations with the signatories, will debate with Arturo Di Cortinto, columnist for Repubblica and Il Manifesto, lecturer at the Sapienza University of Rome, Prof. Michela Manetti, lecturer at the University of Rome 3, Giuseppe Mennella, secretary of Ossigeno per l’informazione, Maurizio Molinari, editor of Repubblica, Lazzaro Pappagallo, secretary of Stampa Romana, and Arcangelo Iannace, head of external relations at Fieg. The event will be streamed live on Stampa Romana’s Facebook and YouTube channels.

We are pleased to announce the publication of the book “The Cambridge Handbook of Life Sciences, Information Technology and Human Rights”, published by Cambridge University Press.
The volume was edited by Prof. Avv. Oreste Pollicino together with Dr. Marcello Ienca, College of Humanities, EPFL Lausanne, Avv. Laura Liguori, Portolano Cavallo, Avv. Elisa Stefanini, Portolano Cavallo, and Prof. Roberto Adorno, University of Zurich.

22 June 2022, 3:00 – 5:30 PM

Prof. Avv. Oreste Pollicino will take part in the Seminar “Piattaforme digitali e libertà di manifestazione del pensiero” organized as part of the study and research activities of the Digital Ecosystem Laboratory (Astrid-LED). The speeches will be introduced by Prof. Avv. Ugo Ruffolo, University of Bologna, and Prof. Antonio Nicita, Member of the Regulatory Scrutiny Board of the European Commission, former AGCOM Commissioner.

Today took place the presentation of the ‘Code of Practice on Disinformation’, the elaboration of which was coordinated by Prof. Avv. Oreste Pollicino, co-founder and Partner of the law firm, as honest broker. Professor Pollicino delivered the Code to the European Commission Vice President, Věra Jourová, and to the Single Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton, on behalf of the 34 signatories. The Code represents the first co-regulatory tool on disinformation and brings together various industry players who have voluntarily signed up for the proposed measures to counter disinformation.

17-18 June 2022

Professor Oreste Pollicino will take part at the Online Symposium on “Digital Constitution: On the Transformative Potential of Societal Constitutionalism” organized by Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law with Normative Orders. The Professor will be discussant in the presentations by Prof. Tania Sourdin, University of New Castle, Australia, and by Prof. Adj. Edoardo Celeste, Dublin City University.

We are pleased to announce the recent publication of the volume “Constitutional Challenges in the Algorithmic Society”, published by Cambridge University Press, and edited by Prof. Oreste Pollicino together with Prof. Hans-W. Micklitz, Prof. Amnon Reichman, Prof. Andrea Simoncini, Prof. Giovanni Sartor, and Dr. Giovanni De Gregorio.

13-14 June 2022

Prof. Avv. Oreste Pollicino will take part in the Annual Conference organized by the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO).
The Professor will join the panel on the second day of the event that will be moderated by Dr. Paola Gori LL.M., Coordinator for Communication and Media at the European University Institute, and Secretary General at EDMO.
The panel will examine the new Code of Practice on Disinformation, to the writing of which the Professor contributed.

10 June 2022, 3:00 PM

Prof. Avv. Oreste Pollicino will take part in the Conference “Il public enforcement del copyright nell’era digitale” organized by Luiss School of Law as part of the Master in Competition and Innovation Law and in collaboration with ADEC Association of Law and Economics of Communications and Digital Media.
The panel will be chaired by Prof. Avv. Gustavo Olivieri, Director of the Master in Competition and Innovation Law, Luiss School of Law and ADEC President, and, in addition to the Professor, Massimiliano Capitanio, Agcom Commissioner, Avv. Francesco Posteraro, former Agcom Commissioner, and Augusto Preta, President of the Italian Chapter of the International Institute of Communications and ADEC, will speak.