INTERNET AND E-COMMERCE LAW

Academic year
2025/2026 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
DIRITTO DELL'INTERNET E COMMERCIO ELETTRONICO
Course code
ET0087 (AF:450105 AR:256058)
Teaching language
Italian
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Academic Discipline
IUS/01
Period
1st Term
Course year
3
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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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.
he verification of learning takes place through an exclusively oral final exam designed to ascertain the student's knowledge and understanding of the topics covered in the program, the ability to expound them in an appropriate manner, if necessary also through the student's presentation of case studies and/or specific issues of interest on which he or she has felt to make a personal in-depth study.
oral
Regarding grade graduation (mode by which grades will be assigned), regardless of the attending or non-attending mode: A. scores in the 18-22 range will be awarded in the presence of: - sufficient knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the syllabus; - limited ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments; - sufficient communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the discipline of banking; B. scores in the range 23-26 will be awarded in the presence of: - fair knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the syllabus; - fair ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments; - fair communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the discipline of banking activity; C. scores in the 27-30 range will be awarded in the presence of: - good or excellent knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the program; - good or excellent ability to collect and/or interpret data, making independent judgments; - fully appropriate communication skills, especially in relation to the use of specific language pertaining to the discipline of banking activity; D. honors will be awarded in the presence of knowledge and applied comprehension skills with reference to the program, judgment skills and communication skills, excellent.
Lectures
Case discussions - workshops
Seminars and testimonials
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.
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 29/03/2025