The Internet and Constitutional Law: The Protection of Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Adjudication in Europe

This book analyses emerging constitutional principles addressing the regulation of the internet at both the national and the supranational level. These principles have arisen from cases involving the protection of fundamental rights. This is the reason why the book explores the topic thorough the lens of constitutional adjudication, developing an analysis of Courts’ argumentation.

The volume examines the gradual consolidation of a "constitutional core" of internet law at the supranational level. It addresses the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union case law, before going on to explore Constitutional or Supreme Courts’ decisions in individual jurisdictions in Europe and the US. The contributions to the volume discuss the possibility of the "constitutionalization" of internet law, calling into question the thesis of the so-called anarchic nature of the internet.

Oreste Pollicino is an Associate Professor of Comparative Law at Bocconi University Milan, Italy. His research interests include European and Comparative Constitutional Law; Media Law; Internet Law; Fundamental Rights. He published a number of books and essays in the field of European and Comparative Constitutional Law, including The Interaction between Europe's Legal Systems: Judicial Dialogue and the Creation of Supranational Laws, 2012, Edward Elgar Publishing; Modeling the Liability of Internet Service Providers: Google versus Vividown: A Constitutional Perspective, Egea, 2013.

Graziella Romeo is an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Bocconi University Milan, Italy. Her research interests include Fundamental Rights, Constitutional Adjudication, Methods of argumentation of Constitutional Courts. She published a number of essays in the field of constitutional law, including Measuring Cosmopolitanism in Europe. Standards of Judicial Scrutiny Over Non-Citizens' Rights, in Cambridge J. Int’l Comp. L., 2014, vol. 3; Looking back in anger and forward in trust: the complicate patchwork of the damages regime for infringements of rights in Italy, in Baginska (ed.), Berlin, 2015.