ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |68 pages
The theoretical framework and the jurisdiction conundrum in a comparative perspective
chapter |23 pages
Judicial reasoning and new technologies
chapter |22 pages
The boundaries of jurisdiction in cybercrime and constitutional protection
part |47 pages
European standards for protection of fundamental rights in the internet
chapter |23 pages
Freedom of expression in the internet
part |133 pages
Models of constitutional adjudication on internet issues: a comparative perspective