Università Roma Tre

The course "Protection of personal data and protection of fundamental rights - Privacy Law Clinic" (ECTS), from a Public Law perspective, allows the students to engage in practical activities, based on the theoretical lessons of the first part of the course, according to the "learning by doing" method.
The idea for the course comes from the awareness that the fundamental rights are now an established heritage of our legal tradition, both at national and european level: we now appreciate a multi-level protection of fundamental rights, made possible by the constitutional clauses that allow the opening to international and European Law.
In this context, the right to privacy, codified by the Privacy Code (Legislative Decree. N. 196/2003), is a fundamental human right, as a direct explication of dignity, also due to the contribution of Eu Law and ECHR.
Therefore, the right to privacy, both in the tradional sense and as protection of personal data, has now achieved a solid legal acknowledge: first of all, we should consider articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter of rights and case law of both the Court of Justice and the Court of Strasbourg. Secondly, we need to mention EC (noe EU) Law, beginning with the Directive 95/46/ EC, folowed, at the national level, by law n. 675/1996 and then by the so-called Privacy Code (Legislative Decree no. 196/2003). Finally, the need for a more coherent framework at European level has led to the adoption of the new Regulation on data protection (EU Regulation 2016/679), which, by repealing Directive 95/46, produces a fundamental work of standardization of the national laws on the subject.
Once descrived the theoretical framework, there are two theoretical and practical focus on the legal framework (Legislative Decree. N. 196/2003 and EU Regulation 2016/679) and the activities of Data Protection Authority.
Such focus are the necessary link between the theoretical and the practical part, represented by a legal service to the administrative staff of the University. This activity will be conducted under the supervision of a teacher (and student graduating seniors / graduates), by students who have demonstrated the necessary theoretical knowledge.