First Session
June 15th to 19th, 2015. (1.5 crs.)
Internet and Freedom of Expression
Prof. Eduardo Bertoni
University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Technologies such as the Internet are essential to freedom of expression. However, the Internet not only provides an opportunity for expression, but raises also serious risks for the exercise of the right to free expression. In the words of the Special Rapporteur, "While the Internet offers new and expanded opportunities to disseminate and access information and ideas of all kinds, it would be naive and dangerous to ignore its simultaneous use as a tool to monitor, identify, locate and identify individuals who disseminate critical or sensitive information over the Internet. Moreover, the vast amount of information available online, including on social networks, also raises serious concerns about the right to privacy, such as who has access to specific personal information, how that information is used and if this information should be stored and for how long". (our translation).
Today, the rapid increase of technology users, specifically the Internet, means that governments are facing increasing challenges and novel regulatory legislation on issues of freedom of expression and democracy. These challenges range from how to provide Internet access up to what kind of controls and/or filters of content are acceptable in a democratic society, for the government or private companies such as Internet service providers (ISP's).
Second session
June 20th to June 24th, 2016. (1.5 crs.)
Criminal Justice Reform in South America
Prof. Mauricio Duce
University of Diego Portales at Santiago, Chile
The course is designed to provide a general framework for the understanding of moderncriminal procedure in comparative perspective. The course will focus on the study of thehistorical roots, setting and main procedural structures and institutions of the criminalprocedure in civil law countries, making a distinction between the developmentsexperienced in Europe and Latin America.
The participating students must take and pass both sessions in order to obtain the course credits. The course will be graded Pass/Fail.