Course requirements
Master degree in Law. This course is part of the Advanced Master Law and Finance.
More information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/education/study-programmes/master/law-and-finance
Course information
This course aims to provide students insight in the basic elements of EU legal order and its internal market.
First, students will acquire working knowledge of the EU’s autonomous legal order, the sources of EU law and the relationship between EU law and national law. This includes the mechanisms for the judicial enforcement of rights and obligations under EU law.
Second, students will acquire a working knowledge of the functioning of the internal market, specifically as regards the freedoms that are most relevant for financial regulation: free movement of services, establishment and capital.
Students will learn to find, interpret and apply the EU Treaties, EU legislation and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union to basic case studies.
The course will go into the relationship between EU law and national law, including basic doctrines such as supremacy and direct effect, as well as the different mechanisms for the judicial enforcement of rights and obligations under EU law.
Course learning objectives
Students will be able to identify the different institutions and their role in the EU legal order
Students can find , interpret and apply the different sources of EU law.
Students understand the relationship between EU law and national law, including basic doctrines such as supremacy and direct effect.
Students understand the different mechanism for the judicial enforcement of rights and obligations under EU law and know which legal remedy applies in a specific context.
Students know how to identify the four different freedoms in the internal market
and can apply the basic internal market tests to assess if national measures form a restriction and if so, whether this restriction may be justified.
Students understand the relevance of EU law in financial regulation, which will be discussed in more detail further in the Advanced Master Programme.
Mode of instruction
Lectures
Number of (2 hour) lectures: 10
Names of lecturers: Dr Armin Cuyvers, Dr. Jorrit Rijpma
Required preparation by students: reading of prescribed materials
The second hour of each lecture will include an interactive, seminar style element focused on application of acquired knowledge
Course Load
Lectures
1) Intro & actors
2) Nature & Sources of EU law
3) Direct effect of Directives
4) Competences and Legislative Procedures
5) Delegation and Implementation
6) Judicial review
7) Internal Market & Goods
8) Persons & Citizenship
9) Services & Establishment
10) Capital
Examination method
Oral presentation: 30%
Take-home exam in the form of one case study and one essay question: 70%
Areas to be tested within the exam:
The examination syllabus consist of the required reading (literature) for the course, the course information guide and the subjects taught in the lectures, the seminars and all othere instructions wich are part of the course.
The final grade, on the scale from 1(poor) to 10 (excellent), for the course is established by determining the weighted average and rounded to full grades. Grade 6 (5.5 rounded) is a pass.
Blackboard
Course reader and additional literature is distributed through Blackboard.
Submission of papers via Blackboard using safe assignment.
Course materials
Students are requested to study the booklet: A. Arnull, European Union Law: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), in advance of the course.
Foster, EU Law Directions (Oxford University Press, 5th Edition, 2016)
Treaty texts and secondary legislation: N. Foster, Blackstone’s EU Treaties & Legislation (Oxford University Press), latest edition.
Reader with recent literature and case law. The reader will be made available on Blackboard.
Contact
Course Coordinator:
Dr. J.J. Rijpma (European Law Department)
Email: j.j.rijpma@law.leidenuniv.nl
Programme Coordinator:
Ms. Orsolya Kalsbeek-Bagdi
Email address: lawandfinance@law.leidenuniv.nl
Remarks
Students are requested to study the booklet: A. Arnull, European Union Law: a very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017), in advance of the course.