Admission requirements
Admission to the MA International Relations, track European Union Studies.
Description
This course will explore the legal dimension of European integration. The EU is unique in its institutional set-up, its supranational legal order and its interplay with the legal order of its Member States. Accordingly, the course will outline on the main chapters of EU constitutional and substantive law. Special attention will be paid to the four freedoms and to fundamental rights in the EU.
Course objectives
Having successfully completed the course, students will be familiar with the main legal questions that arise in the context of the EU. They will have good understanding of the particularities of the EU legal order and decision making as well as the main areas of substantive law. In terms of skills, the students will be able to find sources (judgments, secondary legislation) and to identify the important elements of these sources.
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Lecture
Course Load
Total course load for the course: 5 EC x 28 hours = 140 hours
Hours spent on attending lectures and seminars: 2 hours per week x 14 weeks = 28 hours
Time for studying the compulsory literature: 112 hours
Assessment method
Participation (20%);
Take home examination (80%). The take home examination consists of a problem question (70% of the exam mark) and a research question (30% of the exam mark).
Weighing
The final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average.
Resit
In order to be eligible for the resit, students have to have failed the course.
Exam Review
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Blackboard
Blackboard will be used for this course.
Reading list
Schütze, EU Treaties and Legislation (Cambridge University Press);
Chalmers, Davies and Monti, European Union Law (Cambridge University Press).
Registration
Via uSis.