EUROPEAN UNION LAW
- Overview
- Assessment methods
- Learning objectives
- Contents
- Full programme
- Delivery method
- Teaching methods
- Contacts/Info
Students must have passed the exam of Elements of Law.
Final exam is an oral discussion consisting of 2 questions with final mark expressed in thirtieth. The oral discussion relates to the whole program.
Course attendance is not compulsory but strongly recommended to all students.
Attending students will be provided with the materials discussed in class and made available by the teacher and will be able to take two written exams, one in the middle and one at the end of the course. Attendance of 75% of the lectures is required (i.e. a total of 3 out of 12 lectures). To this end, attendance will be recorded at the end of each lecture.
The materials for non-attending students are indicated in the Leganto platform.
The following will be evaluated:
- accuracy and quality of answers;
- use of appropriate technical-legal language;
- capacity of connecting the different topics covered during the course;
- critical and personal analysis of the legal issues discussed in class.
The course aims to examine the principles, institutions and sources of EU law, EU citizenship and some of the EU policies.
At the end of the course, students should be able to know and understand:
- the values, objectives and system of competences of the EU;
- the composition and functioning of EU institutions;
- the sources of EU law;
- the relationship between EU law and national legal systems;
- EU citizenship;
- the free movement of persons, goods, services and capital and other policies of the EU.
Introduction
- notion of EU
- EU law
- history and development of the European integration
- peculiarities of the EU legal order
Values, objectives and democratic principles of the EU
EU membership
EU system of competences
- Principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality
- Types of competences
Institutional framework
- European Parliament
- European Council
- Council
- Commission
- High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- European Court of Auditors
- European Central Bank
- European Economic and Social Committee
- European Committee of the Regions
- European Investment Bank
- European Ombudsman
- Interinstitutional services and agencies (overview)
Legal sources of EU law
- Treaties
- general principles of law
- Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
- international law
- legal acts of the institutions, including regulations, directives and decisions
EU legislative procedures
Adaptation of the Italian legal system to EU law
EU Judicial Systems (overview)
- infringement procedure
- annulment procedure
- actions for failure to act
- actions for damages
- reference for a preliminary ruling
EU Citizenship
Free movement of persons, goods, services and capital (overview)
Other policies of the EU (overview)
See the "Course content" section.
The course takes place in the second semester and consists in 36 hours of lessons. All updates about the course are published on the e-learning platform.
Students will be received by appointment (rebekka.monico@uninsubria.it) at the end of the lecture or via the Microsoft Teams platform.