Regional Economic Integration: the EU and beyond (18GBD70159)

General information

Type:	OB	Curs:	2	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	4 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

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- Face to Face learning: 80%
- Individual study and work group: 20%

- Analytical thinking of legal and political issues

- A systemic approach to understand the EU legal orderin political, economic and social context

- Understand the basic concepts of European Union Law and differentiate the EU legal order from international and national legal orders.

- Have a clear sense of the evolution of EU institutions, decision-making and EU constitutional principles

- Understand the goals and content of the main EU policies

1. STANDARD: EU FOUNDATIONS (From TOPIC 2 to TOPIC 8)

2. INTRO AND HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION THE CREATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE CREATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. THE EU ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CRISIS. CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE

3. MEMBERS OF THE EU ORIGINAL MEMBERS ¿ ADHESIONS TO THE EU- COPENHAGUEN CRITERIA ¿ FUTURE ENLARGEMENTS

4. OBJECTIVES AND POWERS OF THE EU OBJECTIVES OF THE EU POWERS ¿ EXCLUSIVE POWERS ¿ SHARED POWERS AND SUBSIDIARITY ¿ COMPLEMENTARY POLICIES -

5. THE EU INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM THE EU COUNCIL ¿ THE COUNCIL- THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ¿ THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ¿THE COURT OF JUSTICE ¿ THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK ¿ THE COURT OF AUDITORS

6. FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION. CITIZENSHIP THE EU CHARTER ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ¿ LEGAL VALUE ¿ ADHESION TO THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ¿ THE COURT OF JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

7. THE EU LEGAL ORDER SOURCES OF EU LAW ¿ PRIMARY LAW- GENERAL PRINCIPLES -INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS- SECONDARY LAW

8. THE EU SYSTEM OF LEGAL REMEDIES JUDICIAL APPLICATION OF EU LAW IN THE MEMBER STATES. THE NATIONAL JUDGE AS AN EUROPEAN JUDGE PRIMACY ¿ DIRECT EFFECT ¿ LIABILITY OF THE MEMBER STATE BEFORE THE NATIONAL JUDGE IN CASE OF INFRINGEMENT

9. EXTENDED: EU DEBATES AND CASE LAW (From TOPIC 10 to TOPIC 13)

10. MEMBERS OF THE EU: SECESSION AND BREXIT

11. EU INSTITUTIONS: INSTITUTIONAL BALANCE

12. PRIMACY AND DIRECT EFFECT (COSTA ENEL; SIMMENTHAL; VAN GEND & LOOS; VAN DUYN; FRANCOVICH)

13. FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS (STAUDER, INTERNATIONALE HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT)

Lectures, case studies, problem-solving

-D. Chalmers, G. Davies, M. Monti, "European Union Law, Cases and Materials?, 3rd Edition, Cambridge U. P., 2014
-P. Craig and G. de Búrca, "EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials?, Oxford U.P., 2011
-S. Weatherhill, "Cases and Materials on EU Law?; Oxford U.P., 2012
-N. Foster, "Foster on EU Law?, Oxford U.P., 2011