EU Law

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: have an overview of the history of the European Union understand the difference between EU institutions and other international organisations such as the Council of Europe assess the evolution of the various Treaties that founded and changed the structure of the European Union throughout the years have an overview of the Brexit process and the current frameworks regulating the relationship between the EU and the UK.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: state which institutions are listed under Article 13 TEU and explain what their inclusion in this Treaty Article means about their powers understand the powers and functions of EU institutions understand the powers and functions of other EU bodies describe how law making occurs at the EU level understand the differences and the roles of EU acts.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: state the main judicial institutions of the EU understand the functions, powers, and procedures of the Court of Justice of the European Union understand the mechanisms of the preliminary reference procedure understand the mechanisms of judicial review as per Article 263 TFEU use the various EU Court procedures in order to find a remedy to EU law problems.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: explain the impact of Union law on the national legal systems of Member States explain how the basic principles governing the relationship between Union and national law (direct effect, indirect effect, supremacy and state liability for breach of Union law) have developed and critically evaluate the legal basis of those principles evaluate the role of the Court of Justice in developing those principles through the concep

By the end of this topic and the relevant reading, you should be able to: explain the main European Union rules that govern the free movement of goods as laid down in Treaty, secondary legislation and case law identify the barriers to free movement of goods, be it monetary or quantitative or measures having an equivalent effect identify the different types of measures having an equivalent effect to quantitative restrictions: product requirements; selling arrangements; rules on use understand th

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: understand the scope of free movement of services and establishment have an overview of harmonisation in this area understand the mechanisms at play when justifying a restriction to free movement of services.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: understand the scope of Article 63 TFEU – free movement of capital assess the evolution of the Economic and Monetary Union understand the derogations to free movement of capital.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: understand the various forms of harmonisation of national legislation for the purpose of internal market integration identify the scope of Article 114 understand the ways in which derogations from EU harmonisation rules can be justified.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: understand the ways in which antitrust rules affect the activity of businesses on the European market have an overview of European regulation in the field of antitrust understand the way in which antitrust rules are enforced.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: understand the operation of free movement of workers provisions understand the derogations from free movement of workers assess the evolution of the case law of the court in the area of free movement of persons from an expansive approach to a more stringent application understand the concept of European citizenship apply the provisions of the citizenship directive to cases regarding free movement of persons.

By the end of this topic and the relevant readings, you should be able to: understand the history of fundamental rights protection in the EU identify the sources of fundamental rights protection in the EU evaluate the impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights evaluate the relationship between the EU system of fundamental rights protection and the system put in place by the ECHR.