EUROPEAN UNION LAW
Instructional goals
Ability to analyze legal aspects of European integration and its influence on Italian legal order, with reference to general and institutional profiles.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the legal roots of European integration, its evolution, methodology, functioning, and of some of its most important and controversial policies.
Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to frame the current problems of European integration within the institutional legal context of EU.
Making judgements: acquisition and application of the legal tools for the understanding of EU institutional dynamics.
Communications Skills: ability to elaborate, in oral and written form, legally correct information, solidly based on normative data, concerning the functioning of the EU and some of its policies.
Learning skills: maturation of a capacity of reading the process of European integration in the perspective of its possible future developments.
Course Contents
Origins, evolution and main characteristics of European integration. Structures, goals and principles of the European Union. Delimitation of competences between European Union and Member States. European citizenship. EU institutions. Inter-institutional procedures. Sources of EU law. Judiciary competences. Relationship between EU law and Italian legal order. Basic notions of EU material law.
Reference Books
U. Villani, Istituzioni di Diritto dell’UE, VI ed., Bari, 2020. Additional readings will be suggested during classes.
Specific extended syllabus: in addition to the main textbook, E. Triggiani, Spunti e riflessioni sull’Europa, II ed., Bari, 2019.
Teaching Methods
Traditional lecture, cases studies.
Assessment Method
Six tests will take place during the course. Details of each test will be announced at the beginning of the course.
Final assessment
For attending students who take all the six tests: in-class tests results (85%); individual oral examination on any part of the entire course (15%).
For attending students who take five tests during the lectures: in-class tests results (70%); individual oral examination on any part of the entire syllabus and specific discussion of the topics of the test(s) not taken (30%). Percentages are 60% and 40% for those who take four in-class tests.
Those who take less than four tests are deemed as non-attending students. They will take an oral exam on a specific extended syllabus (listed under ‘Reference Books’).
It is possible to refuse the final grade only once and in aggregate (i.e., it is not permitted to accept the grade given for only some individual tests).
Thesis assignment criteria
Final grade: at least 28.
Week 1 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: the communitarian approach.
ON LINE: analysis of the Van Gend en Loos case.
ON CAMPUS: evolution of the Treaties.
Week 2 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: human rights in the European Union.
ON LINE: analysis of the ERT case.
ON CAMPUS: EU values.
Week 3 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: delimitation of competences between European Union and Member States.
ON LINE: EU smart sanctions against international terrorism.
ON CAMPUS: individual assessment.
Week 4 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: EU institutions: the EP.
ON LINE: individual assessment (Brexit and the EP).
ON CAMPUS: EU institutions: the Commission.
Week 5 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: EU institutions: the European Council and the Council.
ON LINE: a simulation of the voting system of the Council.
ON CAMPUS: EU institutions: the CJEU and the other institutions.
Week 6 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: decision-making procedures.
ON LINE: the trilogues, core of the legislative procedures.
ON CAMPUS: individual assessment.
Week 7 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: sources of EU Law (I).
ON LINE: ECJ case-law on the position of international law within the EU legal order.
ON CAMPUS: direct effect.
Week 8 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: group assessment.
ON LINE: Q&A.
ON CAMPUS: group assessment.
Week 9 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: the infringement procedure.
ON LINE: individual assessment.
ON CAMPUS: annulment procedure.
Week 10 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: the preliminary ruling procedure.
ON LINE: data analysis.
ON CAMPUS: the other competences of the Court.
Week 11 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: group assessment.
ON LINE: Q&A.
ON CAMPUS: group assessment.
Week 12 Contenuto sessioni on line e on campus
ON CAMPUS: relationship between EU law and Italian legal order.
ON LINE: the Taricco case.
ON CAMPUS: implementation of EU law in Italy.