Ability to analyze legal aspects of European integration and its influence on Italian legal order, with reference to general and institutional profiles.

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.

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.

U. Villani, Istituzioni di Diritto dell’UE, VII ed., Bari, 2024.

Traditional lecture, cases studies.

Final assessment Students will take a final written exam pass/fail and, in case of a positive outcome, an oral exam.

Final grade: at least 28.