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EUROPEAN UNION LAW

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Academic year
2021/2022
Teacher
JACOPO FRANCESCO ALBERTI
Credits
6
Didactic period
Secondo Semestre
SSD
IUS/14

Training objectives

The course aims to provide to the students the knowledge of the European Union Law accomplished mainly throughout the study of the EU’s legal framework, of its founding Treaties, and of the case-law of the EU Court of Justice. Great attention will be also directed to the specific mechanism of implementation of EU law within the national legal order. In order to develop a critical approach, students must make extensive use of EU legislation and case law. During the course, exercises will be carried out to improve the critical analysis of specific EU subject areas where the incidence of EU law is particularly rich (competence, lawmaking and judicial argumentation).

Expected knowledge to be acquired:
- EU legal framework
- EU decision making process
- EU system of judicial protection
- EU law incidence on domestic law

Expected abilities to be acquired:
- orientation throughout the EU treaties and its competence system
- search and find the main EU legal sources and its case-law
- understand the effects of EU law on national law

Prerequisites

The students must possess a good knowledge of the Italian constitutional law. More in particular, the students must be familiar with the mechanisms of implemetation of the Italian law to the supranational law, the fundamental principles of the Italian legal system and the main sources of the Italian law. Preparatory course: Constitutional Law.

Course programme

The course forecasts 40 hours of teaching and convers the following topics:
The origins and the development of the EU’s integration process.
The existing laws and regulations in the EU: more specifically the structure of the EU treaties.
The multivel system of judicial protection
The legal system of the European Union:
1. EU competences and powers.
2. EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies
3. EU legal sources.
4. Decision making process in the EU.

Italian participation to the European integration process: implementation mechanisms and procedures.

Didactic methods

As part of the lessons we will be discussing the different contents of the course (see above), especially in light of the most recent EU case-law, with a great focus on the most problematic aspects of the EU current matters. To each specific content of the course will therefore match the discussion of specific EU cases that the students will be called to resolve in specific oral discussions.
Google Classroom code is hqpo6qy.
Even though classes will be hold in person, at the following link they can be followed in streaming: https://meet.google.com/oup-mjqc-orp.

Learning assessment procedures

The exam consists of a oral test. The aim of the exam is to verify at which level the learning objectives have been acquired.

Reference texts

Ugo Villani, Istituzioni di diritto dell'Unione europea, Cacucci Editore, 6° edizione, 2020.
During the course and while studying the student must also compulsorily consult the EU Treaties in their most recent and updated versions.
They can be found online at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/collection/eu-law/treaties/treaties-force.html?locale=it. The suggested printed version is Bruno Nascimbene (ed.), Unione europea - Trattati, Giappichelli, 2020.