B009865 - DIRITTO DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA

Libro di testo: Allan Rosas and Lorna Armati, EU Constitutional Law – An Introduction, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2010
An English text of the European Union Treaties (as amended by the Treaty of Lisbon). Recommended edition: Consolidated Treaties – Charter of Fundamental Rights, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010 (10 euro).
Versione aggiornata in italiano dei Trattati dell’Unione Europea in una delle edizioni a scelta (per esempio la versione italiana dell’edizione menzionata qui sopra: Trattati consolidati – Carta dei diritti fondamentali, Lussemburgo: Ufficio delle Pubblicazioni dell’Unione europea, 2010).

Altri materiali più specifici, ma sempre disponibili in biblioteca o su internet, verranno indicati ulteriormente

Conoscenza di base del diritto dell’Unione europea (consigliata) – conoscenza passiva della lingua inglese (vincolante).

Lezioni di didattica frontale: 60

COURSE SCHEDULE All classes are from 16.00 to 18.00 1. (7 March) Introductory session: institutions, sources of law, general evolution 2. (8 March) Treaty architecture and Treaty revision mechanisms 3. (10 March) Division of competences between the EU and the member states 4. (14 March) Four trajectories of EU competences: environment, social policy, education, immigration 5. (15 March) The use of controversial legal bases: Article 114 TFEU and Article 352 TFEU (17 March: no class for anniversary of Italian unity) 6. (21 March) Methods of law-making and implementation 7. (22 March) Law-making: case studies 8. (24 March) External relations: competences and decision-making 9. (4 April) Judicial enforcement of EU Law in and against the member states 10. (5 April) Judicial enforcement of EU law: selected cases 11. (7 April) The system of judicial review of Union acts 12. (11 April) Protection of fundamental rights 13. (12 April) Fundamental rights: case studies 14. (14 April) Union citizenship 15. (18 April) Relation between EU law and national law: recent developments 16. (19 April) Relation between EU law and national law: case studies 17. (21 April) EU law and international law 18. (9 May) Principal areas of external relations 19. (10 May) Internal market law and non-market values 20. (12 May) EU labour and social law 21. (16 May) Union citizenship: case studies 22. (17 May) EU immigration policy 23. (19 May) Immigration law: case studies 24. (23 May) Protection of minorities and issues of cultural diversity 25. (24 May) Criminal justice 26. (26 May) Cultural diversity and criminal justice case studies 27. (30 May) The use of political science literature in the study of EU law 28. (31 May) Current debates in EU law and policy (March-May 2011) 29. (2 June) Concluding session – Question time

Esame scritto in italiano (o in inglese, a scelta)

This course is devoted to the study of European Union law, with a special emphasis on the changes caused by the entry into force, on 1 December 2009, of the Lisbon Treaty. Its purpose is to deepen the existing knowledge of European law, examined in its political context, and to make the students familiar with the English terminology of EU law.
This is an advanced, master-level course of European Union law and it presupposes basic knowledge of the European Union and its legal system. If some participants have not taken a course of Introduction to European law before, they can use, in addition to the materials for this course, the textbook used for the laurea triennale course of European law in this faculty, namely Ugo Villani, Istituzioni di Diritto dell’Unione europea (2010 edition). All participants should have a recent collection of the Treaties and bring it to the class meetings. The format of the course will combine lectures in English with group discussions (in English and Italian) in which primary materials (judgments, legislation or other EU materials) will be examined in greater detail on the basis of presentations by students.
The following subjects will be examined in this course: evolution of Treaty architecture, Treaty revision procedures, the division of competences between the EU and its member states, the law-making process, the application and enforcement of EU law, the judicial review of EU acts, the protection of fundamental rights, non-discrimination and Union citizenship, immigration policy, the principles of internal market law, the protection of minorities and of cultural diversity, and the use of political science in the study of EU law. Much attention will also be given to the law of the external relations of the Union.