AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Analysis of the competences, institutions and sources of the EU Law. The family in the perspective of European freedom of movement and fundamental rights.

TEACHING METHODS

Didactic materials will be used during classes. These materials will be accessible on AulaWeb.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Part 1: Institutions and legal framework

Institutional structure of the Union:

    - origins and evolution of the Union: from the Paris treaty to the Lisbon Treaty

    - relationships between the Union and Member States (in particular: allocation of competences, subsidiarity and propotionality principle)

    - Institutions of the Union and their relationships

    - the Union as international actor and its external competences

The normative framework:

    - primary law (in particualr, treaties and their evolution, general principles of law)

    - secondary law (binding and non-binding acts)

    - atypical acts

    - relationships with domestic legal systems (direct effect and primacy

Part 2:  European Union law and family matters

Techniques and legal basis for the EU's intervention in family matters

    - allocation of competences between the EU and Member States

    - free movement of people and family relationships

    - protection of fundamental rights in family contexts

    - the action in the field of private international law

Free movement of EU and non-EU nationals and the right to family reunification

    - right to free movement and right to residence

    - movement of non-EU nationals

    - family reunification of EU and non-EU nationls

Fundamental rights under the focal lense of the protection of families between EU law and the European convention on fundamental rights and freedom.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Part 1:

I. Queirolo, L. Schiano di Pepe, Lezioni di diritto dell’Unione europea e relazioni familiari, Giappichelli, Torino, chapters I-III.

Part 2:

I. Queirolo, L. Schiano di Pepe, Lezioni di diritto dell’Unione europea e relazioni familiari, Giappichelli, Torino, chapters IV-VI.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

FRANCESCO PESCE (President)

LAURA CARPANETO

CHIARA CELLERINO

MARIA ELENA DE MAESTRI

STEFANO DOMINELLI

FRANCESCA MAOLI

ILARIA QUEIROLO

PIETRO SANNA

MATTEO SOMMELLA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

I semester from September 16th to December 6th 2019 (12 weeks)
II semester from February 17th to May 9th 2020 (12 weeks)

Class schedule

LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION A

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral examination. Only students taking part to 2/3 of classes will be given the possibility to take two written tests, one at the end of each part of the course.

Exam schedule