LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course is aimed at providing the students with an adequate knowledge and undestanding of the European Union legal order and of the integration progress from which it originated. 

At the end of the course, students will acquire the methodological tools and general competences related to the institutional framework of the European Union and the main policies of the Union, will be able to understand and analyse current legal issues of European Union law, and will be able to independently develop possible solutions to open questions.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The first part of the course is devoted to the institutions and to the sources of law of the European Union. In this part of the course, the students will acquire specific knowledge of:

(i) institutions and rules of functioning of the European Union;

(ii) sources of law and decisional procedure for their adoption;

(iii) instruments of judicial protection;

(iv) European citizenship and rights deriving from it;

(v) principles regulating the system of competences and their exercise.

In the second part of the course, the students will learn the most important areas of intervention of EU law and, more precisely:

(i) the rules governing the internal market;

(ii) the rules on the area of freedom, security and justice;

(iii) the rules on competition;

(iv) economic and monetary policy.

The above topics will be always considered in a dynamic perspective, which starting from the legal framework of reference, will take into account the practice and, in particular, the relevant case-law of the Court of Justice. 

TEACHING METHODS

The lectures of the course are held in presence (48 hours for 8 credits). 

In case of necessity, online lectures will be synchronous. 

The Teams channel cose for the online lectures is: o41i2mb

News and communications concerning the lectures will be provided through the Aulaweb page of the course. Students are invited to register as participants to the Aulaweb page of the course. 

The teaching materials (legal acts, decisions, references) will be uploaded on the Aulaweb page.  

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

First part: (i) institutions and rules governing the functioning of the European Union, (ii) sources of law and decisional procedure for their adoption; (iii) instruments for the judicial protection; (iv) European citizenships and rights deriving from it; (v) principles regulating the system of competences and their exercise.

Second part: (i) the rules of the internal market; (ii) the rules regulating the area of freedom, security and justice; (iii) the rules on competition; (iv) economic and monetary policy.  

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

The book for the course is ADAM R., TIZZANO A., Lineamenti di diritto dell'Unione europea, 2022, Fifth edition, Giappichelli

For the students following regularly the lectures the program includes:

- the book above mentioned, from p. 1 to 300 and from p. 327 to 403.

- the analysis of the following teaching materials:

A) most relevant decisions of the Court of Justice in the following fields: general principles of the EU legal order (for example principle of institutional balance, subsidiarity, proportionality), European citizenship, fundamental freedoms, economic and monetary policy, external relations.

B) most important acts of the European institutions (for example inter-institutional agreements, conclusions of the European Council, communications of the Commission) relevant for the studying of the topics of the course.

The above mentioned teaching materials, together with the Treaty on the EU, the Treaty on the functioning of the EU, the Charter of the fundamental rights of the EU, are available on the Aulaweb page of the course. 

For the students who do not regularly participate to the lectures, the program includes the book above mentioned (from p.1 to p. 465).

For the students who select the course of EU law for the purposes of the so-called "carriera ponte", the program includes the book above mentioned from p. 1 to 300 and from p. 327 to 368.