LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide students with general skills and the essential methodological instruments and tools for the analysis of the European Union Law. To this end, the institutional structure of the EU, the sources of law, the relationship between the European Union and the domestic legal system, the European system of judicial protection, as well as the fundamental freedoms and the main policies of the Union are examined in detail. Considering the themes that characterise the degree course, a particular attention is devoted to the exam of the principles underpinning the so-called European Economic Constitution, also in the perspective of enabling students to independently understand its future developments.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

• reconstruct the fundamental stages of the process of creating the European Union in its current evolutionary structure, identifying its essential characteristics that distinguish it from other international organizations;
• understand and illustrate the composition and functioning of the institutional and regulatory system as well as the judicial protection system on which the European Union legal system is based, including the effects likely to derive from it in national legal systems;
• know and report in their contents, inspiring principles and objectives the fundamental freedoms at the basis of the European integration process and the main material policies of the Union's competence;
• analyze specific legal issues and identifying the rules of European Union law relevant to their solution;
• apply the relevant rules, distinguishing the cases and creating links with the categories studied, for the solution of concrete and specific legal problems;
• carry out research on the sources of European Union law and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union;
• appreciate and critically evaluate independently the legal and political-social implications of the choices made at all levels of governance of the European Union;
• analyze topical issues relating to the European integration process, and independently appreciate the implications of any reform processes underway;
• express with appropriate technical language, both in oral and written form, on matters relating to European Union Law.

PREREQUISITES

A fruitful study of the topics covered in the teaching of European Union law requires knowledge of the basic notions of constitutional law and private law.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures are given exclusively in presence.
They are supplemented by the analysis of regulatory and case law material, and are carried out with the help of documentation made available on AulaWeb.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The teaching of European Union law aims, in its first part, to provide students with basic notions on the institutional aspects and sources of the European Union legal system, with specific reference to the following topics:

• the origins and evolution of the European integration process;
• the institutional structure of the European Union and the relationship between the European Union and the Member States;
• the system of competences and policies of the European Union;
• the European Union as a subject of international law and its external action;
• the regulatory system of the European Union: primary sources, secondary legislation, atypical sources;
• the relationships between European Union law and national law of the Member States.

In the second part, the teaching aims to provide students with an understanding of the mechanisms of judicial protection provided for by the Treaties of the Union, in order to guarantee the legality of the EU legal system and the protection of the subjective legal positions deriving from its rules, with particular regard to:

• the composition and functioning of the judicial bodies of the European Union;
• the means of appeal: the appeal for annulment, the appeal in deficiency and for infringement;
• the reference for a preliminary ruling of interpretation and validity.

Finally, the third and last part of the course aims to provide a general understanding of the main material rules governing the internal market (so-called "fundamental freedoms") and some other policies within the competence of the European Union, namely:

• the free movement of goods;
• the free movement of persons: free movement of workers, European citizenship, the area of ​​freedom, security and justice, freedom of establishment;
• the free circulation of services;
• competition rules applicable to companies and States.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

ATTENDING STUDENTS

ADAM – TIZZANO, Manuale di diritto dell’Unione europea, Torino, 3rd ed., 2020:

• Introduzione
• Parte prima
• Parte seconda (only chapters from I to V)
• Parte terza
• Parte quarta (only introduction and chapters I, II, IV, VII and VIII)
• Parte sesta

Regulatory sources can be found through the platform EUR-Lex (eur-lex.europa.eu).

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS

ADAM – TIZZANO, Manuale di diritto dell’Unione europea, Torino, 3rd ed., 2020:

• Introduzione
• Parte prima
• Parte seconda
• Parte terza
• Parte quarta
• Parte sesta

Regulatory sources can be found through the platform EUR-Lex (eur-lex.europa.eu).