Learning objectives
The primary objective of the course is to make students familiar with the basic legal information and concepts pertaining to the process of European integration and European Union law. More generally, the course will offer instruments and notions that are essential in order to understand the ever growing and complex incidence of EU law on national law and the everyday life of individuals within the European Union.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
The course consists of four lessons addressing the fundamentals of EU institutional law. The first lesson will recall the main steps of the process of European integration, from the foundation of the European Communities to the Lisbon Treaty. Particular attention will be devoted to the introduction of the European citizenship and to the rights connected to this status. In the second lesson, attention will be paid to the main features and tasks of the European institutions and to the different effects of the sources of European Union law, with a focus on EU directives and regulations. In the third lesson, the EU system of judicial protection will be explored, and the allocation of tasks between EU and national courts will be clarified. Finally, in the fourth lesson the mechanisms put in place by the lg. 234/2012 to ensure that EU law is adequately put into effect in the Italian legal order will be examined.
Full programme
- the sources of EU law;
- main stages of the European integration process;
- Treaties of Rome;
- Treaty of Lisbon;
- establishment of the citizenship of the European Union and related rights;
- the institutions of the European Union (in particular, the European Council, the Council of the European Union, the Commission, the European Parliament and the Court of Justice of the European Union), with regard to their structure and competences;
- sources of EU law and effects
- EU transposition into Italian law;
- essential features of the European Union judicial protection system
- jurisdiction of the EU judge and jurisdiction of the national court;
- adaptation of the Italian law to the obligations deriving from EU law, with particular reference to the mechanisms of European law and the European delegation law provided for by Law no. 234/2012.
Bibliography
STROZZI-MASTROIANNI, Diritto dell’Unione europea – Parte Istituzionale (Giappichelli, Torino, 6th ed., 2013), the following parts only:
Ch. I, paragraphs 1, 9, 9.4 and 9.5);
Ch. II, paragraphs from 1 to 4.6, from 5 to 6.2, from 8 to 8.3, 8.7, from 10 to 10.4);
Ch. III, paragraphs from 1 to 3;
Ch. IV, only paragraphs 10, 11 and 12;
Ch. V, only paragraphs 1 and 2;
Ch. VI, only paragraph 9.
Some slides will be distributed during lessons, which students can use to prepare the exam.
Teaching methods
Lectures and classroom discussion with students.
Assessment methods and criteria
The final exam will be in written form.
Other information
Nothing to report
