96323 - EUROPEAN UNION LAW

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics, Politics and Social Sciences (cod. 5819)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course unit, students: have developed the ability to analyse the main implications of the EU institutional structure and to determine the overall effects of the law into the municipal legal orders of the Member States; are capable to illustrate the main trends of the interplay between the Union and its Member States (both internally and on the international scene).

Course contents

The module presents the principal elements of EU constitutional law, namely: sources of EU law, EU competences, institutions, law-making procedures, judicial procedures, implementation of EU law in the Member States.

Readings/Bibliography

Robert Schütze, An Introduction to European Law, OUP, 2020 or 2023, (ch. 1-4; 7-8; 12)

Teaching methods

The course will be based on lectures and debates.

Assessment methods

The exam of "European Union Law" will be in written form on VIRTUALE (please, take your laptop).

The exam will be in oral form only for the students that have to obtain fewer than 5 credits. Students that have to take oral exams should contact the lecturer beforehand.

The exam will include open-ended questions and closed questions.

Please notice that, for administrative purposes, the course 'European Union Law' forms, together with "Foundations of international law [https://www.unibo.it/en/teaching/course-unit-catalogue/course-unit/2022/485988] ", the 'Integrated course' EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. Students will take the exams of European Union Law and Foundational of International Law separately. The rules for the exam of Foundations of international law are explained in the webpage [https://www.unibo.it/en/teaching/course-unit-catalogue/course-unit/2022/485988] of that course. Once students have passed the exams of both European Union law and Foundations of International Law, they will obtain a final grade in EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. The final grade will be the average of the grades of the exams of European Union Law and Foundations of International Law.

Office hours

See the website of Susanna Villani