European Primary and Secondary Law

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with the sources of EU law by studying all the categories of the EU’s primary and secondary legal measures. Each class will be devoted to specific legal acts whose legal nature, binding quality, specificity, structure, effects, application and place in the hierarchy of the European Union’s sources will be examined. The relevant case-law of the Court of Justice Of the EU will be regularly studied in order to demonstrate the particularities of each legal act. Students will also have to analyze concrete examples of EU measures not only acquainting themselves in a practical manner with their characteristics but also learning how to distinguish and efficiently read them.

1. Introduction to the sources of EU law

2. EU Treaties

3. General principles of EU law

4. Charter of Fundamental Rights

5. International agreements

6. Regulations

7. Directives

8. Decisions

9. Soft-law & other EU measures

Koen Lenaerts (2011), European Union Law, Sweet & Maxwell

Artur Kuś (ed.) (2013), Introduction to European Union Institutional Law, Wydawnictwo KUL

Paul Craig, Gráinne de Búrca (2008), EU law: text, cases and materials, Oxford University Press

Damian Chalmers, Gareth Davies, Giorgio Monti (2010), European Union law: cases and materials, Cambridge University Press

Marios Costa, Steve Peers (2020), Steiner & Woods EU law, Oxford University Press

Nigel Foster (2009), Foster on EU law, Oxford University Press

August Reinisch (2012), Essentials of EU law, Cambridge University Press

Stephen Weatherill (2007), Cases and materials on EU law, Oxford University Press

Ulf Bernitz, Xavier Groussot, Felix Schulyok (2013), General principles of EU law and European private law, Kluwer Law International

Andrea Biondi, Piet Eeckhout, Stefanie Ripley (2012), EU law after Lisbon, Oxford University Press

Paul Craig, Gráinne de Búrca (2011), The evolution of EU law, Oxford University Press

Alina Kaczorowska (2009), European Union Law, Routledge

Diamond Ashiagbor, Nicola Countouris, Ioannis Lianos (eds.) (2012), The European Union after the Treaty of Lisbon, Cambridge

Daniel Augenstein (ed.) (2012), ‘Integration through Law’ Revisited. The Making of the European Polity, Ashgate

Knowledge:

The graduate knows and understands the fundamental legal and ethical norms constituting and regulating European social and economic structures and institutions K_W07

Skills:

The graduate is able to observe and interpret various social phenomena taking place in Europe and the European Union and to analyze the links between cultural, political, economic and legal areas in the internal and external dimension K_U01

The graduate is able to analyze at the basic level solutions to specific problems in the social, political and economic areas of the European Union and Europe and to propose appropriate solutions in this regard K_U05

Social competence:

The graduate is ready to represent in an institutionalized manner the diverse interests of various social groups, taking into account the political, economic and legal aspects of the undertaken initiatives K_K05

Active participation

Written exam