CLEA

Language:

Italian
Textbooks:

U. VILLANI, E. TRIGGIANI, Comprendere l'Unione europea, Cacucci Bari, 2022, Chapters I-XV.

In English, for Erasmus students:
Matthew J. Homewood, EU Law Concentrate, seventh edition,2020 (all book).

https://www.amazon.it/EU-Law-Concentrate-Revision-Study/dp/0198854994
The texts of the TEU and TFEU can be found online.
Learning objectives:

The course aims at providing students with a basic knowledge of the foundations of the legal system of the European Union, through the analysis of the terminological and technical tools necessary to understand the complex process that leads to the adoption of EU legislative acts and to the protection of individuals. In this perspective, the course does not only focus on the acquisition of notions, but aims at developing the student's ability to legal reasoning and independent and critical assessment, in relation to a legal system with specific characteristics and features.
Prerequisite:

Constitutional Law for SEGI students
Teaching methods:

Lectures
Exam type:

Written exam (vote expressed in thirtieths), aimed at ascertaining the knowledge and ability to interpret and analyze institutional structure of the European Union.
Sostenibilità:
Further information:

E-mail: ilaria.ottaviano@unidav.it

Office hours: by appointment.

The course will focus on the legal framework of the European Union and its institutional system. The issues related to the decision-making process, the sources, the relationship between the EU and the Italian legal system, the judicial protection will be particularly deepened. The preparation will include an analysis of the most relevant case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

- The European Union: origins and development.
- The institutional structure of the EU.
-The EU values and their guarantee.
- Adhesion and withdrawal.
- The competences.
- The sources.
- General principles and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
- The acts and their effects.
- The implementation of EU law in domestic legal systems.
- The primacy of EU law.
- Violation of EU law: the EU judicial system.
- The preliminary ruling