Unit EUROPEAN UNION LAW
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP003822
- Curriculum
- Relazioni internazionali
- Teacher
- Fabio Raspadori
- Teachers
-
- Fabio Raspadori
- Hours
- 42 ore - Fabio Raspadori
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- IUS/13
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Study of the European integration process, underpinning the fundamental treaties and their reforms. European Union's competences and their appliance. The EU institutions and main bodies. European sources of law and their legislative and normative procedures. The judiciary control system.
- Reference texts
- Textbooks
Courses with 9 credits
Girolamo STROZZI, Roberto MASTROIANNI, Diritto dell’Unione europea – Parte istituzionale, 7° edizione, Giappichelli Editore, Torino, 2016, pp. IX-474 (o successive)
- B. Nascimbene (ed.), Unione europea - Trattati, Giappichelli, Torino, 2010, or other code updated to the Treaty of Lisbon (the texts of the founding Treaties and the other principal European acts are also available at www.europa.eu).
- Documents will be distributed during the course.
Courses with 6 credits
Girolamo STROZZI, Roberto MASTROIANNI, Diritto dell’Unione europea – Parte istituzionale, Sesta edizione, Giappichelli Editore, Torino, 2013, pp. IX-474 (with the exception of chaps.: II, parr. 11,12 e 13; IV parr. 4,5,6,7,8,9: V parr. 5,6,7,8)
( VI and VIII)
- B. Nascimbene (ed.), Unione europea - Trattati, Giappichelli, Torino, 2010, or other code updated to the Treaty of Lisbon (the texts of the founding Treaties and the other principal European acts are also available at www.europa.eu). - Educational objectives
- The course provides students with cognitive tools and delines a critical context for understanding the process of European integration. To pursue this aim it will highlight the main features relating to: the nature of the EU and the integration process, the European institutions and the major organs of the Union, the sources of the European law, the procedures for the adoption of EU legislation, the European competences and their exercise, the European judicial system, the relationship between EU law and national law. Aspects and notions connected to the development cooperation will have special attention.
At the end of the course it is expected that students have acquired the basic elements of European law and are able to apply the concepts learned: to work at public and private level, to cotinue their specialized studies (in particular in international relations); to improve their European citizenship awareness. - Prerequisites
- It is better to have done the exam of International public law
- Teaching methods
- The course will take place in the classroom. Students who say they intend to follow the course will be considered attending students. To maintain the status of attending student it is needed: attend at least 75% of the classes (signatures in the classroom) to participate to: self-assessment tests that will be offered during the course (at least 4 out of 5), seminars on specific topics; receive and study in-depth study materials that will be delivered via e-mail by the teacher during the course.
Students will be given the option to participate at a visit of study to the European institutions in Brussels. - Learning verification modality
- The final exam is oral. The attending students who have participated actively and profitably to the classroom activities will have a minimum score from which determinate the final score at the exam . The status of attending student has a valid of one academic year.
- Extended program
- Module I: Nature, objectives and general characteristics
The integration process (requirements, birth and evolution), the nature of the EU and the founding treaties, objectives and values of EU, admission, revision and withdrawal procedures; human rights and the democratic deficit, the national parliaments, the European citizenship.
Module II: the Institutions and bodies of the EU
The EU institutions and bodies (framework), the European Parliament (character, composition, functions, and elections), the European Council, the EU Council of Ministers (characters, structure, functions, voting), the Commission (characters, structure, appointment, duties, resignation), the other institutions (ECB, Court of Auditors), the EU bodies (committees, EIB, agencies, ..)
Module III: The EU competences
The principle of conferred powers, the EU powers (types), the exercise of powers (subsidiarity, proportionality, implied powers ..), asymmetric integration and closer cooperation. Deepen analisys of the European development cooperation policy
Module IV: EU sources of law and legislative and non-legislative procedures
The sources of law in general, acts of primary law, the general principles of EU law and EU agreements, the secondary legislation (types, common features); standard acts of the EU, the ordinary legislative procedure, special legislative procedures, the conclusion of EU agreements, the EU budget (resources, expenditures, financial framework)
Module V: judicial review and the relationship with domestic laws
The national and European forms of judicial review; control over states (infringement procedure), the control of EU acts (annulment, failure to act, validity), the court ruling, the EU law and the relations with the domestic laws (the primacy of EU law, constitutional structure of the member States: State and regions)
Support activities for teaching (types and hours)
Throughout the academic year the professor and his assistant (Mr. Massimo Bartoli) will be available, at least half a day a week, to issue guidance on the topics of the course. This includes providing useful information on the EU to achieve the objectives and vocational training of the students who follow the course. The office timetable are available at the Student Secretariat.