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2010/1 Module Catalogue
 Module Code: LAWM019 Module Title: EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW
Module Provider: School of Law Short Name: LAWM019
Level: M Module Co-ordinator: KONSTADINIDES T Dr (Schl of Law)
Number of credits: 30 Number of ECTS credits: 15
 
Module Availability

1st Semester

 
Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment

 
Weighting towards Module Mark (%)

 

Coursework

 

75%

 

Presentation

 

25%

 

Module Overview

The module encourages the development of a critical perspective of matters relating to the law and the institutional framework of the European Union and European Community administrative law.

 

Prerequisites/Co-requisites

None

 
Module Aims

The aim of the module is to provide an advanced level course in the public (constitutional and administrative) law of the European Union and its context within the framework of other European public law structures.

 
Learning Outcomes

The module encourages the development of a critical perspective of matters relating to the law and integration of the European Union and European Community.

 

 

The course aims to equip the student with the knowledge of the history and structure of the European Union and European Community and understanding of the general principles of the Constitutional and Institutional Law of the EU, focusing on the main concepts of EU constitutionalism and governance, the scope of the EU law and the power relationship between the EU and the Member States’ legal orders.

 
Module Content

·             EU Constitutional Law: Concepts and Context

 

·             The Changing Role of an Economic, Social and Political Union

 

·             From the European Coal and Steel Community to the New Reform Treaty

 

·             Institutional Balance: The Horizontal Relationship Between the Community Institutions

 

·             Supremacy, Pre-emption and the Scattered European Constitution

 

·             Subsidiary and Proportionality

 

·             The Evolution of Community Competences and the Phenomenon of “Competence Creep”

 

·             The EU and Democratically Legitimate Governance Beyond the Nation State

 

·             EU Citizenship and Human Rights

 

·             The Constitutional Deadlock of the Stalled EU Constitutional Treaty and the Recent Agreement on the Outlines of a New EU Reform Treaty

 

·             A Core Europe

 

Methods of Teaching/Learning

8 x 3-hour seminars.  The seminars will be interactive and students will be expected to come prepared for the seminar and engage actively in discussions

 
Selected Texts/Journals

Essential reading

 

Birkenshaw, P. European Public Law ( London : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2003)

 

 

Background reading

 

Foster, N. EC Legislation 2006-7 (Blackstone, 2007)

 

Weatherill, EU Law: Cases and Materials (OUP, 2006)

 

Craig, P. & de Burca, G. EC Law, Text Cases and Materials (OUP, 2007)

 

Lenaerts, K. & Van Nuffel, P. Constitutional Law of the European Union (Sweet & Maxwell, 2006)

 

Craig, P. EU Administrative Law (OUP, 2006)

 

Tridimas, T. & Nebbia, P. (Eds) EU Law for the 21st Century: Rethinking the New Legal Order Volume 1 (Hart, 2004)

 

Weiler, J. H. H. The Constitution of Europe : Do the New Clothes Have an Emperor?  And Other Essays on European Integration ( Cambridge , 1999)

 

Dehousse, R. The European Court of Justice (Macmillan, 1998)

 

Harlow , C. Accountability in the European Union (OUP, 2003)

 

 

Recommended journals – hard copies

 

Common Market Law Review

 

European Law Review

 

European Law Journal

 

Maastricht Journal of European Law

 

European Public Law

 

Journal of Common Market Studies

 

Journal of European Public Law

 

Legal Issues of European Integration

 

European Review of Public Law

 

European Journal of Legal Integration

 

Journal of European Public Policy

 

Public Law

 

Modern Law Review

 

West European Politics

 

 

Recommended journals – online journals

 

EU Observer

 

European Research Papers Archive (ERPA)

 

Jean Monnet Working Papers (NYU)

 

Robert Schuman Working Papers (EUI)

 

European Federal Trust ( London )

 

Queen’s Papers on Europeanization ( Belfast )

 

Arena Working Papers ( Oslo )

 

 

Web resources

 

University of Surrey Online Library – This provides a handy online access to Electronic Journals (e.g. European Law Journal) and Online Databases (e.g. Eur-Lex, Eurolaw on JUSTIS, Westlaw, Ingenta etc):

 

http://portal.surrey.ac.uk/portal/page?_pageid=734,1004752&_dad=partal&_schema=PORTAL

 

Official Journal of the European Union:

 

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/en/index.htm

 

Last Updated

10/02/2011