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2010/1 Module Catalogue
 Module Code: LAWM040 Module Title: EU CITIZENSHIP: FORGING A COMMON EUROPEAN IDENTITY?
Module Provider: School of Law Short Name: LAWM040
Level: M Module Co-ordinator: KONSTADINIDES T Dr (Schl of Law)
Number of credits: 30 Number of ECTS credits: 15
 
Module Availability
Autumn Semester
Assessment Pattern

Unit(s) of Assessment

 

Weighting towards Module Mark (%)

 

Written essay (5,000 words)

 

75%

 

Presentation

 

25%

 

Module Overview

The course aims to provide a kaleidoscope of the theoretical and practical legal aspects of EU Citizenship.  It will initially explore the role of national citizenship and the significance of individual membership to the EU as a political community and the experience of belonging to a collective social and cultural community with full functional and non-functional aspects.  The course will investigate the ECJ’s jurisprudence on EU Citizenship as a ‘fundamental status of nationals of Member States’ guaranteeing the right to non-discrimination on grounds of nationality’ (Art. 12 EC).  EU Citizenship will be further discussed in the context of the idea of ‘Fortress Europe’ and the conditionality introduced by the Europe Agreements in conjunction with the phraseology used by the drafters of the EC Treaty in Article 18 EC.  The Citizenship conundrum will also be examined in the context of secondary EC legislation (in particular the recent Citizenship Directive 2004/38).  Further questions of evolving rights and duties, social policy, discrimination and equal treatment, political integration, free movement and migration of third-country nationals will be explored during the course. 

Prerequisites/Co-requisites

First Degree in Law (LLB)

Module Aims

The course aims to provide a kaleidoscope of the theoretical and practical legal aspects of EU Citizenship.  It will initially explore the role of national citizenship and the significance of individual membership to the EU as a political community and the experience of belonging to a collective social and cultural community with full functional and non-functional aspects.  The course will investigate the ECJ’s jurisprudence on EU Citizenship as a ‘fundamental status of nationals of Member States’ guaranteeing the right to non-discrimination on grounds of nationality’ (Art. 12 EC).  EU Citizenship will be further discussed in the context of the idea of ‘Fortress Europe’ and the conditionality introduced by the Europe Agreements in conjunction with the phraseology used by the drafters of the EC Treaty in Article 18 EC.  The Citizenship conundrum will also be examined in the context of secondary EC legislation (in particular the recent Citizenship Directive 2004/38).  Further questions of evolving rights and duties, social policy, discrimination and equal treatment, political integration, free movement and migration of third-country nationals will be explored during the course. 

Learning Outcomes

From this course the student will obtain an understanding of the contemporary issues pertinent to EU citizenship: the different connotations attributed to the notion itself, mobility rights and non-discrimination, the idiosyncrasies of the Europe Agreements and accession provisions, the jurisprudential and legislative dissonance arising from the efforts of the EU Institutions to distinguish between migrant EU Citizens and third country nationals.  The student will be equipped with the critical skills to analyse the democratic and constitutional arrangements of the EU polity and the current dilemma around the notion of trans-national citizenship, federalism, cosmopolitanism, civil, social and political rights. 

Module Content

·               Citizenship and the traditional conception of state sovereignty: identity, nationhood and convergence in European nationality law

 

·               A multifaceted Citizenship between the market and the state: free movement of persons and the codification of the legal status of EU Citizenship – The EC Treaty and the Citizenship Directive

 

·               The pursuit of true trans-national Citizenship: a historical analysis of the ECJ’s jurisprudence on civil, social, political, electoral rights and duties of EU Citizens

 

·               Exclusive Citizenship and “Fortress Europa”: Third Country nationals as family members, refugees and asylum seekers – Europe Agreements, Cooperation Agreements and the Schengen Acquis

 

·               Conditional Citizenship and EU Enlargement: The schism between ‘first class’ and ‘second class’ Citizens – The 2003 Act of Accession and Transitional Arrangements

 

·               Citizenship and the progressive establishment of an area of freedom, security and justice

 

·               Evaluation of EU Citizenship and the ‘F’ word: An immature and superficial concept for an illusive Federal Union or a European demos for a supranational polity?

 

 

Methods of Teaching/Learning

8 x 3-hour sessions spread across the semester

Selected Texts/Journals

Essential reading

 

Spaventa, E. Free Movement of Persons in the EU: Barriers to Movement in their Constitutional Context (Kluwer, 2007)

 

De Bùrca, G. EU Law and the Welfare State: In Search of Solidarity: Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law (OUP, 2005)

 

Shaw, J. The Economic and Social Law of the EU (Palgrave, 2007)

 

White, R. C. A Workers, Establishment and Services in the European Union (OUP, 2004)

 

Craig, P. & De Bùrca EU Law: Text, Cases and Materials (OUP, 2008)

 

 

Further reading

 

Weil, P. & Hansen, R. Towards a European Nationality: Citizenship, Immigration & Nationality Law in the EU (Palgrave, 2002)

 

Shaw, J. The Transformation of Citizenship in the EU ( Cambridge , 2008)

 

De Bùrca, G. EU Law and the Welfare State: In Search of Solidarity (OUP, 2005)

 

Dehousse, R. The European Court of Justice: the Politics of Judicial Integration (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998)

 

Kymlicka, W Multicultural Citizenship (OUP, 1995)

 

Aristotle The Politics (Penguin, 1962)

 

Gellner, E. Nations and Nationalism (Oxford: Blackwell, 1983)

 

Hammar, T. Democracy and the Nation-State.  Liens, Denizens and Citizens of a World of International Migration (Aldershot: Avebury, 1990)

 

Hobbes, T. Leviathan (London: Everyman’s Library, 1973)

 

Joeges, Meny & Weiler, J. H. H. (Eds) What Kind of Constitution for What Kind of Polity? (Florence: EUI, 2000)

 

Miller, D. On Nationality (OUP, 1995)

 

Soysal, Y. Limits of Citizenship.  Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europe (Chicago University Press, 1994)

 

 

Journal articles

 

Barber, ‘Citizenship, Nationalism and the European Union’ (27 (3) European Law Review 241, 2002)

 

Coppel & O’Neil, ‘European Court of Justice: Taking Rights Seriously?’ (29 Common Market Law Review 541-58, 1992)

 

Cruz ‘Whither Europe and When: Citizen Fischer and the European Federation’ (7/00 Harvard Jean Monnet Working Papers, NYU, 2000)

 

Golynker, ‘Jobseekers’ Rights in the European Union: Challenges of Changing the Paradigm of Social Solidarity’ (30 European Law Review 11, 2005)

 

Guild, E. ‘Developing European Citizenship or Discarding It?  Multicultural Citizenship Theory in the Light of the Carpenter Judgement of the ECJ’ (12 (2) The Good Society, 2003)

 

Dougan and Spaventa ‘Educating Rudy and the (non-) English Patient: a Double-bill on Residency Rights Under Articla 18 EC’ (28 ELRev 699, 2003)

 

Dougan, ‘Fees, Grants, Loans and Dole Cheques: Who Covers the Costs of Migrant Education within the EU?” (42Common Market Law Review 943, 2005)

 

Hailbronner ‘Union Citizenship and Access to Social Benefits’ (42 Common Market Law Review 1245, 2005)

 

Hilson ‘What’s in a Right? The Relationship Between Community, Fundamental and Citizenship Rights in EU Law’ (29 (5) European Law Review 636, 2004)

 

Iliopoulou and Toner ‘A New Approach to Discrimination Against Free Movers? D’Hoop v National de l’Emploi’ (28 ELRev 389, 2003)

 

Jacqueson ‘Union Citizenship and the Court of Justice: Something New Under the Sun? Towards Social Citizenship’ (27 (3) European Law Review 206 – 281, 3003)

 

Kostakopoulou, ‘Is There an Alternative to Schengenland?’ (46 (5) Political Studies 886 – 902, 1998)

 

Kunoy, ‘A Union of National Citizens: the Origins of the Court’s Lack of Avant-gardisme in the Chen Case’ (43 Common Market Law Review 179 – 190, 2006)

 

MacCormick ‘Democracy, Subsidiarity, and Citizenship in the ‘European Commonwealth’’ (16 Law and Philosophy 331 – 356, 1997)

 

Mancini ‘Europe: The Case for Statehood’ (4 European Law Journal 29, 1998)

 

Pogge, T. ‘Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty’ Ethics (103 October 92:48 – 75, 1992)

 

Shaw, ‘Postnational Constitutionalism in the European Union’ (6 Journal of European Public Policy 579, 1999)

 

Shaw & Wiener ‘ The Paradox of the European Polity’ (10/99 Harvard Jean Monnet Working Papers, NYU, 1999)

 

Spiermann ‘The Other Side of the Story: A Unpopular Essay on the Making of the European Community Legal Order’ (10 (4) European Journal of International Law 763, 1999)

 

Weiler, ‘federalism and Constitutionalism: Europe’s Sonderweg’ (Harvard’s Jean Monnet Working Papers, NYU, 2000)

 

Weiler & Fries ‘A Human Rights Policy for the European Community and Union: The Question of Competences’ (4/99 Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper, NYU, 1999)

 

Weiler, ‘The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in the European Union: Integration and Disintegration, Values and Processes (2/96 Harvard Jean Monnet Working Paper, NYU, 1996)

 

Weiler, ‘The State ‘über alles’: Demos; Telos and the German Maastricht Decision’ (1 European Law Journal 219, 1995)

 

Weiler, ‘The Transformation of Europe’ (100 Yale Law Journal 2403 – 2483, 1991)

 

Weiner ‘Forging Flexibility – the British ‘No’ to Schengen (00/1 Arena Working Paper, Oslo, 2000)

 

 

Relevant journals

 

Common Market Law Review

 

European Law Review

 

European Law Journal

 

Maastricht Journal of European & Comparative Law

 

European Public Law

 

Journal of Common Market Studies

 

Journal of European Public Policy

 

Legal Issues of European Integration

 

European Review of Public Law

 

European Journal of Legal Integration

 

European Voice

 

 

Case Law

 

Case C – 369/90 Micheletti [07.07.1992] ECR I-04239

 

Case C – 193-94 Skanavi [1996] ECR I-00929

 

Case C – 64-65/96 Uecker and Jaquet [1997] ECR I-03171

 

Case C – 85/96 Martinez Sala [1998] ECR I-02691

 

Case C – 224/98 D’Hoop [2002] ECR I-06191

 

Case C – 184/99 Grzelczyk [2001] ECR I-06193

 

Case C – 413/99 Baumbast [2002] ECR I-07091

 

Case C - 60/00 Carpenter [2002] ECR I-06279
Case C - 112/00 Schmidberger [2003] ECR I-05659
Case C – 100/01 Oteiza Olazabal [2002] ECR I-10981
Case C - 109/01 Akrich [2003] ECR I-09607
Case C - 413/01 Ninni – Orasche [2003] ECR I-13187
Case C - 36/02 Omega [2004] ECR I-09609
Case C - 138/02 Collins [2004] ECR I-02703
Case C - 148/02 Garcia Avello [2003] ECR I-11613
Case C - 200/02 Zhu and Chen [2004] ECR I-09925
Case C–224/02 Heikki Antero Pusa [2004] ECR I- 05763
Case C - 456/02 Trojani [2004] ECR I-07573
Case C - 147/03 Commission v Austria [2005] ECR I-05969
Case C - 209/03 Bidar [2005] ECR I-02119
Case C - 286/03 Hosse [2006] ECR I-01771
Case C - 403/03 Egon Schempp [2005] ECR I-06421
Case C - 408/03 Commission v Belgium [2006] ECR I-02647
Case C - 540/03 Parliament v Council [27.06.2006] ECR I-05769
Case C - 145/04 Spain v UK [2006] ECR I-07917
Case C - 258/04 Ioannis Ioannidis [2005] ECR I-08275
Case C - 300/04 Eman and Sevinger [2006] ECR I-08055
Case C - 406/04 De Cuyper [2006] ECR I-06947
Case C - 192/05 Tas Hagen and Tas [2006] ECR I-10451
Case C - 287/05 Hendrix [2007] ECR I-00000

 

Case C - 50/06 Commission v Netherlands [2007] ECR I-00000

 

 

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15.09.2009