Unit(s) of Assessment	Weighting towards Module Mark (%)
Written essay (5,000 words)	75%
Presentation	25%

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. 

First Degree in Law (LLB)

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. 

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. 

8 x 3-hour sessions spread across the semester

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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