Detailed programme for all students

In specific the Course will deal with the following issues. The historical development of the European Union from its origin to the Lisbon Treaty; the institutional frame of the EU; the constitutional principles: EU citizenship and the protection of fundamental rights, the principles of attributed competences and of subsidiarity. Hints will then be given to the European Security and Defence Policy and to the External Action, included the general treaty powers competences. Further the EU institutional frame will be dealt into deep, including the composition and powers of EC institutions, the law-making process and the so called democratic deficit; primary and secondary law; principles of direct applicability and direct effects. Special attention will be awarded to the jurisdictional remedies. The field is approached from the composition and functioning of European Union Court of Justice; it then moves to the rich relation between EUCJ and national courts, including State liability under Francovich, and further deepens EUCJ jurisdiction: direct action for annulment, for infringement of EU law, for failure to act; preliminary rulings procedure. Last topic on the course will be the relations between national legal system and EU system, where special references will be given to the different approaches underlying national and European supreme Courts.

Detailed program for attending students

Students attending classes and students not attending classes in principle have the same program and  workload 

However, since frequent and full reference to the European Court of Justice and the EU Tribunal will be made during classes, slight adjustments to the program are always possible in response to the reactions from students actively participating in the classes. Possible changes vary each year; detailed instructions will be given accordingly.