Learning outcomes

Familiarise students with the rules and operating principles of the European Union

Goals

Understand and critique the workings of the European Union

Follow and understand the major challenges of European integration

understand the relationship between the European legal order and the national legal order

Content

The course consists of the following parts:

- Introduction

- The institutional system and competences of the European Union

- The European decision-making process

- The legal order of the European Union

- European judicial control

Table of contents

Introduction to the course and its method

Institutional system

Decision-making process

EU legal order

Judicial control of the EU

Exercices

available on webcampus

Assessment method

Examination in January.

Partly based on home preparation and attendance at face-to-face sessions and partly based on an in-session examination. The examination arrangements will be determined in agreement with the students on the basis of the number of students and the dynamics of the course.

Sources, references and any support material

Syllabus summarising the subject matter

European Treaties

Collection of documents

Language of instruction

Français
Training Study programme Block Credits Mandatory
Bachelor in Law (Evenings and Weekends Schedule) Standard 0 6
Bachelor in Law (Evenings and Weekends Schedule) Standard 3 6