Introduction to EU Law

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Synchronous sessions will take place on Thursdays from 15:00 to17:00

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EU Law Tutorial 1-2PM

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Glossary of EU Law Terminology

14th January - Introduction to the EU law Course - History of Integration - The Path from Rome to Lisbon via Maastricht

Andrew Glencross, Brexit deal done: what’s in it and where next for the UK and EU?

EU Commission, EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: protecting European Interests, enduring fair competition and continued cooperation in areas of mutual interest (skim-read)

Tutorial 1 - Introduction to EU Law: History of Integration - The Path from Rome to Lisbon via Maastricht

Slides only - Class 1 - Introduction to the EU law Course - History of Integration - The Path from Rome to Lisbon via Maastricht

21st January - EU Institutions and law making

A.Moravscik, In Defence of the ‘Democratic Deficit: Reassessing legitimacy in the European Union, 2002 (4) Journal of Common Market Studies pp 603-24

A Follesdal &amp; S Hix, Why there is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravscik, 2006(4) Journal of Common Market Studies pp 533, 554

Allan Butt Phillip, How democratic is the European Union?

Tutorial 2 - EU Institutions and law making

Class 2 -Slides EU Institutions and law making

European Parliament- EU Law Making

28th January - The EU Judicial System and Preliminary Ruling

N Wahl L Prete, The Gatekeepers of Article 267: on Jurisdiction and Admissibility of references for Preliminary Rulings, Common Market Law Review (2018) 55: 511–548

Sébastien Platon, Writing Between the Lines. The preliminary ruling of the CJEU on the independence of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court.

Christopher Kuner, The Schrems II judgment of the Court of Justice and the future of data transfer regulation

Steve Peers, Analysis 4 of the Brexit deal: Dispute settlement and the EU/UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

Tutorial 3 - The EU Judicial System and Preliminary Ruling

Flowcharts: Judicial system

Class 3 Slides - The EU Judicial System and Preliminary Ruling

4th February - The relationship between EU law and national law –Primacy of EU law, Direct and Indirect effect

I Pernice, Multilevel constitutionalism and the crisis of democracy in Europe, E.C.L. Review 2015, 11(3), 541-562

P Craig, the Legal Effect of Directives: Policy, Rules and Exceptions

European Parliament Factsheet on the principle of subsidiarity

Flowcharts: Direct Effect

Tutorial 4 The relationship between EU law and national law –Primacy of EU law, Direct and Indirect Effect

Rossi, The relationship between the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Directives in horizontal situations

Class 4 Slides -The relationship between EU law and national law –Primacy of EU law, Direct and Indirect effect Help with File

11th February - EU Fundamental Rights

A Pliakos and G Anagnostaras, Fundamental Rights and the New Battle over Legal and Judicial Supremacy: Lessons from Melloni, Yearbook of European Law Vol 34, 1 2015 p 97-126

Tutorial 5 EU Fundamental Rights

Case Law on the Charter of Fundamental Rights

Covid-19: A New Struggle over Privacy, Data Protection and Human Rights? 4 MAY 2020/ BY ELIF MENDOS KUSKONMAZ AND ELSPETH GUILD

House of Commons Library How might Brexit affect human rights in the UK?, 2019

Class 5 EU Fundamental Rights Slides

Centre for International Governance Innovation, The Threats Brexit Poses to Human Rights, 2018

Franssen , Melloni as a Wake-up Call – Setting Limits to Higher National Standards of Fundamental Rights’ Protection

Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos, Conflicts between EU law and National Constitutional Law in the Field of Fundamental Rights

Tutorial 5 EU Fundamental Rights

25th February - EU Free Movement of People, the Global Pandemic and Brexit

S K Schmidt, M Blaubergerb and D S Martinsen, ‘Free movement and equal treatment in an unequal union’, Journal of European Public Policy, 2018 Vol 25 p. 1391-1402

European Commission- Factsheet_-_coronavirus_-_a_coordinated_approach_to_measures_restricting_free_movement_in_the_eu.pdf

Council of the EU COVID-19: Council updates recommendation on measures affecting free movement

Chanel 4, Councillor who has lived in UK for 19 years 'denied settled status'

Freemovement, Six very frequently asked questions about the EU Settlement Scheme

The independent, How will the UK's new points-based immigration system work after Brexit?

Tutorial 6 - EU Free Movement of People, the Global Pandemic and Brexit

Class 6 Slides

3rd March -EU Citizenship and Fundamental Rights

Directive 38/2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, esp. Articles 1-3, 6-7, 12-19, 22-29

E. Spaventa,Mice or horses? British citizens in the EU 27 after Brexit as “former EU citizens” E.L. Rev. 2019, 44(5), 589-604

H Kroeze The substance of rights: new pieces of the Ruiz Zambrano puzzle E.L. Rev. 2019, 44(2), 238-256

Dora Kostopolous The Configuration of Citizenship in (post-)Covid-19 EU: Thoughts on the EU Citizenship Report 2020

Tutorial 7 -EU Citizenship and Fundamental Rights

Class 7 Slides

Katja Swider, Legitimizing precarity of EU citizenship: Tjebbes Common Market Law Review 57: 1163–1182, 2020.

10th March - Migration into the EU

Legal Framework for EU Asylum Policy published in: Kay Hailbronner and Daniel Thym (eds.): EU Immigration and Asylum Law. Commentary, 2nd edition (C.H. Beck/Hart/Nomos, 2016), pp. 1023-1053.

European Law Blog, 'Adieu Dublin! But what’s next? 23 NOVEMBER 2020/ BY GURSIMRAN BAKSHI

Melanie Fink, ‘Frontex: Human Rights Responsibility and Access to Justice

C Barnard &amp; S Peers, European Union Law 2nd ed, Chapter 26 Immigration and Asylum.

Tutorial 8 Migration into the EU

A Follesdal & S Hix, Why there is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravscik, 2006(4) Journal of Common Market Studies pp 533, 554

C Barnard & S Peers, European Union Law 2nd ed, Chapter 26 Immigration and Asylum.

Wessel, Ramses, Chapter 1 The European Union as a Global Legal Actor in Wessel & Lari, EU External Relations Law, (2020) p 2-28