6067 - INTERNATIONAL AND EUROPEAN LAW

This course aims to provide a general knowledge of the central topics of European and international law. It is intended to familiarize students with the particular features of the international legal system, its subjects, its sources and its basic principles. It outlines the history and development of the European Community/Union, its institutional structure and legislative process as well as its main policy areas: the internal market, the common commercial policy, competition law and external relations. Particular emphasis is put on the economic aspects of both international and European law.

First part: European Law

• History of the European integration
• The institutional framework: European Community and European Union.
• The making and effect of Community Law: the main legislative procedures in the EC
• Relationship between EC Law and the law of the Member States
• Judicial control and the protection of fundamental rights within the Community
• The four freedoms of the internal market (goods, persons, establishment and services, capital)
• Competition Law: restrictive agreements and abuse of dominant position.
• Other selected community policies: Intellectual Property, the Common Commercial Policy
• The EC/EU as an international actor: external relations and international agreements of the EC
• From European political cooperation to a common foreign and security policy
• The Lisbon Treaty

Second part:International Law

• Basic concepts and historical overview.
• Sources of International Law: custom and general principles of law, soft law.
• Treaties: negotiation, conclusion, effects, interpretation.
• International law and national legal systems.
• The subjects of International Law: states and other entities.
• International organizations: membership, structure, and functions.
• International economic organizations: WTO, World Bank, IMF, OECD.
• The United Nations, international peace & security and the use of force.
• Settlement of disputes: international courts.
• The status of the individual in PIL and Human Rights.
• International Criminal Justice.

Written intermediate and final exam.

• For European Law: E. DEARDS, S. HARGREAVES, European Union law: textbook, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007.
• For International Law: the reading material will be made available printed and online at the beginning of the course.