Base Knowledge
With the analysis of the programmatic contents exposed and taught, it is intended that students acquire knowledge that will allow them to: (1) grasp the importance of the European integration process, analyzing their past, perceiving the present and the influence on their daily live as well as critically considering the main challenges that arise, nowadays in the European Union; (2) understand the functioning of the European Union as a union of states and citizens.
Teaching Methodologies
The classes will have a theoretical-practical nature, being privileged the expositive, formative, interactive and interrogative method.
We start from the exposition and analysis of concrete situations towards the identification and analysis of the referral thematic, after which we will make the exposition of the concepts involved and the identification and interpretation of the applicable norms and principles
Learning Results
Goals:
Understanding the European integration process (past, present and future): its main achievements and
future challenges.
Characterization of the Legal System of the Union: principles, sources, nature, characteristics, institutional
system and judicial organization.
Characterization of the European internal market and the legal framework of fundamental rights in the EU.
Skills:
Ability to understand and interpret the existing Treaties;
Ability to understand European organization: political, economic, institutional, judicial;
Ability to analyze and implement the Regulatory Framework of the European Union;
Ability to understand the regime of fundamental rights in its relations with national legal systems and the
jurisdiction of the Council of Europe.
Program
CHAPTER I – HISTORY OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
1. Cultural-Historical Context
2. The creation of the European Communities
a. The founding treaties
b. The constitutionalization of European integration
CHAPTER II – RIGHT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, EUROPEAN LAW AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
1. The European Union Law
2. The European Union law and European law
3. European Union Law and International Law
4. European Union Law and National Law
CHAPTER III – ORGANIZATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
1. Integration Model
2. Division of powers
3. European Institutions
CHAPTER IV-REGULATORY STRUCTURES
1. The European Union law
2. Characteristics of the European legal system
3. Normative structures of EU law
4. Normative force of the European legal system
CHAPTER V – CITIZENSHIP AND EUROPEAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
1. European Citizenship
2. The protection of fundamental rights
3. The EU and the ECHR
4. Fundamental freedoms of the internal market
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
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