Learning outcomes

Introduce students to the rules and principles governing the functioning of the European Union.

Goals

  • Analyze and critically assess the functioning of the European Union
  • Track and evaluate the major challenges facing European integration
  • traUnderstand and explain the relationship between the European legal order and national legal systems

Content

The course consists of the following parts:

- Introduction

- The institutional system


- The legal order of the European Union


-The competences of the European Union

- The European decision-making process

- European judicial control

Table of contents

  1. Introduction to the course and its methodology
  2. The institutional system of the European Union
  3. The legal order
  4. The EU competences
  5. The decision-making process
  6. Judicial review within the European Union

Exercices

Available on Webcampus

Teaching methods

Home preparation based on documents and exercises available on the webcampus and face-to-face sessions during which the presence and active participation of all students is required. During the course, students must take the European Constitutional Treaties (TEU, TFEU).

Assessment method

Oral examination in the first and second sessions

Sources, references and any support material

Syllabus summarising the subject matter

European Treaties

Collection of documents

Language of instruction

French
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