European Constitutional Law
Syllabus
Instructors
Instructor: Triantafyllia (Lina) Papadopoyloy, Associate Professor
http://law-constitution.web.auth.gr/lina/cv/
http://www.monnet-centre.uni-bremen.de/projects/thinkingbeyond/pdf/LinaPapadopoulou_CV.pdf
Content Development Associate: Vasiliki Kokota
Course Syllabus
- The EU as an international (or supranational?) organization.
- The institutional framework of EU.
- The European Union as a sui generis organization.
- Can the European Union as a sui generis organization have a constitution?
- The material Constitution of the EU.
- Democracy and legitimacy of EU.
- The protection of fundamental rights at EU level.
- Judicial protection of individuals.
- The European Citizenship.
- The contribution of National Parliaments to the good functioning of the EU
Course Objectives/Goals
Understanding the functioning of the European Union. Relations between the Member States.
Constitutional principles and values common to European level.
Prerequisites/Prior Knowledge
- There are no prerequisite courses.
- Good knowledge of contitutional and EU law is desired for better understanding.
Bibliography
- Hermann-Josef Blanke, Stelio Mangiameli (eds), The European Union after Lisbon - Constitutional Basis, Economic Order and External Action, 2012.
Additional recommended literature
- Λ. Παπαδοπούλου, Εθνικό Σύνταγμα και Κοινοτικό Δίκαιο, το ζήτημα της υπεροχής, Κέντρο Ευρωπαϊκού Συνταγματικού Δικαίου "Ίδρυμα Θεμιστοκλή και Δημήτρη Τσάτσου", Αντ. Σάκκουλα, 2009
- Ernst Haas, The Obsolescence of Regional Integration Theory, Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1975.
- K. Nicolaïdes, The New Constitution as European Demoi-cracy?, The Federal Trust 2003.
- European Constitutionalism Beyond the State, Weiler/Wind (eds), CUP 2003.
Target Group
Erasmus students and foreign speakers with interests on European and constitutional law, international relations and political science.