After this course:
- the student has improved knowledge of European law – especially the system of judicial protection and enforcement- and the way in which this law produces effects in the Member States.
- the student has knowledge and understanding of the relation between European and national public law, more particularly of how EU law changes fundamental aspects of the administrative law of the EU Member States.
- the student is able to apply regulations and case law, solve cases, apply legal reasoning.
- the student is able to collect relevant materials both orally and in writing, individually and in groups, to analyze, explain, comment on and explain these materials.
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This course offers a broad insight into the problems that occur in the practical application of European Union law in the national legal orders of the Member States. The course focuses on the relation between European and national judicial systems. More in particular, the emphasis lies on the enforcement of EU law in the Member States and in particular on the legal ways and means for the judicial protection of rights of individuals.
During the course, the students will, in the first place, improve their knowledge of European law and notably the way in which this law produces effects in the Member States. Furthermore, the course will also offer a good opportunity to learn more about the legal systems of the various Member States, as the relevant problems will be explored from a comparative perspective. In this respect, active input will be required from the students. EU and national case law analysis will thus form an important pillar of the course.
The main topics addressed in this course are the EU legal doctrines of national procedural autonomy, direct effect, consistent interpretation, the organization of judicial protection in the EU, state liability, questions of enforcement of European law in the national legal order, the influence of European law on general principles of (public) law like legal certainty, transparency, the rights of defence and the principle of proportionality. The topics are approached from the perspective of an integrated legal order.
Place of the course within the curriculum:
- Compulsory course in the specialisation 'European Law'
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