INGLESE

Good level of English
Basic knowledge of the legal importance of an EU Treaty, an EU Regulation and an EU Directive.

Lectures and case discussions

To provide the students with the fundamental knowledge regarding the legislative making process, especially as far as the relationships between EU Institutions, on one hand, and the role and position of citizens, on the other hand, are concerned.

Introduction on the EU Legal system: legislation and institutional functioning
The Strategies policies of the EU: economy, institutional and administrative system, enlargement
The legislative power
The financial power
The political Supervisory power
The management of the "crisis" times at the EU level
Citizens’ rights
The European Administration
The perspectives of the European Union.

The methodology is based on a participative and seminarian approach: students will be requested to submit presentation during the whole course. The course will be held in a module of one week time, with lessons and seminars. The examination will be in writing {prova scritta) immediately following the course.

Presentation of a oral report on specific issue, participation to the discussion, check of the level of fundamental knowledge

Positive grades: from 18 to 30. Cum laude can be bestowed to outstanding performanc

Showing the capacity to find the answer to operational questions

G. Vilella, Being European, Nomos Verlag, Baden Baden, 2017.
All the other texts will be provided during the course-lessons and will be composed by original documents, resolutions, reports with in addition some essays: the course will be based on concrete real documents.

Per i non frequentanti:
- G. Vilella, Being European, Nomos Verlag, Baden Baden, 2017.
- Ewan Kirk, EU LAW, Law Express, 2014
- D. Chalmers, G. Davies, G. Monti, European union law: cases and materials, Cambridge University Press, 2014 – cap. 3; cap 9.