European Union LawSyllabus

Part-I

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Origins

Chapter 3 Legislative InstitutionsThe CommissionThe CouncilThe European Parliament

Chapter 4 Legislative PowersTypes of Community actsLegislative proceduresThe problem of legal basis

Part II International Adjudication

Chapter 5 Institutions: an overviewThe International Court of JusticeThe World Trade Organization, The European UnionThe NAFTA

Part III Relations Between Legal Systems: International Law,

Community Law and National Law

Chapter 6 The role of international lawInternational lawInternational organizationsCommunity lawInternational law and national law

Chapter 7 The Community Treaties in the legal systems of the Member StatesCommunity Law

Chapter 8 The direct effect of directivesThe European Court makes its moveFrance rebelsThe European Court offers a compromiseIndirect effectA reconsideration

Part IV Fundamental Rights

Chapter 9 The human-rights revolution

Characteristics of human rightsWhere do human rights come from?Fundamental rights in the United StatesFundamental rights in GermanyThe European Convention on Human Rights

Chapter 10 The European Court and the BundesverfassungsgerichtThe origin of the EC fundamental-rights doctrineDevelopment of the new doctrineLater developments

Chapter 11 The Human Rights Convention and the EU: a clash of two systems?Conflicting treaties in international lawThe Community Treaties and the Human Rights

Part VSubstantive Law – A Taste

Chapter 12 The common market - IThe customs unionCustoms dutiesTaxes on importsQuantitative restrictions