General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | European Union Law |
Language | English |
Module lecturer | dr Miłosz Malaga |
Lecturer's email | mm624@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | Assistant Professor / adiunkt |
Faculty | Faculty of Law and Administration |
Semester | 2025/2026 (winter) |
Duration | 30 |
ECTS | 8 |
USOS code | 10-EUL-w-Erasm |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
The main objective of the course is to provide participants with understanding of European Union Law: the basic assumptions, structure, relationship with Member States' national legal systems, impact on individual's legal status and judicial protection EU law offers to these individuals. The second part of the course includes introduction to EU substantive law and discusses rights and obligations conferred on individuals and Member States by European Union Law.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
It is recommended (though not obligatory) that students complete an international public law module and constitutional law module.
Syllabus
Week 1: EU's institutional and legal framework. The division of competence between EU and Member States
Week 2: European Union's values, aims and principles
Week 3: Sources of EU Law
Week 4: Principles: direct effect
Week 5: Principles: primacy
Week 6: Member State's liability
Week 7: Preliminary rulings
Week 8: Member States' failure to fulfil obligations under the Treaties
Week 9: Action for annulment of EU secondary law
Week 10: EU Citizenship and the principle of non-discrimination
Week 11: Free movement of goods
Week 12: Freedom of establishment and to provide services
Week 13: Free movement of workers
Week 14: Free movement of capital and payments
Week 15: Selected issues of internal market
Reading list
P. Craig, G. De Burca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Oxford University Press
K. Lenaerts, P. Van Nuffel, European Union Law, Sweet & Maxwell
C. Barnard, The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, Oxford University Press