Undergraduate Course: European Union Law (Ordinary) A (LAWS08125)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Law |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course aims to impart
(a) a knowledge and understanding of the law of the European Union, principally its procedural and substantive law; sensitivity throughout to its transnational and polyglot nature and culture;
(b) an understanding of the place and application of EU law within the legal systems in Scotland and the UK; the adaptation of Scots remedies and procedures to the requirements of EU law, from, in part, a comparative perspective;
(c) an ability to find easily and use comfortably the primary (the Treaties) and secondary (droit dérivé) sources of EU law, and to understand the relationship between them; greater library and IT skills in relation to the European materials and its specialised sources;
(d) an understanding of the jurisdiction and methods of the EU judicature;
(e) a basic knowledge of the economics of the internal market and the historical development of its creation within the EC/EU;
(f) a solid knowledge of the law of the internal market; its universal principles; its detailed application as it applies to goods, persons (including JLS and Schengen), services and capital;
(g) an understanding of the sources and application of the general principles of EU law, particularly the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
(h) a basic familiarity with the law of the Union¿s agricultural, monetary, social and commercial policies
(i) an ability to use problem-solving and diagnostic techniques in the application of legal principles to the solution of EU legal problems at both macro (pan-European) and micro (Scottish) levels. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only open to visiting students coming through a direct exchange with the School of Law (this includes Erasmus students on a Law Exchange). |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should be able to demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of the following topics in EU law:
- The constitutional nature of EU law in the UK
- The judicial architecture and methods of the European Court of Justice
- The jurisdiction of the Court of Justice: enforcement of member state obligations; judicial review; exception d'illegalité; the Union¿s non-contractual liability; appeals; references for preliminary rulings
- The common/internal markets;
- Goods: customs union; common customs tariff; Community customs code; tariff barriers; fiscal barriers; quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect; Dassonville, Cassis de Dijon and Keck & Mithouard
- Citizens¿ Rights Directive
- Workers, establishment and services
- Public policy; public service employment; official authority
- Imperative reasons in the public interest
- Rights of citizenship of the Union
- Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; Schengen
- Capital
- General principles of EU law: the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; the place of the European Convention in EU law
- Familiarity with the Union¿s agricultural, monetary, social (especially sex discrimination) and external commercial policies |
Assessment Information
| 100% exam |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- recognise, analyse and rank arguments and evidence in terms of relevance
and importance by:
- managing volume of legal sources and select key material to construct written or oral answers to a problem.
- identifying the legal problem from information provided.
- addressing problems by reference to relevant material.
- bringing together and integrating information and materials from a variety of different sources.
- acknowledging ranking of sources and relative impact in context.
- application of the law and problem-solving in a legal context.
- presenting arguments for and against propositions.
- be aware that arguments require to be supported by evidence, in order to meet legal requirements of proof by showing awareness of the need for evidence to support arguments
- apply knowledge and analysis
- in a legal context
- creatively to complex situations in order to provide arguable solutions to concrete problems by presenting a range of viable options from a set of facts and law.
- think critically and make critical judgments on the relative and absolute merits of particular arguments and solutions
- act independently in planning and undertaking tasks in areas of law which he or she has already studied
- reflect on his or her own learning, and to seek and make use of feedback |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
2 lectures a week, 6 tutorials |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Robert Lane
Tel: (0131 6)50 2039
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Krystal Hanley
Tel: (0131 6)50 2056
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