European Union Law | Università degli Studi di Milano Statale

A.Y. 2024/2025

Max ECTS

Overall hours

SSD

IUS/14

Language

English

Included in the following degree programmes

Valorization and Sustainable Development of Mountain Areas (Classe LM-73)-Enrolled from 2022/23 Academic Year

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide students with the basics of European Union law, especially its institutional part, and to provide knowledge on European Union policies that have a direct impact on mountain areas, namely environmental policy, common agricultural policy and cohesion policy. The course also aims to provide an overview of the regulatory framework, the strategies and the intervention programs that, at European and international level, have been adopted to protect and promote the development of mountain areas, providing tools to critically assess such measures.

Expected learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students must have developed their own judgement and be able to critically assess and analyse European and international measures in favour of mountain areas. Students will be also able to properly apply knowledge regarding the legal-legislative framework of mountain territories - dispositions, strategies and intervention programs relating to the sustainable development of these territories derive - to actions and projects for sustainable development, providing technical support for the management of the complexity of these areas.

Lesson period: Second semester

Lessons timetable

Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi

Exams calendar

Single course

This course can be attended as a single course.

Take a single course

Course syllabus and organization

Single session

Responsible

Burelli Camilla

Lesson period

Second semester

Syllabus
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Course structure

Course syllabus

The program will be divided into three modules.

The first module will be aimed at providing an in-depth knowledge of the institutional structure of the European Union. In particular, the following topics will be analyzed: European Union and European Community; the evolution of the European Union system (from the founding treaties to the Lisbon Treaty); principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality; competences of the European Union; institutions, bodies and agencies (in particular, the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, the Court of Justice of the European Union); protection of fundamental rights.

The second module will be dedicated to the study of the sources of European Union law and the relationship with domestic law and will focus on the following topics: hierarchy of sources; European Union acts (typology, characteristics and effects), relations between legal systems and the transposition of EU law into the Italian legal system.

The third module will be dedicated to the study of more specific issues related to mountain areas. After an initial analysis of the European Union's policies that most directly affect mountain areas, namely environmental policy, common agricultural policy and cohesion policy, the module will focus on the main measures and the main legal acts that, at European and international level, have been adopted to protect and promote these territories.

For students affected by Learning Specific Disorders (DSA) follow the rules provided by the University (https//www.divas.unimi.it/extfiles/unimidire/256101/attachment/attachment/linee-guide-studenti-dsa.pdf).

Prerequisites for admission

N.A.

Teaching methods

The course will be taught mostly through lectures; they offer a complete picture of the topics above listed; attendance allows the development of the notions and competences required to pass the

exam. The teaching material indicated by the Professor for the deepening of the topics covered in class will be directly transmitted to the students.

Some of the lectures could be taken by scholars, lawyers, experts.

Lectures may be supplemented by seminars and case studies, whose organisation will be reported to the students, so that they can participate.

Attendance of the course is optional, although recommended.

Teaching Resources

Both for attending students and for those who do not attend lectures, the materials for the exam are the following:

1. the manual: R. BARATTA, Institutions of EU Law, Padua, 2022;

2. for the texts of the treaties and relevant secondary legislation: N. FOSTER, EU Treaties & Legislation 2021-2022, Oxford, 2021;

3. for the third module specific materials will be indicated during lecture.

Assessment methods and Criteria

The final examination will be oral (both for students who attended the course and for those who did not), and the grade will be expressed in thirtieths (/30), with the possibility of attributing honors. The criteria for assessing the oral exam include the correctness of the contents, the clarity of the argumentations put forward, the ability to provide a critical analysis and to work with principles and notions.

There is a pre-examination ("preappello"), which follows the same assessing criteria, which consists of a presentation on a topic chosen by the student (and approved by the Professor) and 1-2 questions on the program.

IUS/14 - EUROPEAN UNION LAW - University credits: 6

Lessons: 48 hours

Professor: Burelli Camilla

Shifts:

Turno

Professor: Burelli Camilla

Professor(s)

Burelli Camilla

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