European Union Law
A.Y. 2024/2025
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
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 CamillaProfessor(s)