European monetary and economic law

The course seeks to provide participants with in-depth knowledge and critical understanding of the institutions, rules and principles of the European monetary and economic-financial system, as well as of key legal and policy issues arising from the phenomenon of economic and financial globalization of the World, above all, in light of the current crisis. The objectives of the European Monetary and Economic Law course are: 1- to study some of the major trends in the legal regime governing interstate relationships in the monetary, economic and financial sectors. 2- to offer a theoretical and practical introduction to the main legal issues arising from the globalization of the world economy and its current crisis. 3- to develop critical skills for objective analysis of European economic legal and policy issues, and of its interactions with other areas of European law; 4- to provide students with the academic skills required to analyze the activities of European governmental and non-governmental organizations and private economic and trade actors in the field of European financial law.

At the end of the course the student, thanks to the analysis of the topics studied during the lectures, will acquire a profitable and general and comprehensive understanding of the subject and its fundamental principles, as well as a method of reasoning suitable to develop, in an autonomous way, more articulated and complex legal questions in the field of the European economic and monetary law.