Dr M Wilkinson, NAB 6.28. Also taught by Professor D Chalmers, Dr C Kilpatrick, Dr Jo Murkens, Dr V Heyvaert and Mr J Bomhoff.

This course is optional for 2nd or 3rd year LLB students, BA Anthropology and Law and BSc Management. It is also available as an outside option where regulations permit and with the permission of the course teacher.

Evolution of the European Union. Institutions and Legislative Procedures of the European Union. Interest Representation and the Democratic Deficit within the European Union. Constitutionalism and the EC Legal System.  The Judicial Architecture of the European Union and relations between national courts and the Court of Justice. Enforcement of EC law in the Member States. Judicial review of Community acts. Fundamental Rights.  EU Citizenship. The Economic Constitution and Free Movement of Goods. Free Pursuit of Occupations. The Social Economy and the Freedom to Provide Services.

Two lectures and a class per week.

This depends upon each class teacher, but a minimum of two essays, or equivalent work, per term required. One of the written requirements takes the form of a mock exam at the end of MT.

The core text for this course is Chalmers et. al., EU Law (CUP 2006) + the 2008 Updating Supplement. Alternative textbooks include Weatherill & Beaumont, EU Law (3rd edn; update expected around March 2008); Craig & De Burca, EU Law (4th edn, 2007); Hartley, The Foundations of EC Law (5th edn), 2003; Weiler, The Constitution of Europe (1999); Hix, The Political System of the European Union (1999) In addition, the course uses a broad range of on-line reading material. Students are expected to retrieve and print these materials themselves: there is no course pack. The recommended statute book is Busby & Smith, Core EU Legislation (Palgrave Macmillan), Blackstone’s EC Legislation (OUP) is a good alternative.

One three-hour examination in the ST, containing 10 questions of which four are to be answered.