Dr Jan Komarek, COW 1.04.

For the LLM (Specialisms: Legal Theory, Public Law, Human Rights Law), European Law. The course is also available as an outside option where regulations permit and with the permission of the teacher responsible for the course.

This course is capped at 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

The course will build on knowledge students have acquired from having taken EU law courses at undergraduate level. It provides a detailed and sophisticated knowledge of the legal issues surrounding the central issues in the EU today. This is done from a variety of perspectives by a number of people who have made a significant impact on the field. The course is divided into two terms and two parts.

- The first part deals with the EU as an emerging block on the international scene, and considers the EU's relationships with national and international law, as well as constitutional matters through case studies and theoretical literature. Significant attention will be given to European judicial process - not only formal procedures, but its role in the political system of the EU and its influence on domestic systems.

- The second part looks at the relationship between the EU and its peoples in substantive legal terms: citizenship, immigration, minorities, asylum.
The course will develop your understanding and use of many general theoretical explanations surrounding these debates and locate debates in their practical setting. It uses the LSE Law Department's expertise in external relations, constitutional theory, administrative law, and EU policy for a rich and varied study of central and contemporary challenges. The Public Law part will cover the hierarchy of norms, the competing roles of national and European courts, and the role of human rights. The second term will explore links between immigration and the EU, questions of European identity, the relationship between universalist and communitarian values, and also look at the EU's policing powers.

Two-hour seminars weekly.

Students are asked to submit two 2,000 word essays.

D Chalmers, European Union Law (2006, CUP); E. Guild, The Legal Elements of European Identity (Kluwer, 2004); Kostakopoulou, Citizenship, Identity and Immigration in the European Union (2001); Balibar, We, the Peoples of Europe? (2004); Loader & Walker, Civilising Security (2007)

Three-hour unseen examination.