Suspended in 2025/26
LL229      Half Unit
Law of the European Market

This information is for the 2025/26 session.

Course Convenor

Dr Jan Zglinski

Availability

This course is available on the Erasmus Reciprocal Programme of Study, Exchange Programme for Students from University of California, Berkeley and LLB in Laws. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available with permission to General Course students.

Course content

The EU’s internal market is the biggest in the world in terms of GDP. It is also one of the most powerful legal systems in the world, with a global regulatory influence on a variety of matters. It covers technical areas such as financial services, and more practical questions such as the sale of alcoholic products. Understanding the EU’s market is understanding not just how the EU’s economy is structured, but how economic goals interact with social, cultural, and other normative concerns.

This course takes you through the institutional configuration of the EU’s internal market, highlighting how judicial power and legislative power intersect. It focuses on some of the most contentious and high-profile aspects of the internal market, including the corporate, financial, and digital market. Finally, it reflects on the interaction between the EU’s market and the UK and global markets.

Teaching and learning activities will include lecture elements as well as facilitated synchronous discussions, problem solving, and peer-to-peer elements such as small-group work. The module will follow the Universal Design for Learning philosophy to create an inclusive learning environment. Adjustments will be made for students with disabilities and learning difficulties. Slides and class questions will be posted in advance. The topics and readings will consider diverse views and voices.

Topics:

  • The Structure of the Internal Market: Judicial and Legislative
  • Trade Barriers and Defences
  • The Corporate Market
  • The Social Market
  • The Digital Market
  • The Financial Market
  • Global Markets and UK-EU Trade

Teaching

2 hours of seminars in the Spring Term.
20 hours of seminars in the Winter Term.

Formative assessment

1,500 word essay.

 

Indicative reading

  • Bradford, The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World (OUP 2020)
  • Egan, Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States (OUP 2014)
  • Dunne, ‘Liberalisation and the Pursuit of the Internal Market’ (2018) 34 European Law Review 803
  • Snell, ‘The Internal Market and the Philosophies of Market Integration’ in Peers and Barnard (eds.), European Union Law (3rd ed, OUP 2020) 334
  • Sadl, López Zurita and Piccolo, ‘Route 66: Mutations of the Internal Market Explored Through the Prism of Citation Networks’ (2023) 21 International Journal of Constitutional Law 826
  • Ashiagbor, ‘Unravelling the Embedded Liberal Bargain: Labour and Social Welfare Law in the Context of EU Market Integration’ (2013) 19 European Law Journal 303
  • Havelková, ‘Women on Company Boards: Equality Meets Subsidiarity’ (2019) 21 Cambridge Journal of European Legal Studies 187
  • De Gregorio, ‘The Rise of Digital Constitutionalism in the European Union’ (2021) 19 International Journal of Constitutional Law 41
  • Zglinski, 'The UK Internal Market: A Global Outlier?' (2023) 82 Cambridge Law Journal 350.

Assessment

Exam (100%), duration: 150 Minutes in the Spring exam period


Key facts

Department: LSE Law School

Course Study Period: Winter and Spring Term

Unit value: Half unit

FHEQ Level: Level 5

CEFR Level: Null

Total students 2024/25: 8

Average class size 2024/25: 8

Capped 2024/25: No
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Personal development skills

  • Self-management
  • Team working
  • Problem solving
  • Communication
  • Commercial awareness
  • Specialist skills