2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

IUS/14 (DIRITTO DELL'UNIONE EUROPEA)

DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE POLITICHE E SOCIALI

WORLD POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (POLITICA NEL MONDO E RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI)

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

Primo Semestre (03/10/2016 - 17/12/2016)

6

40 ore di attività frontale

ENGLISH

ORALE

GROMEK KATARZYNA JOANNA (titolare) - 6 CFU

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The first module will examine and compare the legal/institutional settings of systems of regional integration such as the European Union, Mercosur and the Andean Community of Nations, the Northern American Free Trade Association, as well as, possibly, the Council of Europe, the Organisation of American States, and the African Union. Such an approach will allow students to better understand the differences between ‘deep integration’ and other forms of integration (‘thin integration’ or ‘hollow integration’).

Two major issues will be addressed: (i) why ‘copy-pasting’ the legal/institutional setting of a system of deep integration does not work; and (ii) how adequation between the type of integration that is pursued and the legal/institutional setting can be achieved, or at least sought.

The course will be based upon case studies. Previous legal education is not a requirement; students will be trained in understanding and commenting upon relevant legal documents: treaties, decisions directives, regulations and other binding documents issued by regional organisations, as well as court rulings.

As a first approach to the issues that will be examined, students are invited to read: Jacques Ziller, ‘The Challenge of Governance in Regional Integration – Key Experiences from Europe’, EUI Working papers Law n° 2005/11 (accessible on-line in the electronic reserved area 'Area riservata').

For students who wish to deepen their background knowledge of international law and of the legal and public-policy aspects of European integration, the following books are recommended:

1. Antonio CASSESE, International law, Oxford University Press, Oxford-New York, second edition, 2005;

2. Neil NUGENT, The Government and Politics of the European Union, 7th Edition, Palgrave-McMillan, 2010, pp. 1-50.

3. Robert SCHÜTZE, European Constitutional Law, Cambridge University press, 2012.

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This course comprises two modules (6 credits each), the first on law of regional integration, the second on politics of legal integration. The teaching of the modules will be coordinated so as to concentrate on the same cases of regional integration from different but complementary disciplinary perspectives.