European Union Law

Code:

D407

Acronym:

DCOMU1

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2004/2005 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
D	139	Official Study Plan - LD	4	-	7	-

Objectives

- As students have not yet received any teaching relative to the European Union, this subject is essentially organised as “EU Constitutional Law”. Thus, in the first place, it aims to teach students of a Member-State about the goals, dynamics of the developing process, basic principles, jurisdiction, bodies, functioning of the European Union and European Communities, the respective legal system and the relations between this and the domestic legal systems and the international legal system.
- Second, and because it is intended that students develop a critical awareness of the political reality that constitutes European integration, there will be a brief description of the various schools and theories which have, since the 1950’s, attempted to characterise this process and set it in a political framework, thereby bridging the gap between Political Science and the Theory of International Relations.

Program

Introduction

PART ONE
ORIGINS AND EVOLUTION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

I – Origins of the European idea

II – The search for European unity

III – From cooperation to integration

IV – The European Constitutional Treaty: a critical presentation

PART TWO
THE EUROPEAN UNION´S
INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM

V – The institutions of the Communities

VI – The specific nature of the European Communities

PART THREE
THE COMMUNITY AND UNION LEGAL SYSTEM

VII – Introduction to the system of legal sources

VIII – The sources of European Union Law

IX – The relation between European Union Law and domestic legal systems

Main Bibliography

I. Books:
- Fausto de Quadros, Direito da União Europeia, Coimbra, Almedina, 2004
- João Mota de Campos/João Luiz Mota de Campos, Manual de Direito Comunitário, 4ª edição, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004 (reference book)
- Maria Luísa Duarte, Direito da União Europeia e das Comunidades Europeias, Volume I, Tomo I, Lisboa, Lex, 2001

- Miguel Gorjão-Henriques, Direito Comunitário - Sumários Desenvolvidos, 2ª edição, Coimbra, Almedina, 2003

II. Documents:

- Comunidades Europeias, Tratado que Estabelece uma Constituição para a Europa, Luxemburgo, Serviço das Publicações Oficiais das Comunidades Europeias, 2005
- José Luís Vilaça e Miguel Gorjão-Henriques, Tratado de Nice, 1ª edição, Coimbra, Almedina, 2001 (reimpressão de 2004)
- Other editions of the institutional treaties of the European Communities and the European Union
- Vários Autores, Carta de Direitos Fundamentais da União Europeia, Coimbra, I. G. Conimbrigae-Coimbra Editora, 2001

Additional reading reference material, including national and foreign works, will be given during the course of classes.

Complementary Bibliography

Outras indicações bibliográficas serão dadas, ao longo da leccionação da cadeira.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The material will be dealt with in a general and abstract way in the theory classes, since only by doing this will it be possible to cover all the chapters proposed, and, in the practical classes, analysis of the material will be complemented by the study of actual cases, jurisprudence from the Law Court, and hypothetical exercises.

Evaluation Type

Eligibility for exams

The marks the student must get have to be equal or higher than 10, in a scale of [0,20] in one of the following hypotheses:
A)Written final examination;
b)Oral final examination

Calculation formula of final grade

Are the marks obtained in the examinations referred in “Frequency Attaining”

Examinations or Special Assignments

NOne

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

General Law and rules enforced in FDUP.

Classification improvement

Is obtained by doing a written or an oral examination