Prof. Lorenzo Cecchetti

Argomenti del programma: The course constitutes the completion of the EU institutional law course, and it is aimed at putting in practice the key issues analyzed in that course. Topics will include, but are not limited to: the judicial avenues and proceedings before both domestic courts and the CJEU; primacy, direct effect, and consistent interpretation and their functioning before domestic courts; the principle of (national) procedural…

• Relevant materials week-by-week will be provided via the e-learning platform.

Argomenti del programma: The course will examine the operation of the EU at the international level, the legal principles governing its external action, the instruments it has available, the techniques it uses and the constraints under which it operates, the latter derived both from its own constitutional framework and from international law.

• The textbook will be supplemented by slides and other reading material indicated at the beginning of the course.

Argomenti del programma: The History of European Integration. The European Union. The EU Institutional architecture. The EU Legal order: Primary law and Legislative acts. The EU General Principles and the Protection of Fundamental Rights. The Enforcement of EU Law in the domestic legal order (Supremacy of EU Law; direct and indirect effects).