EI501 PRINCIPLES OF EU LAW AND CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES
| Course Code: | 8380501 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3(3-0) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | European Integration |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Masters |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. SANEM SUPHÝYE BAYKAL |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Content
This Course aims at providing an overview to the legal principles of the European Union (EU) which also would give the students a sound basis for other EU Law related studies.As a law related course, it comprises of discussions in certain essential matters regarding the constitutive documents of the EU since the Rome Treaty, the legal principles such as supremacy and direct applicability of European Law.
Since the EU regime is defined as a legal system and in fact it creates one, the sources of the European Legal System and sine qua non of the single market namely the free movement principles, free movement of goods, workers, services and capital and the non discrimination principle to be complied with in the enforcement of such freedoms and the relevant decisions of the European Courts on such matters are also among the issues to be covered.As EU Law has evolved on the basis of the case law of the EU courts there will be specific emphasis on the structure, functioning and the impact of the European Courts on the European integration. In that regard the future of the judicial organs in the EU will also be discussed in the light of the recent changes in the EU such as –despite the vagueness in its future- the Constitution and the impact of the new comers in the EU.
Legal texts which constitute the framework of Turkey-EU relations, including but not limited to the Association Agreement, Additional Protocol and the Association Council Decisions will also form the subject of further discussions.