Learning and teaching methods
• Lectures with active participation of students,
• seminars,
• tutorial,
• individual research work,
• essays and discussions,
• dealing with concrete problems, topical issues, relevant cases.
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
On completion of this course the student will be able to:
• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the system of judicial protection in the EU and within the framework of the European Court of Human Rights,
• demonstrate understanding of the interactions between European courts and national judicial protection,
• delineate and critically analyze the jurisdiction of European courts and their methods of interpretation,
• demonstrate understanding of the influence of fundamental rights and human rights on the application and interpretation of national law,
• use the acquired knowledge of the procedures in practice,
• find, understand and apply the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights to concrete cases and in decision-making.
Readings
Obvezna / Mandatory
Adams M, de Waele H, Meeusen J and Straetmans G (eds), Judging Europe’s judges. The legitimacy of the case law of the European Court of Justice (Hart Publishing 2015)
Arnull A, The European Union and its Court of Justice (OUP 2006)
——, ‘The Principle of Effective Judicial Protection in EU law: an Unruly Horse?’ (2011) 36 ELRev 51
——, ‘Judicial Review in the European Union’ in Arnull & Chalmers (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (OUP 2015)
Claes M, 'Luxembourg, here we come? Constitutional courts and the preliminary reference procedure’ (2015) 16(6) GLJ 1331
Conway G, The Limits of Legal Reasoning and the European Court of Justice (CUP 2012)
Craig P P and de Bu´rca G, EU Law. Text, cases and materials (OUP, 6th ed, 2015)
de Bu´rca G, ‘After the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: the Court of Justice as a human rights adjudicator?’ (2013) 20(2) MJ 168
Harris D, O'Boyle M, Bates E, and Buckley C, Law of the European Convention on Human Rights (OUP 2018)
Lacchi C, ‘Multilevel Judicial Protection in the EU and Preliminary References’ (2016) 53 CMLRev 3 679-708
Leczykiewicz D, ‘Effectiveness of EU Law before National Courts: Direct Effect, Effective Judicial Protection and State Liability’ in Arnull & Chalmers (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (OUP 2015)
Lenaerts K, Maselis I, Gutman K, Ed. Tomasz Nowak J, EU Procedural Law (OUP 2014)
Lock T, ‘Is Private Enforcement of EU Law through State liability a Myth? An Assessment 20 years after Francovich’ (2012) 49 CMLRev 1675
O’Leary S, ‘A Tale of Two Cities: Fundamental Rights Protection in Strasbourg and Luxembourg’ (2018) Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies https://doi.org/10.1017/cel.2018.3
Tridimas T, The General Principles of EC Law (OUP 2006)
Trstenjak V and Brkan M, Pravo EU: Ustavno, procesno in gospodarsko pravo EU (GV Založba 2012)
Weingerl P, ‘Sodišče EU kot motor evropeizacije zasebnega prava: ignorantia iuris Europae nocet’ (2014) 33 Pravna praksa II
——, ‘Nov kamenček v mozaiku odnosov med Sodiščem EU in nacionalnimi sodišči’ (2018) 37 Pravna praksa 41/42 27
—— in Hojnik J, ‘Reforma sodnega sistema EU: reševanje kvalitativnih težav s kvantitativnim pristopom?’ (2016) 35 Pravna praksa 2 12-14
Izbirna / optional
Albors-Llorens A, ‘Judicial protection before the Court of Justice of the European Union’ in Barnard C, and Peers S, European Union Law (OUP 2014)
Avbelj M, Sodno pravo Evropske unije (GV Založba 2011)
——, and Koma´rek, J (eds), Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond (Hart Publishing 2012)
Bobek M, 'Landtova´, Holubec, and the problem of an uncooperative court: implications for the preliminary ruling procedure' (2014) 10 EuConst 54
de Bu´rca G, ‘The European Court of Justice and the international legal order after Kadi’ (2010)
51(1) Harvard International Law Journal 1
Douglas-Scott S, ‘A tale of two courts: Luxembourg, Strasbourg and the growing European human rights acquis’ (2006) CMLRev 3 629-665
Frantziou E, ‘The Horizontal Effect of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU: Rediscovering the Reasons for Horizontality’ (2015) 21 European Law Journal 5 657–679
Lenaerts K, and Gutie´rez-Fons A J, ‘The constitutional allocation of powers and general principles of EU law’ (2010) 47(6) CMLRev 1629
Peers S, and Costa M, ‘Judicial review of EU acts after the Treaty of Lisbon’ (2012) 8 E.C.L. Review 1 82-104
Schűtze R, European Constitutional Law (CUP 2015)
Wahl N, and Prete L, ‘The gatekeepers of Article 267 TFEU: On jurisdiction and admissibility of references for preliminary rulings’ (2018) 55 CMLRev 2 511-547
Weatherill S, Law and Values in the European Union (OUP 2016)
