Unit information: Law and Policy of the European Union I in 2009/10

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Unit name Law and Policy of the European Union I
Unit code LAWD30127
Credit points 20
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Professor. Syrpis
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

LAWD10012 Law and State, LAWD10013 Constitutional Rights.

School/department University of Bristol Law School
Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law

Description including Unit Aims

The unit will consider the following issues: the recent history and development of European integration: the nature and objectives of the EU and the EC; the institutional structure and the law and decision making processes of the EC; the nature of Community law; the legal order of the EC; the relationship between EC and national laws; the role and jurisdiction of the Court of Justice; the protection of human rights in Community law.