Unit information: Law and Policy of the European Union I in 2010/11

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Unit name Law and Policy of the European Union I
Unit code LAWD20023
Credit points 20
Level of study I/5
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24)
Unit director Professor. Koutrakos
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

Constitutional Rights and Law and State

Co-requisites

None

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; the institutional structure and the law and decision making processes of the EU; the nature of Union law; the EU legal order; the relationship between EU and national laws; the role and jurisdiction of the Court of Justice; the protection of human rights in Union law.