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Semester 2

European Union Law (Ordinary) A (LAWS08125)

Subject

Law

College

CAHSS

Credits

10

Normal Year Taken

1

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

This course is only open to visiting students who are nominated to study with us on a Law exchange agreement. Exchange students outside of Law and study abroad students are not eligible to enrol on this course, with no exceptions. Semester 2 Law exchange students who wish to take this course must have previously completed a course equivalent to Scottish Legal System (LAWS08128). **Please see Additional Restrictions**

Course Summary

The course aims to impart: (a) a knowledge and understanding of the law of the European Union, principally its procedural and substantive law; sensitivity throughout to its transnational and polyglot nature and culture; (b) an understanding of the place and application of EU law within the legal systems in Scotland and the UK, including in the framework of Brexit; the adaptation of Scots remedies and procedures to the requirements of EU law, from, in part, a comparative perspective; (c) an ability to find easily and use comfortably the primary (the Treaties) and secondary (droit dérivé) sources of EU law, and to understand the relationship between them; greater library and IT skills in relation to the European materials and its specialised sources; (d) an understanding of the jurisdiction and methods of the EU judicature; (e) a basic knowledge of the economics of the internal market and the historical development of its creation within the EC/EU; (f) a solid knowledge of the law of the internal market; its universal principles; its detailed application as it applies to goods, persons (including JLS and Schengen), services and capital; (g) an understanding of the sources and application of the general principles of EU law, particularly the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; (h) a basic familiarity with the law of the Union's agricultural, monetary, social and commercial policies; (i) an ability to use problem-solving and diagnostic techniques in the application of legal principles to the solution of EU legal problems at both macro (pan-European) and micro (Scottish) levels.

Course Description

Assessment Information

Written Exam 100%, Coursework 0%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Full Year Law exchange students who wish to enrol in this course must also enrol in both Scottish Legal System (LAWS08128) in Semester 1 and Public Law of the UK & Scotland (LAWS08123) in Semester 2. **This course is only open to visiting students who are nominated to study with us on a Law exchange agreement. Exchange students outside of Law and study abroad students are not eligible to enrol on this course, with no exceptions.

Related Courses

Scottish Legal System Public Law of the UK and Scotland