Common Legal Space
Code: 40894 ECTS Credits: 10| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| European Integration | OT | 0 |
Contact
- Name:
- Milagros Orozco Hermoso
- Email:
- milagros.orozco@uab.cat
Teachers
- Miriam Ana Cugat Mauri
- Miguel Gardeņes Santiago
- Carlos Gorriz Lopez
- Rafael Arenas Garcia
- Milagros Orozco Hermoso
- Albert Ferrer Gomez
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
The same requirements demanded to be admitted to the Master degree
Objectives and Contextualisation
- Introduction to the concept of European citizenship, and delve into its content and derived rights. Distinguish between rights derived from citizenship and the legal status and rights of persons without such status.
- To provide the tools to understand the basis of the legal architecture of the European internal market, namely the rules of the freedoms of movement (in particular, the movement of persons and goods, as well as the rights of establishment and the right to provide services) and the EU's policy on market competition.
- Introduction to the foundations and concepts of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: immigration and borders, judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters, and judicial cooperation in civil matters.
- Familiarization with the criteria used by the Court of Justice of the European Union to decide on the compatibility or otherwise of the measures of the Member States with the EU Law on free movement.
- To facilitate that students acquire the necessary tools to work on specific cases related to this subject.
- To train students to be able to deep on the specific topics of the program, for example through the completion of a Master Final Project.
Competences
- Analyse, synthesise, organise and plan projects and assignments related to the area of study.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously
- Identify and resolve conflicts of competence between the EU legal system and national systems (specialisation in Legal Integration ).
- Identify citizens' rights established in the EU legal system and know the legal procedures for their protection (specialisation in Legal Integration).
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Seek out information in the scientific literature using appropriate channels, and use this information to formulate and contextualise a research topic.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse, synthesise, organise and plan projects and assignments related to the area of study.
- Analyse the principles of distribution of competences between the EU and its member states.
- Apply to the different branches of the EU legal system the principles that govern the distribution of competences.
- Assess the effectiveness of the various legal paths available for defending rights.
- Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously
- Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
- Map the various legal paths available for defending the different rights that are recognised in each branch of the EU legal system.
- Seek out information in the scientific literature using appropriate channels, and use this information to formulate and contextualise a research topic.
Content
- From the EEC to the EU. Evolution of integration. Principles and values. The internal market, concept and content. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice.
- Citizenship of the Union. Concept, content and effects. Relationship with nationality. The role of the CJEU in its definition and regulation.
- Free movement of persons in the EU. Citizenship, mobility and right of residence.
- The EU and natural persons who are nationals of third countries: entry, residence and mobility regimes in the EU.
- Fundamental freedoms and the internal market: free movement of goods, freedom to provide services, right of establishment, free movement of workers and free movement of capital.
- Company law in the European Union.
- European Union competition policy.
- Judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters. Judicial cooperation in civil matters
- Conferences or seminars that may be organised during the course.
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| seminars and conferences | 5 | 0.2 | 7, 6 |
| theoretical-practical courses | 45 | 1.8 | 2, 3, 9, 8, 5, 7, 6, 4 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Dissertations, case studies, text comments, solving questions in group | 6 | 0.24 | 1, 5, 7 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| literature search | 178 | 7.12 | 2, 1, 3, 9, 7, 6, 4 |
The educational progress is organized from three different types of activities:
1. Professor directed activities
These activities are developed in the classroom during a semester, within the timetables foreseen for the module and under the direction of the teaching staff. They may be theoretical or practical, but this distinction between theoretical and practical activities is not a rigid division, because both aspects are always integrated in the courses. Although it is not approximate, we can calculate that 75% of the teaching would be devoted to theoretical aspects, and 25% to practical aspects. Attendance to classes is compulsory.
1.1. Theoretical aspects
1.2. Practical aspects:
The practical part of the sessions will be mainly devoted to the analysis of the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the resolution of practical cases, based on the legal provisions and their interpretation by the Court of Justice. Normally, this practical part will be developed orally, although students may also be asked to resolve written practices.
The materials for the practices will be placed in the virtual campus or they will have to be looked for by the students, through the electronic resources and the available data bases, or using the available collections in the library of social sciences of the UAB and in the library of the European Documentation Center, located in the UAB campus.
1.3. Complementary seminars and/or conferences:
In addtition to the courses scheduled, specialized seminars or conferences could be offfered during the course.
2. Supervised activities:
Students are the responsibles for these activities, always supervised and under the direction of their professors. During the couse, three sessions will be devoted to carrying out supervised activities, which will be done in writing, and in principle in the classroom. The result of these activities will be used to decide the evaluation of the module, as will be explained in the corresponding section.These activities may consist of preparing a dissertation, answering questions about theoretical aspects, solving case studies or commenting on a text or document. They may also consist of personal working, following the instructions provided by the teaching staff
Study of the bibliography and materials; Students will have to find the materials required for the preparation of the course and the evaluation tests.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance to seminars | 10% | 5 | 0.2 | 1, 3, 9, 8, 5, 7 |
| First assessable activity | 30% | 3 | 0.12 | 7, 6 |
| Second assessable activity | 30% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 3, 9, 5, 7, 4 |
| Third assessable activity | 30% | 4 | 0.16 | 2, 1, 3, 9, 5, 7 |
The assessment system is continuous assessment, based on activities that each teacher will schedule and inform students of in advance. These activities may consist of oral or written dissertations, group work, reading and commenting on regulatory texts and judgements, multiple-choice tests, debates, etc. Some of these activities may be common to different thematic blocks of the programme.
90% of the module grade will be obtained from the arithmetic mean of the grades obtained in the continuous assessment.
Bibliography
Compulsory bibliography:
Abellán Honrubia, V. y Vilà Costa, B. (dir.); Olesti Rayo, A. (coord..), Lecciones de Derecho comunitario europeo, Barcelona, Ariel, 2011, temas VIII a XI.
Sánchez, V.M. (dir.), Derecho de la Unión Europea, Barcelona, Huygens, 2010 (temas 23 a 26).
Specific bibliography:
Adriano Rafaelli, E. (ed.), Antitrust between EU Law and National Law / Antitrust fra diritto Nazionale e diritto dell’Unione Europea, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2015.
Autores varios, número monográfico de la Revista Aranzadi de Unión Europea(número 10, octubre de 2012) dedicado a la conmemoración de los veinte años del mercado interior europeo.
Baquero Cruz, J., Entre competencia y libre circulación: el Derecho constitucional económico de la Comunidad Europea, Madrid, Civitas, 2002.
Barnard, C., The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, Oxford University Press, 7ª ed., 2022.
Beneyto Pérez, J. Mª (dir.), Tratado de Derecho de la competencia: Unión Europea y España, Barcelona, Bosch, 2ª ed., 2017, 2 volúmenes.
Beneyto, J.M. y Maíllo, J. (dirs.), Corti, J. y Milla, P. (dirs.), Fostering Grouth in Europe. Reinforcing the internal Market, CEU ediciones, 2014.
De Grove-Valdeyron, N., Droit du marché intérieur européen, Paris, LGDJ, 4ª ed, 2014.
Dirección General de Empresa e Industria, Comisión de la UE, Libre circulación de mercancías. Guía para la aplicación de las disposiciones del tratado que rigen la libre circulación de mercancías, Luxemburgo, Oficina de Publicaciones de la Unión Europea,2010.
Dubois, L. y Blumann, C., Droit matériel de l’Union Européenne, Paris, Montchrestien, 7ª ed., 2015.
Fernández Navarrete, D., Fundamentos económicos y políticas de la UE", Madrid, Delta, 2014.
García Cruces, J.A., Tratado de Derecho de la competencia y de la publicidad, tomo I, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2014.
García Murica, J. (dir.), Libertad de circulación y Derecho de protección social en la Unión Europea, Lisboa, Jurvá editorial, 2016.
Gardeñes Santiago, M., “Mercado interior: sobre la noción de medida de efecto equivalente a una restricción cuantitativa. ¿A la tercera va la vencida?”, en L.A. Bourges (coord.), UE: Sociología y Derecho Alimentarios. Estudios Jurídicos en Honor de Luis González Vaqué, Cizur Menor (Navarra), Thomson Reuters / Aranzadi, 2013, págs. 213-226.
Goerlich Peset, J.Mª. (dir.), Libertades económicas, mercado de trabajo y derecho de la competencia. Un estudio de las relaciones entre el ordenamiento laboral y la disciplina de mercado, Madrid, Consejo Económico y Social, 2011.
Górriz López y Arenas García (coord.), Libertad de establecimiento y Derecho europeo de sociedades, Barcelona, Atelier, 2017.
Grynfogel, C., Droit européen de la concurrence, Paris, LGDJ, 2016.
Gutiérrez Velasco, I. (coord.), El Tribunal de Justicia de la UE ante el espejo del Derecho social, Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2017.
Kaupa, C., The Pluralist Character of the European Economic Constitution, Hart Publishing, 2016.
López Escudero, M. y Martín y Pérez de Nanclares, J. (coords.), Derecho comunitario material, Madrid, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Maillo González-Orús, J. (coord.), Tratado de Derecho y políticas de la Unión Europea (tomo VI: mercado único europeo y unión económica y monetaria), Aranzadi, 2013.
Martos García, J.J., "Las exacciones de efecto equivalente a los derechos de aduana en la Unión Europea. Análisis jurisprudencial", en Crónica Tributaria, núm. 144, 2012, pp. 55-87.
Nic Shuibhne, Niamh. EU Citizenship Law. First edition., Oxford University Press, 2023.
Öberg, M.L., The boundaries of the EU internal market: participation without membership, 2020
Oliva, A.M., Leçons de droit matériel de l’Union Européenne, Paris, Ellipses, 2013.
Ortiz Blanco, L. y otros, Manual de Derecho de la Competencia, Madrid, Tecnos, 2008.
Pérez de las Heras, B. El mercado interior europeo. Las libertades económicas: mercancías, personas, servicios y capitales, Universidad de Deusto, 2ª ed., 2008.
Phinnemore, D.: Northern Ireland, a place between'in UK.EU relations? European Foreign Affairs Review 2020, vol. 4 (núm 25) p. 631-650
Reich, N. y otros, Understanding EU Internal Market, Intersentaia, 3ª ed., 2015.
Signes de Mesa, Juan Ignacio; Fernández Torres, Isabel y Fuentes Naharro, Mónica, Derecho de la competencia, Cizur Menor (Navarra), Civitas / Thomson-Reuters,2013.
Velasco San Pedro, Luis Antonio (coord.), Derecho europeo de la competencia (Antitrust e intervenciones públicas), Valladolid, Lex Nova, 2005.
Verschueren, H. (ed.), Residence, Employment and Social Rights of Moibile Persons. On How EU Define Where They Belong, Intersentia, 2016.
Vogel, L., European Competition Law, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2015.
Vogel, L., Traité dedroit économique. Tome 1: Droit de la concurrente – droits européen et français, Bruxelles, Bruylant,2015.
Vogel, L., Traité de droit économique. Tome 4: Droit européen desaffaires, Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2015.
Revistas especializadas
Cahiers de Droit Européen
Civitas. Revista Española de Derecho Europeo
Common Market Law Review
Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto
European Law Review
Gaceta Jurídica de la Unión Europea y de la Competencia
Europe
Noticias de la Unión Europea (anteriormente Noticias CEE)
Revista Aranzadi de Unión Europea
Revista de Derecho Comunitario Europeo (anteriormente Revista de Instituciones Europeas)
Revista de Derecho de la Unión Europea
Revista de Estudios Europeos
Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales
Revista Española de Derecho Europeo
Revista General de Derecho Europeo (portal jurídico “iustel”, en http://www.iustel.com)
Revista Jurídica La Ley (suplemento “Unión Europea”, de aparición mensual)
Revue du Droit de l’Union Européenne (anteriormente Revue du Marché Unique Européen)
Revue du Marché Commun et de l’Union Européenne (anteriormente Revue du Marché Commun)
Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Européen
Sitios de Internet de interés
- Unión Europea: http://www.europa.eu/
- Web sobre temas diversos relativos a la UE: europa.eu/european-union/topics_es.htm
Software
Sitios de Internet de interés
- Unión Europea: http://www.europa.eu/
- Web sobre temas diversos relativos a la UE: europa.eu/european-union/topics_es.htm
Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
| Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (TEm) Theory (master) | 1 | Spanish | second semester | afternoon |