LAW 6661 - Constitutional Law of the European Union

Fall or Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

M. Lasser.

This course introduces students to the law and institutions of the European Union. It examines the composition, organization, functions and powers of the Union’s governing bodies; analyzes the Union’s governing treaties and constitutional law; and studies the Union’s decision-making processes. The course also explores broader questions of political, economic and legal integration, such as the proper relation between the Union’s law and the domestic law of the Union’s Member states, and the desirability and feasibility of using the E.U. as a model on which to pattern other transnational agreements.