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Optional Law subject.
Prerequisite: Torts and the Process of Law; History and Philosophy of Law. It would be advantageous for students to undertake Introduction to European Civil Law.
Contact: Two hours per week
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students completing this subject should be able to: have a basic understanding of the law of the European Union; appreciate why the EEC was set up, how it functions, and how it has influenced the legal order both within the member states and beyond; have considered the interaction between supra-national and national law against the federal Australian backdrop.
Content:
The origins and objectives of the European Union: the European Coal and Steel Community, the European Economic Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community; the basic principles of the European Community Treaties. The Institutional Structure of the Union: the composition of the various Community bodies: the Council of the European Union, the Commission, the European Parliament; the European Union Court of Justice; and various auxiliary bodies; the inter-action between these institutions in the law-making process of the Union. The formal sources of Union Law: the role of the Treaty in its relation to the tradition of code-based law in the six founding members of the Union. Issues of Implementation and enforcement: actions before and the procedure in the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance. Substantive Union Law: the Four Freedoms: free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. Selective Issues. External Relations of the Union: the relationship between the Union and GATT; the relationship between the Union and EFTA; relations with Australia. The future of the Union.
Assessment:
Either a Research Assignment 4,000 words (60 per cent) and Final Exam 11/2 hours (40 per cent) or Final Exam 3 hours (100 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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