UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO  Facoltà di Giurisprudenza

Vermont Law School – Trento Law School – Crash course

The (Emerging) Constitutional Law of the European Union

January-March 2001

Part I – History and Institutions(3 hours)

üThe Process of European Integration – From the EEC to the EC to the EU

üPolicies of the EU and the Monetary Union

üInstitutional Structure – Overview

üThe Sources of EC-Law

üThe European Court of Justice: "Motor of Integration"

Part II – Supremacy of EC-Law(5 hours)

üThe Legal Nature of European Law: its (inter-)relations with the Legal Systems of the Member States

üSupremacy of EC-Law and its Guarantees in the Constitutions of the Member States

üNational and European Case-Law

Part III – The Constitution-making Process of the European Union(4 hours)

üBasic Freedoms of the Treaties and the Protection of Human Rights

üThe Charter of Fundamental Rights: A European Bill of Rights?

üCitizenship of the European Union

üPrinciple of Subsidiarity

üLoss of Constitutional Sovereignty of the Member States?

üThe Future: Further Enlargements and/or Deeper Integration?

9-11 am (room 4) and 2-4 pm (room 5)

9.30 am (seminar room)

The Environmental Law of the European Community(10 am-1 pm, seminar room)

Nicola Lugaresi

A Common European Action Against Crime (3-5 pm, room 6)

Ernesto Savona

Luisa Antoniolli

Towards a European Civil Code?(3-5 pm, room 6)

Andrea Pradi

Concluding Discussion– The (Emerging) Constitutional Law of The European Union(5-6 pm, room 6)

Roberto Toniatti and Francesco Palermo