76035 European Union Law (UG)

The topics to be discussed in this subject include the activities of the European institutions; the political and economic origins of the EU and its institutional structures (with emphasis on the European Court of Justice); the interrelationship between community law and the law of the fifteen member States; and the free movement of goods, workers, capital and services. The subject concentrates on the emerging transnational protection of social and economic rights and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice.

Texts and references

Green, N, Hartley, T C & Usher, J A, The Legal Foundations of the Single European Market, Oxford University Press, 1992

Bronitt, S, Burns, F R & Kinley, D, Principles of European Community Law: Commentary and Materials, Sydney, Law Book Company, 1995

Hartley, T C, The Foundations of European Community Law, 3rd edn, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1994