Undergraduate Course: European Union Law (Ordinary) A (LAWS08125)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | The course aims to impart
(a) a knowledge and understanding of the law of the European Union, principally its procedural and substantive law; sensitivity throughout to its transnational and polyglot nature and culture;
(b) an understanding of the place and application of EU law within the national legal systems
(c) an ability to find easily and use comfortably the primary (the Treaties) and secondary (droit dérivé) sources of EU law, and to understand the relationship between them; greater library and IT skills in relation to the European materials and its specialised sources;
(d) an understanding of the jurisdiction and methods of the EU judicature;
(e) a basic knowledge of the economics of the internal market and the historical development of its creation within the EC/EU;
(f) a solid knowledge of the law of the internal market; its universal principles; its detailed application as it applies to goods, persons, services and capital;
(g) an understanding of the sources and application of the general principles of EU law, particularly the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
(h) a basic familiarity with the law of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the law of the EU¿s external relations (including common commercial policy)
(i) an understanding of the law of accession and withdrawal of states to and from the Union, including the withdrawal of the UK.
(j) an ability to use problem-solving and diagnostic techniques in the application of legal principles to the solution of EU legal problems |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | This course is only open to visiting students coming through a direct exchange with the School of Law (including Erasmus students on a Law-specific Exchange). Exchange students outside of Law and independent study abroad students are not eligible to enrol in this course, with no exceptions. Students must also take Global Law (LAWS08144), or Scottish Legal System (LAWS08128) and Public Law of the UK and Scotland (LAWS08123) |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 7,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
67 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
100 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% exam in May diet |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 00 | | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course, students should be able to demonstrate a full knowledge and understanding of the following topics in EU law:
- - The constitutional nature of EU law; - The judicial architecture and methods of the European Court of Justice; - The jurisdiction of the Court of Justice: enforcement of Member State obligations; judicial review; exception d'illegalité; appeals; references for preliminary rulings
- - The common/internal markets; - goods: customs union; common customs tariff; customs code; tariff barriers; fiscal barriers; quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect; Dassonville, Cassis de Dijon and Keck & Mithouard; - Citizens¿ Rights Directive; - Workers, establishment and services; - Public policy; public service employment; official authority
- - Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; Schengen; - General principles of EU law: the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; the place of the European Convention in EU law; - Familiarity with Union law in the area of external relations (including the common commercial policy); accession to and withdrawal from the Union.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- recognise, analyse and rank arguments and evidence in terms of relevance
and importance by:
- managing volume of legal sources and select key material to construct written or oral answers to a problem.
- identifying the legal problem from information provided.
- addressing problems by reference to relevant material.
- bringing together and integrating information and materials from a variety of different sources.
- acknowledging ranking of sources and relative impact in context.
- application of the law and problem-solving in a legal context.
- presenting arguments for and against propositions.
- be aware that arguments require to be supported by evidence, in order to meet legal requirements of proof by showing awareness of the need for evidence to support arguments
- apply knowledge and analysis
- in a legal context
- creatively to complex situations in order to provide arguable solutions to concrete problems by presenting a range of viable options from a set of facts and law.
- think critically and make critical judgments on the relative and absolute merits of particular arguments and solutions
- act independently in planning and undertaking tasks in areas of law which he or she has already studied
- reflect on his or her own learning, and to seek and make use of feedback |
| Keywords | EU Law A |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Stephen Coutts
Tel:
Email: scoutts@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Amy Purves
Tel:
Email: apurves2@ed.ac.uk |
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