Postgraduate Course: Citizenship in Europe (LAWS11472)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | How should European states decide who has access to their national citizenship? What is the added value of citizenship of the European Union? Does Union law prevent statelessness? Should Member States be allowed to sell their passports to wealthy investors? Does human rights law protect terrorists from having their citizenship revoked?
This course explores these and other topical questions, combining elements of citizenship theory, comparative law, European Union law, human rights law, and international law. In so doing, the course provides students with a thorough understanding of the multilevel governance of citizenship in Europe, placing the law in its wider social and political context. |
| Course description |
Provisional seminar outline:
1. Introduction;
2. National citizenship in Europe;
3. European Union citizenship;
4. European citizenship and colonialism;
5. Statelessness;
6. Investor citizenship in the EU;
7. EU citizenship and Brexit;
8. EU citizenship and COVID-19;
9. Citizenship, counter-terrorism, and human rights;
10. Multicultural citizenship;
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 25 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
This course will be assessed by the following components:
1) 4000 word essay (80%)
2) 1000 word blog post (20%)
Both to be submitted at the end of the course.
Requirements for all course assessments will be outlined to students within the individual courses at the start of each semester. |
| Feedback |
Students will be invited to formulate their own research questions for the summative assessment. The formative assignment will involve the submission of draft titles and abstracts, on which they will be given feedback.
Feedback on the formative assessment may be provided in various formats, for example, to include written, oral, video, face-to-face, whole class, or individual. The course organiser will decide which format is most appropriate in relation to the nature of the assessment.
Feedback on both formative and summative in-course assessed work will be provided in time to be of use in subsequent assessments within the course.
Feedback on the summative assessment will be provided in written form via Learn, the University of Edinburgh's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the multi-level governance of citizenship in Europe, including the principal modes of acquisition and loss of citizenship, as well as the interface between citizenship laws, constitutional law, international law and human rights law, in different national and regional contexts;
- Find and contextualise key materials relating to citizenship law at the national and regional/international level; critically evaluate the relevant documents, including constitutions, legislation and case law; engage with complex areas of law and analyse complex arguments on the topic of the course;
- Demonstrate critical analytical skills; comprehension, including prioritization of points in argumentation; writing skills, in particular summarizing information; articulation of opinion as well as justification of that opinion;
- Engage in contemporary debates involving the subject-matter of the course and demonstrate an ability to formulate opinions on complex materials;
- Reflect on the moral and political implications of citizenship across Europe, and develop skills in making arguments about desirable legal arrangements in relation to citizenship and statelessness.
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Reading List
A reading list will be provided in the handout for each seminar. Useful reference works include:
Kostakopoulou, D. and Thym, D. (eds). (2022). Research Handbook on European Union Citizenship Law and Policy. London: Edward Elgar.
Shachar, A., Bauböck, R., Bloemraad, I., Vink, M. (eds). (2017). The Oxford Handbook of Citizenship. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Graduate Attributes: Skills and abilities in Research and Enquiry:
- Develop the ability to engage in inter-disciplinary dialogue.
- Develop the ability to undertake legal research
- Develop the ability to read texts critically (including both primary and secondary sources), and to distinguish between material of central and peripheral importance to the topic.
Graduate Attributes: Skills and abilities in Personal and Intellectual Autonomy:
- Develop original and creative responses to problems and issues;
- Deal with complex issues and make informed judgements in situations in the absence of complete or consistent data/information. Especially, capacity to engage with a holistic assessment of complex policies at the EU and national level;
- Identify the need for and engage with interdisciplinary cooperation to create and implement effective public policies.
Graduate Attributes: Skills and abilities in Communication:
- Communicate with peers, more senior colleagues, and specialists.
- Participate to a brainstorming and contribute to collective reflections on issue solving
- Understand a broad variety of sources.
Graduate Attributes: Skills and abilities in Personal Effectiveness:
- Develop the ability to work independently under fixed deadlines.
- Participate effectively in seminars and discussions.
- Develop their ability to present the outcome of independent research in a clear written and oral form. |
| Keywords | LLM,European Law,Europe,Level 11,Postgraduate,Law,Citizenship |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Timothy Jacob-Owens
Tel:
Email: tjacobo@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Susanna Wickes
Tel:
Email: Susanna.Wickes@ed.ac.uk |
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