European Constitutional Law

This subject provides an advanced understanding of the constitutional questions of Europe and the EU. The entries analyses the EU Law constitutional principles, in light of the case law of the European Court of Justice and general principles at can be borrowed form domestic constitutional theory or public international law. The entries include cases of the ECJ and opinions of the Advocate General, combined with some cases from European national courts. Topics will include the nature of the EU as a constitutional state in the making or a sui generis international organisation; the ECJ doctrine of the ‘autonomy’ of EU law; the principle of direct effect; the principle of supremacy; non-discrimination; citizenship; human rights; remedies and procedural autonomy.