Syllabus - INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN UNION LAW (62782)

Required Reading:
Chapter One - introduction to the Course

The importance and relevance of the course, teaching methodology, the exam

Chapter Two – Introduction to the EU

Historical background, transformation from the European Coal and Steel Community into the EU, main trends, enlargement, deepening

Reading
Schuman Declaration
http://europa.eu/about-eu/basic-information/symbols/europe-day/schuman-declaration/index_en.htm

Nobel Prize
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/2012/eu-lecture_en.html

Joseph Weiler (2011), 'Editorial: 60 Years since the First European Community - Reflections on Political Messianism', European Journal of International Law, 22/3, 303-309

http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/22/2/303.full.pdf

אריה רייך, "האיחוד האירופאי", פרק 8 לספרו של רובי סיבל המשפט הבינלאומי – מהדורה שנייה

Optional reading – Hebrew

ליאור זמר ושרון פרדו, הרהורים על אקטיביזים שיפוטי, משפט ועסקים ז (2007), 203, 205-207

Chapter Three – Institutions, Legal Sources, Legislative Process, legal enforcement

Articles 258-260, 263-265, 267 288-289
Treaty on the functioning of the EU

http://europa.eu/eu-law/decision-making/treaties/pdf/consolidated_versions_of_the_treaty_on_european_union_2012/consolidated_versions_of_the_treaty_on_european_union_2012_en.pdf

Chapter Four – Judge made Constitutional Law

Reading

G. Mancini, The Making of a Constitution for Europe, 26 Common Market Law Review (1989), 595-614

Joseph Weiler (1999), "The Transformation of Europe," in: The Constitution of Europe: Do the New Closes Have an Emperor? 2405-2431 & 2478-2483

G. Harpaz, Judicial Review by the European Court of Justice of UN "Smart Sanctions" against Terror in the Kadi Dispute, 14 EFAR (2009), 65.

C - 6/64 Costa v. ENEL [1964] ECR 585
Factortame (2) [1991] AC 603
C- 26/62 Van Gend en Loos [1963] ECR 1
C- 43/75 Defrrenne v. SABENA [1976] EC R 455
C- 36/74 Wallrave and Koch v. AVCI [1974] ECR 1405
C- 148/78 Public Ministrey v. Ratti [1978] ECR 1629
C – 152/84 Marshall [1986] ECR 723
C- 106/89 Marleasing SA v. La Commercial [1990] ECR I – 4135
FRANCOVICH - ראה לעיל
C- 29/69 Stauder v. Ulm [1969] ECR 419
C- 4/73 Nold v. Commission [1974] ECR 491
C- 299/95 Kremzow v. Austria [1997] ECR I – 2629
C – 159/90 Society for the Protection of the Unborn v Grogan [1991] I – ECR 4685
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexplus!prod!CELEXnumdoc&numdoc&eq;61990J0159

C-70/88 European Parliament v Council of the European Communities, Para. 13-14 21-31
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri&eq;CELEX:61988CJ0070:EN:HTML

Opinion 1/91 (EEA)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri&eq;cellar:efe0bbc1-9bd7-4058-9b08-bfcbdf60d43f.0002.06/DOC_1&format&eq;PDF

Opinion 2/94 (accession ECHR)
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?uri&eq;cellar:3645916a-61ba-4ad5-84e1-57767433f326.0002.02/DOC_1&format&eq;PDF

Opinion 2/13
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/celex.jsf?celex&eq;62013CV0002&lang1&eq;en&type&eq;TXT&ancre&eq;

C-265/95 Commission v France just as discussed in class
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri&eq;CELEX:61995CJ0265&from&eq;EN

Joined Case C-402/05 and C-415/05 P Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v Council and Commission,.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri&eq;CELEX:62005J0402:EN:HTML

Optional reading – Hebrew

ליאור זמר ושרון פרדו, הרהורים על אקטיביזים שיפוטי, משפט ועסקים ז (2007), 203

Chapter Five – A Constitution for Europe? The Charter of Fundamental Rights, the Constitutional Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty

G. Harpaz (2011), 'European Integration in the Aftermath of the Ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon: Quo Vadis?' European Public Law 17/1 European Public Law, 73

C-131/12 Google Spain SL and Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) and Mario Costeja González
The Google verdict

http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessionid&eq;9ea7d2dc30d5c0d8a2ace7114b1eaf06e8b55ebf4e04.e34KaxiLc3qMb40Rch0SaxuNbh90?text&eq;&docid&eq;152065&pageIndex&eq;0&doclang&eq;en&mode&eq;lst&dir&eq;&occ&eq;first&part&eq;1&cid&eq;184925

Chapter Six – The National Constitutional Response

A. Steinbach, 'The Lisbon Judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court' 11/4 German Law Journal (2010), 368
http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdfs/Vol11-No4/Vol_11_No_04_367 -390_Steinbach.pdf

ARMIN VON BOGDANDY and STEPHAN SCHILL, Overcoming Absolute Primacy: Respect for National Identity under the Lisbon Treaty Common Market Law Review 48: 1–38, 2011.

Chapter Seven - Normative Power Europe and the State of Israel

I. Manners, Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?, 40/2 JCMS 235 (2002)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-5965.00353/pdf

Yoram Hazoni
http://via.readerimpact.com/v/1/c52153a35cd149240c64579a6e6648a96b7210346658c26c

G. Harpaz and A. Shamis (2010), 'Normative Europe and the State of Israel: An Illegitimate Eurotopia?', 48/3 Journal of Common Market Studies, 579-616

G. Harpaz and Eyal Rubinson, (2010) 'The Interface between Trade, Law and Politics and the Erosion of Normative Power Europe: Comment on Brita', European Law Review

Chapter Eight – The Challenges

Etzioni, Amitai, "The Community Deficit" . Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 23-42, March 2007 Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract&eq;961924 or DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2007.00701.x