European Union Procedural Law (Preliminary Ruling) (5cr)

Objective

European procedural law course prepares student to work as an attorney or a judge in a case, where one needs to apply and use the procedural rules of European law. The course deepens student’s knowledge and skills especially in procedural European law (European union/European human rights).

After the course the student knows how to use in practice European legal material and method of literal, aim-oriented and systematic interpretation.

Content

1. Reading the cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Court of Human Rights
2. The obligation to refer a question for a preliminary ruling
3. Case study (reading of cases)
4. Homework (question referred)

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

1-5, fail.

Materials

Material will be delivered before and during the course in the Moodle platform.

Further information

NOTE! This course is similar in content to the course taught in Finnish OTMVAL0054 Euroopan unionin prosessioikeus. Before registering, you should note that it is not possible to take two courses of the same content, but in different languages, for the degree