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Undergraduate law students and students of other academic backgrounds with a strong interest in the course topic
The EU is set to achieve an ever closer union among the peoples of Europe and at the same time it is bound to respect national cultural, linguistic and national constitutional identities. How can these two seemingly opposing aims be properly accommodated? Who claims to have the last word about it? What are the challenges and where lie the possible boundaries of the European legal integration?
The course will be combined from four thematic parts. Firstly, it will take a look into the basic features of a modern liberal democratic nation-state and its constitutional commitments. Secondly, it will examine the foundations of the EU, its governing principles and values and its sui generis nature as a supranational form. Thirdly, it will highlight a notion of national constitutional identity from a national as well as from the European perspective. And finally, it will delve into the questions of resistance and dissent in legal theory and try to find parallels with an uneasy relation between the member states and the EU.