Area of Freedom, Security and Justice of the European Union 4003-116WSISW
Cooperation in justice and home affairs dates from relatively short period. Treaty of Maastricht (1992) included them into a common interest of the Member States; and Treaty of Amsterdam made a distinction between cooperation in civil matters, migration and asylum, belonging to EC law and subjected to Community method, and cooperation in criminal law and police remains intergovernmental. From point of view of methodology, there is difference between this cooperation and classical international law. Area of Freedom, Security and Justice is developing very rapidly, and deserves attention.
1. Institutional problems, including procedures before ECJ;
2.Legal instruments of 3rd pillar, including framework decisions;
3. Schengen agreements;
4. Principles of cooperation In civil matters;
5. Cooperation in criminal matters;
6. Cooperation in asylum and immigration.
Student's workload:
lecture - 15 h
preparation to the lecture - 15 h
preparation to the written exam - 30 h
altogether - 60 h
Type of course
Learning outcomes
The students will be familiar with:
– the principal notions in the area of police and judicial cooperation,
– the functioning of the most important legal institutions of the area of freedom, security and justice,
– fundamental issues related to European, civil, criminal and administrative law.
Assessment criteria
Evaluation of a paper presented + discussion during presentations by other students
Bibliography
- W. Czapliński, Obszar Wolności, Bezpieczeństwa i Sprawiedliwości UE, Warszawa 2005
- W. Czaplinski, Obszar wolności, bezpieczeństwa i sprawiedliwości, Warszawa 2005 (nowe wydanie w opracowaniu);
- J. Barcz (red.), Przestrzeń wolności, bezpieczeństwa i sprawiedliwości Unii Europejskiej (3 t.), Warszawa 2012;
- P. Wawrzyk, Polityka Unii Europejskiej w obszarze wolności,spraw wewnętrznych i wymiaru sprawiedliwości, Warszawa 2007;
- G. Vermeulen, W. de Bondt,, EU Justice and Home Affairs, Antwerpen-Apeldoorn 2014
Additional information
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