1. Identify and evaluate key institutions of the European Union.

Knowledge, understanding, communication

2. Evaluate substantive law on free movement of persons including citizens’ rights and justifiable limitations.

Knowledge, understanding, enquiry, problem solving, communication

3. Evaluate substantive law on free movement of goods including limitations provided for in legislation and case law.

Knowledge, understanding, enquiry, problem solving, communication

4. Demonstrate an ability to use problem-solving skills to identify and analyse issues of European Union Law in hypothetical situations along with relevant constitutional principles of enforcement.

Knowledge, understanding, analysis, problem solving, communication

The assessment will cover all of the Learning Outcomes. The assessment will comprise problem questions, requiring students to apply their knowledge to a range of authentic scenarios relating to the exercise of rights under EU Law.

Main institutions of the European Union; Free Movement of Persons, including Citizens’ rights; Free Movement of Goods; enforcement of European Union Law.

Could you one day be working for a time in an EU Member State? Could you perhaps be employed by a business which is exporting and importing goods to and from EU Member States? You will explore the law on free movement of goods, an important aspect of the substantive law of the European Union. You will examine the institutional framework of the European Union. You will reflect on the power of the European Commission to take a case in the Court of Justice, in Luxembourg, against any state that has infringed EU law. You will develop your problem-solving skills by analysing a range of scenarios concerning the exercise by a variety of family units of their core EU citizenship rights.

The majority of learning materials will be presented online asynchronously organised as a series of weekly topics. Students will be encouraged to follow the weekly schedule where this is possible. The online learning materials will be organised as a range of short activities for each topic. Instant feedback will be provided where appropriate on computer-aided tests of knowledge. Summaries and explanations of applied tasks will be available, allowing students to assess their progress against suggested answers.

Three synchronous online webinars will be held to provide opportunities for live interaction between students and lecturer, to cover an introduction to the module and learning expectations, an assessment guidance session, and a consolidation session prior to the assessment date. These sessions will be recorded for the benefit of students who are unable to attend at the scheduled time.

Tutor-student and peer interaction will be facilitated through the use of collaborative online learning spaces. Students will be able to post questions and queries as they reflect on their own developing understanding of the key subject concepts.
Students will be expected to be familiar with contemporary discussions in this area of law, and to bring a range of ideas to bear on the discussions. Thus, although there will be a framework of knowledge and understanding, students will be actively, rather than passively, engaged in the process of both learning about, and increasing understanding of, the subject matter.

Margot Horspool, Matthew Humphreys and Michael Wells-Greco, European Union Law (10th edn, Oxford University Press 2018)



Elspeth Berry, Matthew J. Homewood and Barbara Bogusz, Complete EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (4th edn, Oxford University Press 2019)



These books are available electronically on Law Trove.

Books:

Noreen O’Meara, Essential Cases: EU Law (4th edn, Oxford University Press 2020)

John Fairhurst, Sonia Morano-Foadi and Jen Neller, Law of the European Union (13th edn, Pearson 2020)

Journals:

Journal articles, from journals including European Law Review, will be available on one of the databases (below)

Databases:

Law Trove

Westlaw

Lexis Library