About this Course
Postgraduate Laws programme:
Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate
Course outline
| External relations law of the European Union |
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| The syllabus for this course will be updated for 2012 to reflect recent developments in the law. All examinations in 2012 onwards will be on the new syllabus. |
| Section A: Constitutional foundations |
| · European Union and European Community legal order |
| · International legal personality |
| · Express competence |
| · Implied competence |
| Section B: International law and European Community law |
| · Negotiation, conclusion and implementation of international agreements |
| · Mixed agreements |
| · Effects of international law in European Community legal order |
| · Relationship between World Trade Organisation and European Community law |
| Section C: External economic relations |
| · Autonomous measures - Common Commercial policy |
| · International Agreements: European Economic Area, Partnership and Cooperation agreements, Stabilisation and Association agreements, Euro-Mediterranean agreements |
| · European neighbourhood policy |
| Section D: External political relations |
| · Common Foreign and Security Policy |
| · European Security and Defence Policy |
| · Relationship between European Community and Common Foreign and Security Policy (sanctions, exports of dual-use goods) |
| · Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe |
| Sequence: Section A first. |
| Textbooks: Panos Koutrakos, EU International Relations Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006), ISBN: 9781841133119 |
| Nigel Foster, Blackstone’s EU Treaties and Legislation 2010-2011 21st ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), ISBN: 9780199582396 |