Università Roma Tre

COURSE DESCRIPTION
“European Judicial System” is an advanced course of European Union Law. It focuses on some selected topics that should be already familiar to students, with the purpose of providing an in-depth knowledge of the relevant case-law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Those topics are as follows:
1. The impact of unimplemented Directives on domestic legal orders.
2. Critical features of the EU judicial system: locus standi of natural and legal persons in the action for annulment, relevance of questions referred for preliminary rulings.
3. Citizenship of the EU:
a. Acquisition
b. Limits to the freedom of movement of EU citizens
c. Right of residence of nationals of third countries who are family members of Union citizens.
4. European Arrest Warrant

Course textbook(s)
No textbook reading is required. However, the support of a textbook in English may prove useful to prepare presentations and/or to gain or improve one’s knowledge of specific topic(s).

Judgements that students are required to read (see the Calendar of the Course):
F.lli Costanzo, Case 103/88, 22 June 1989
Unilever, Case C-443/98, 26 September 2000
Lemmens, Case C-226/97, 16 June 1998
Kücükdeveci, Case C-555/07, 19 January 2010
Marleasing, Case C-106/89, 13 November 1990
Plaumann, Case 25/62, 15 July 1963
Jégo-Qéré, Case T-177/01, 3 May 2002 and C-263/02P, 1 April 2004
UPA, Case C-50/00, 25 July 2002
Codorniu, Case C-309/89, 18 May 1994
Greenpeace, Case C-321/95P, 2 April 1998
Garcia Avello, Case C-148/02, 2 October 2003
Rottman, Case C-135/08, 2 March 2010
Tsakouridis, Case C-145/09, 23 November 2010
P.I., Case C-348/09, 22 May 2012
Zhu & Chen, Case C-200/02, 19 October 2004
McCarthy, Case C-434/09, 5 May 2011
Zambrano, Case C-34/09, 8 March 2011
Dereci and Others, Case C-256/11, 15 November 2011
Yoshikazu Iida, Case C-40/11, 8 November 2012
Wolzenburg, Case C-123/08, 6 October 2009
Kozlowski, Case C-66/08, 17 July 2008