Università Roma Tre

The course intends to provide students a guidance on finding, evaluating and understanding the European system of law and the process of European integration as a whole.
The course deals with the doctrinal construction as well as the practical application of European Constitutional Law. European integration built a supranational system of government that, nowadays, counts 28 Member States and acts within almost all areas of social life. In fact, European law has come to influence and develop national law on the base of a supremacy principle: national Institutions, protection of fundamental rights as well as national systems of sources of law are now unavoidably defined by such European dimension, that brings and derives from constitutional integration. Thus, the course regards the constitutional foundations of European Union, how does it works and the way it produces law. Moreover, it focuses on main issues arising from relationship between national and European levels of government, in the light of multilevel constitutionalism.