Checking date: 28/05/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Litigating in EU Courts
(17274)
Master in International Advocacy (Plan: 370 - Estudio: 334)
EPD


Coordinating teacher: LASTIRI SANTIAGO, MONICA

Department assigned to the subject: Private Law Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:




Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
Litigation before European courts 1.- Proceedings before the CJEU: Court of Justice and General Court a) Jurisdiction of General Court, Court of Justice and types of proceedings b) Presentation of written pleadings. c) Grounds of action, proceedings, and hearing. d) Decision and consequences. 2.- Proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a) Jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights. b) Presentation of written pleadings. c) Grounds of action, proceedings and hearings. d) Judgment/Decision and consequences.
Learning activities and methodology
TEACHING ACTIVITIES BY MATTER AF1 Lecture AF2 Practice/Case AF3 Lecture-plus-practice AF6 Group work AF7 Students¿ individual work TEACHING METHODOLOGIES BY MATTER MD1: Lecture in class by the professor aided by computer and audiovisual tools, in which the course¿s main concepts will be developed, and the main literature will be provided. MD2: Critical reading of the texts recommended by the course¿s professor: press articles, reports, manuals and/or academic articles, for their discussion in class, or to expand and consolidate the lessons of the course. MD3: Resolution of cases, problems, etc, provided by the professor, individually or in group. MD4: Exposition and discussion in class, moderated by the professor, on topics regarding the contents of the course, as well as practical cases. MD5: Making of Works and reports individually or in group. TUTORING: Students will have access to tutorials with the person responsible for coordinating the subject. With the tutoring it is intended to organize the teaching and learning processes that are based on the interaction between the student and the teacher in order to: (i) Guide the autonomous and group work of the students (ii) Deepen in different aspects of the subject (iii) Guide the academic and comprehensive training of the student. The tutorials will take place at the time and under the conditions determined by the teacher in Aula Global.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • Philip Leach. Taking a Case to the European Court of Human Rights. Oxford University Press. 2011
  • RenBarents; Helen Breese. Remedies and Procedures before EU Courts. Wolters Kluwer. 2016

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.