030332 SE European Union Legal Theory (2022W)

The seminar will address questions such as sovereignty in the Union, its federal structure, the “constitutional” quality of the Treaties, the emergence of the doctrines of supremacy and direct effect, the CJEU and members state courts, the different conceptions of the internal market, the questions of justice involved in labor mobility, the authoritarian liberalism of monetary union, the role that the Union is supposed to play vis-à-vis wayward and backsliding Member States, etc.