Universität Wien

030668 KU International Constitutional Law in a European Perspective (2008S)

3.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 3 - Rechtswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work

Vorbesprechung: 13.03.08, 16:30-18:00
Verpflichtende LV der Universität gegenüber der EU als Teil des Erasmus-Intensivprogramms NICLAS

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Language: English

Lecturers

Classes

Currently no class schedule is known.

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Aims, contents and method of the course

International Constitutional Law (ICL) as a legal discipline combines constitutional law, public international law, European law and legal theory. The course will focus on EU-Security policies (as part of the "Area of Freedom, Security and Justice" within a multilevel constitutional reality. The relevant questions and problems will be examplified and disussed through selected case studies.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The course serves as preparatory course for the NICLAS - Summer School 2008. However, participation in the preparatory course is open to other interested students. At an academic level students shall learn to understand constitutions in their historic but in particular in their contemporary context and learn to question constitutional concepts instead of acceptinig them as sacrosanct.

Examination topics

Introduction to ICL; preparation and presentation of case-studies related to the NICLAS 2008 topic "Security in a multilevel-system" by participants (group work), interacitve discussions.

Reading list

J.H.H. Weiler/Marlene Wind (eds), European Constitutionalsm Beyond the State, 2003
Christian Joerges/Inger-Johanne Sand/Gunther Teubner, Transnational Governance and Constitutionalism, 2004
Mark Tushnet, Comparative Constitutional Law, in Mathias Reimann/Reinhard Zimmermann (eds), Sovereignty in Transition, 2003.
Walter van Gerven, The European Union. A Polity of States and Peoples, 2005.
Gunther Teubner (ed), Global Law Without a Sate, 1997
Ulrike Liebert, Postnational Constitutionalisation in the New Europe: Preconditions, Procedures, Legitimacy and Prospects, in: Ulrike Liebert/Josef Falke/Andreas Maurer (eds), Postnational constitutionalisation in the New Europe 13-34 (2005).
Phlipp allott, The crises of European constitutionalism: reflection on the revolution of Europe, 34 CMLR 439-490 (1997).
Otto Pfersmann, The new revision of the old constitution, Int J Constitutional Law 383-404 (2005).
Altneuland-Converence NYU School of Law: The Constitution of Europe in an American Perspective, April 28-30, 2004: http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/conference_JMC_Princeton/program.html
In German:
Harald Eberhard/Konrad Lachmayer/Gerhard Thallinger, Über Inhalt und Methode des Internationalen Verfassungsrecht als Wissenschaftsdisziplin, in: Harald Eberhard/Konrad Lachmayer/Gerhard Thallinger (eds), Reflexionen zum Internationalen Verfassungsrecht 175-192 (2005).

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