DEPARTMENT OF LAW / SEMINAR: CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE EU

Background:

The seminar intends to offer a general overview of the EU institutional architecture and to focus upon the main transversal issues we meet in its principles, rules and procedures. We will begin by highlighting the hybrid nature of the EU, mostly through the historical developments that have transformed an initially international organization into a hermaphrodite that has both international and constitutional features.

The institutional setting will be consequently examined under this light, also analyzing how the Lisbon Treaty has settled the complex relationships between communitarian and intergovernmental institutions and procedures. Where the rate of democracy of the EU comes from is a crucial issue and the role increasingly recognized to National Parliaments is an essential key to understand it. The enduring uncertainties on the nature itself of the Union are mirrored by the unsolved dilemma between primacy or supremacy of Union Law , which also is a dilemma as to the court entitled to the last word, whether the European Court of Justice or National courts. The case law of the BundesVerfassung Gericht is at the core of these dilemmas. Finally the area where the miracle of producing e pluribus unum is mostly difficult will be examined: common foreign and security policy.

The seminar will take place in Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia on Monday 02 April 2012 from 11:00 - 13:00.

Deadline: 02 April 2012

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