Advanced European Law (IER4006)

Revision notes / summary of lecture and tutorial important points

Summaries of the readings for Advanced European Law week 6: - Michal Bobek, ‘The effects of EU law in the national legal systems’, in Barnard and Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017) chapter 6; - CJEU, Joined Cases C-293/12 and C-594/12, Digital Rights Ireland Ltd v Minister for Communications et al., and Kärtner Landesregierung, Michael Seitlinger et al., judgment of 8 April 2014; - Niklas Vainio and Samuli Miettinen, ‘Telecommunications data retention after Digital Rights Ireland: leg...

Summaries of the readings for Advanced European Law week 3: - Kieran St C Bradley, ‘Legislating in the European Union’, in C. Barnard and S. Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017) chapter 5, only pp. 119-135; - CJEU, Case C-409/13, Council v Commission, judgment of 14 April 2015 (Macro-financial assistance); - Dominique Ritleng, ‘Does the European Court of Justice take democracy seriously? Some thoughts about the Macro-financial Assistance case’, Common Market Law Review (2016) 11-34; - ...

Summaries of the readings for Advanced European Law week 7: - Steve Peers and Darren Harvey, ‘Brexit: the legal dimension’, in Barnard and Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017) chapter 27 – Brexit: the Legal Dimension; - CJEU, Case C-621/18, Andy Wightman and Others v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, judgment of 10 December 2018; - Amichai Magen, ‘Cracks in the foundations: understanding the great rule of law debate in the EU’, Journal of Common Market Studies (2016)...

Summaries of the readings for Advanced European Law Week 1: - Paul Craig, ‘Development of the EU’, in C. Barnard and S. Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017), chapter 2; - Bruno De Witte, ‘EU law: is it international law?’, in C. Barnard and S. Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017), chapter 7

Summaries of the readings for Advanced European Law Week 5: - Albertina Albors-Llorens, ‘Judicial protection before the Court of Justice of the European Union’, in Barnard and Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017), chapter 10 – Judicial protection before the Court of Justice of the European Union; - Eleanor Spaventa, ‘Fundamental rights in the European Union’, in Barnard and Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017), Chapter 9 – Fundamental rights in the European Union; - CJEU, Case C-...

Summaries of the readings for Advanced European Law Week 4: - Kieran St C Bradley, ‘Legislating in the European Union’, in C. Barnard and S. Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017) chapter 5, only pp. 99-104; - European Council Decision of 25 March 2011 amending Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union with regard to a stability mechanism for member states whose currency is the euro, OJ 2011, L 91/1; - Alicia Hinarejos, ‘Economic and monetary union’, in C. Barnar...

Summaries of the readings for week 2 of Advanced European Law: - Kieran St C Bradley, ‘Legislating in the European Union’, in C. Barnard and S. Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017) chapter 5, only pp. 105-119); - Mia Rönnmar, ‘Labour and equality law’, in C. Barnard and S. Peers (eds), European Union Law (2017), chapter 20, only the pages 608-609 dealing with the posted workers question; - Sara Poli, ‘The legal basis of internal market measures with a security dimension’, European...

This 27-page document provides a complete summary of the course Advanced European Law in the Master European Law School at Maastricht University, taught by Professors Bruno de Witte and Maja Brkan. It contains the summaries of all the lectures and all the tutorials, including the case law and the relevant readings that were discussed during the tutorials. Most readings in this course come from the book "European Union Law" by Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers, though the document of course also...