European Fundamental Rights Law (IER4016)

Summary document of the readings for European Fundamental Rights Law week 4: - ECtHR, Bosphorus Hava Yollari Turizm ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi v Ireland, Application no. 45036/98, decision of 30 June 2005; - ECtHR, Michaud v France, Application no. 12323/11, decision of 6 December 2012; - ECtHR, M.S.S. v Belgium and Greece, Appl. No. 30696/09, judgment of 21 January 2011; - ECtHR, Dhabi v Italy, Application no. 17120/09), decision of 8 April 2014; - ECJ, Opinion 2/13 on accession to the ECHR of ...

Summary document of the readings for European Fundamental Rights Law week 7: - Mark Dawson, Elise Muir and Monica Claes, ‘Enforcing the EU’s Rights Revolution: the Case of Equality’ (2012) European Human Rights Law Review 276-291; - CJEU, C-286/12 European Commission v. Hungary, judgment of 6 November 2012; - Commission takes Hungary to Court for criminalising activities in support of asylum seekers and opens new infringement for non-provision of food in transit zones; - Olivier de Schutte...

Summary document of the readings for European Fundamental Rights Law week 3: - Monica Claes, Fundamental Rights, in PJ Kuyper and others, The Law of the European Union (5th ed, 2018), Chapter 4, pp. 97-130; - European Commission, 2018 Report on the Application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, pp. 1-21; - C Leconte, ‘The EU Fundamental Rights Policy as a Source of Euroscepticism’ 15 Human Rights Review (2014) 83–96; - ECJ, Case C-614/10, Åklagaren v. Hans Åkerberg Fransson; - ECJ,...

Summary document of the readings for European Fundamental Rights Law week 5: - Robert Spano, 'Universality or Diversity of Human Rights? Strasbourg in the Age of Subsidiarity' (2014) Human Rights Law Journal 487-502; - Bruno De Witte, ‘Article 53’ in S Peers, T Hervey, J Kenner and A Ward (eds) The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights – A Commentary (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2013); - Matteo Bonelli, ‘The Taricco saga and the consolidation of judicial dialogue in the European Union’ Maast...

Summary document of the readings for European Fundamental Rights Law week 1: - Kai Möller, ‘The global model of constitutional rights: Introduction’, LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers 4/2013, only pp. 1-16; - Stephen Gardbaum, ‘The structure and scope of constitutional rights’, in Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon, Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar: 2011), 387-405; - Mary Ann Glendon, ‘Rights talk: the impoverishment of political discourse’ (1991). The Social Cont...

This 28-page document provides a full summary of the course European Fundamental Rights Law, including the (sometimes restructured) lectures and the tutorials, taught by Professor Monica Claes. It moreover contains the relevant core parts of the readings and of the case law.