MULTILEVEL SYSTEM OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Cod.26602571

PRESENTACIÓN

ECTS: 5

2 semester

The recognition of rights and freedoms has always constituted one of the most important foundations of societies and groups, and, particularly, societies, institutions and democratic groups. European Union has not been immune to the importance of the recognition of a list of fundamental rights. And even over a long period of time, the European Convention on Human Rights and constitutional traditions common to the Member States have informed the implementation of rights by European Union  institutions and their defense by the Court of Justice. There have been several attempts to adopt a bill of rights, and finally it was possible thanks to the  drafting and proclamation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in 2000. However, even before, the Court of Justice had made a very valuable and effective jurisprudential construction that, de facto, allowed that outmoded Communities and the actual European Union recognized and applied fundamental rights in their field.

This course addresses a detailed study of the multilevel system of rights on European Union that now has,  as best support, the Fundamental Rights’ Charter  with the same legal value as the Treaties.

Now it is virtually impossible to know European Union without an enough and rigorous information about  the multi-level system of rights that is recognized and applied in EU. This elective course is on track to meet this goal.