Seminar - Applicationof the European Law in the Member States

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The seminar will cover a wide and up-to-date spectrum of legal problems related to the membership of the state (especially Poland) in the European integration processes. The main point of reference will be the application of European Union law by national courts and their dialogue with the Court of Justice of the European Union. This dialogue takes place primarily through the preliminary ruling mechanism. The problems the seminarians will deal with during the classes will largely depend on the interests of students. Before the classes, a survey will be carried out that will allow them to be specified.

Classroom

The subject of the seminar covers the entire spectrum of European Union law - and the choice of topics is made by the seminarians themselves, specifying their interests. Work at the seminar will consist in the selection of the problem in terms of doctrine and the example of its judicial application by national courts, as far as possible in the sequence of interpretation (in the preliminary ruling procedure) of the CJEU and application by national courts, examples of such a sequence are cases of Swiss franc loans, protection consumer, environmental protection, many issues related to the internal market and human rights.

The Polish legal order, since the accession to the EU, i.e. from 1 May 2004, consists of, taking into account the subjective aspect, i.e. the legislator, the subsystem of EU law, established by a specific EU legislator, and the subsystem of Polish law, established by the national legislator . From the point of view of the subject, the Polish legal order is a monistic one, because the EU law is part of the national legal order.

However, the interaction between EU law and national law is complex and governed by general principles such as the principle of direct effect of EU law, the primacy of that law and the principle of effectiveness.

These principles define the legal nature of the relationship between the EU law system and the national law system, define the position and tasks of the national courts of the Member States in the process of interpreting and applying the law of both systems, but also (which is the most difficult) national administrative authorities.

- Grzeszczak R., Pytania prejudycjalne w obszarze praw człowieka. Podręcznik praktyczny dla sędziów, Helsińska Fundacja Praw Człowieka, Warszawa 2019, ss. 117. (wersje w j. polskim i w j. angielskim), dostęp: http://www.hfhr.pl/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Pytania-prejudycjalne-podrecznik-dla-sedziow.pdf

- A. Wróbel (red.), Stosowanie prawa Unii Europejskiej przez sądy, Kraków 2010

- Baran M., Stosowanie z urzędu prawa Unii Europejskiej przez sądy krajowe, Warszawa 2014

- Casaro F., Fontanell F., Lazzerin N., Martinic G., Mataij M., Moraru M., Pitea C., Podstawa K., Torres Perez A., Metody interakcji sądowych w sprawach dotyczących europejskich praw podstawowych, Florencja 2012, opracowanie wersji polskiej Podręcznika: Wydział Prawa Europejskiego Biura Orzecznictwa NSA pod kier. N. Półtorak: P. Florjanowicz-Błachut, M. Kulikowska, P. Wróbel, Warszawa 2014

- Miąsik D., Szwarc M., Stosowanie prawa Unii Europejskiej przez sędziów sądów powszechnych i prokuratorów, Wyd. KSAP, Warszawa 2012

- Safjan M., R. Adam, A. Tizzano, Zarys prawa Unii Europejskiej, Warszawa 2014

- Craig P., de Burca G., EU Law. Text, Cases, and Materials, Oxford 2018 i kolejne wydania

- workshop classes

- students' papers

- discussions

Assessment is based on active participation in seminars (participation in discussions, preparation for them), a delivered paper and preparation of homework - preparation of a legal opinion