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Course Directors:

Marie Pierre Granger, CEU, Legal Studies, Hungary Imola Streho, Sciences Po, Paris, France Joseph Weiler, New York University, Jean Monnet Center, USA

The 2010 Advanced Course in European Union Legal Practice, with is offered jointly by the Department of Legal Studies and Summer University of Central European University (CEU), in cooperation with the Total Law^TM Team. For the sixth consecutive year, the program brings together for 2 weeks around 50 participants from all over the world and from diverse legal backgrounds, i.e. law students near completion of their law degree, law graduates and legal professionals, who are seeking further credentials and experience in the field. It may be particularly appealing to government officials and those aiming at a career in national, international and/or European civil service and those who wish to apply for jobs in the field of European Union law. The working language of the course is English.

Since 2005 the course has attracted participants from 33 countries, most of them coming from EU member states, but also from EU candidate and neighboring countries, the US, Australia, Brazil, India, Israel, Singapore, etc.

Course Description

This advanced course is about the practice of European Union Law. Participants receive hands-on insider analysis about the functioning of the European Union. The program is designed to combine seminars on different subjects as well as workshops supporting the topic addressed in these seminars or some aspects thereof. The course will also cover the current issues of the European project such as the institutional agenda and the Lisbon treaty as well as the consequences of the financial crisis.

The Total Law^TM team, led by Joseph Weiler, Joseph Straus Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law, is a unique blend of well known academics and senior officials working in the European Union institutions who have also written widely in the field. The members of this team are José M. de Areilza, Professor of European Union Law and Vice Dean of Legal Studies at Instituto de Empresa, Madrid; Kieran St C. Bradley, Head of Unit in the Legal Service of the European Parliament, Brussels; Damian Chalmers, Professor in EU law at the London School of Economics and Political Science; Miguel Poiares Maduro, Professor at the European University Institute, Florence; Imola Streho, Senior Lecturer at Sciences Po, Paris and Emily K. White, coordinator of the Team, who is Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center at NYU Law school. The 2010 summer course was designed and put together by the Total Law^TM team. The particular composition of the team gives the seminar and the workshop both that advanced knowledge and the insider view that is so valuable for the participants.

The Total Law^TM Method

The Total Law^TM approach, developed by the Jean Monnet Center at the New York University School of Law, believes in contextualization: situating a legal controversy, a court decision, a Treaty provision, a Directive or a Regulation in its economic, social and political context. The aim is not to make participants amateur economists or political scientists, but rather to give them "another perspective" on the problem. The course will improve the participants' skills by explaining how economic, social and political contexts shape the particular legal problem addressed and impact the thinking about its legal solution. The program will equip participants with the ability to understand the economic, social and political consequences of different legal outcomes. The discipline is Law. The focus is Law. But the premise is that Law cannot be understood, nor practiced professionally and competently, without understanding its broader contexts.

In addition to seminars and workshop, the program includes social and cultural activities, such as various thematic evenings with members of the Total Law^TM team (e.g. evening in a typical kert bar, wine tasting, karaoke in an Irish pub, or lunch in a traditional vendéglo), a visit to the Hungarian Constitutional Court or the Hungarian Parliament, a boat trip to picturesque Szentendre followed by a picnic, a cultural walking tour of Budapest, etc.

The Total Law^TM approach was designed jointly by all members of the team so as to make the parts fit into a coherent whole and to ensure that the different methodological and intellectual approaches practiced in the course all add up so that the whole is greater than the parts. This approach is also used at other universities worldwide.

Further information method is available at:

http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/totallaw/index.html

Specific inquiries about the course content and the method should be directed to

totallaw@jeanmonnetprogram.org

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Guest Lectures by:

Professor Marie-Pierre Granger
Dr Petra Bard

Examination:

Saturday, July 17, 2010 (until 2 pm)

CEU

Marie-Pierre Granger (DEA, PHD) currently works as an Associate Professor at the Public Policy Department of Central European University in Budapest (Hungary). Prior to joining CEU, she was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter (UK).She teaches various courses on EU law and politics, as well as international and comparative public law. Her research focuses on EU institutional and procedural law, Europeanization, legal integration in Europe, comparative public law, and judicial process. She is the editor of the Francovich follow-up dossier on case law related to State liability under EC law, available at http://www.francovich.eu. Selected publications: 'When Governments' go to Luxembourg...: The Influence of Governments on the European Court of Justice' (2004) 29 European Law Review 1-31;'The Future of Europe: Judicial interference and preferences' (2005) 3 Contemporary European Politics 155-179; 'Francovich and the construction of European Administrative jus commune by national courts' (2007) 32 European Law Review 157-192; 'France is "already" back in Europe: the Europeanization of French Courts and the influence of France in the EU' (2008) 14:3 European Public Law 333-373.

Petra Bárd is a Member of the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine (CELAB) established at the Central European University. She is participating in an EU FP6 project investigating the legal framework of biobanks. She is the Vice-Chairperson of the Hungarian Europe Society, lectures at the Central European University and the Ecole supérieure des sciences commerciale d'Angers (ESSCA), since 2003 she participates in the work of the Network of Experts of Fundamental Rights monitoring human rights on the basis of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. In her writings she primarily addresses European constitutionalism, human rights in the European Union, the rights of persons living with disabilities, and judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters.

The Total Law^TM Team

J. H. H. Weiler is University Professor and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair at the New York University (NYU) School of Law. He serves as Director of The Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, The Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization, and The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice. He is also Director of the J.S.D. Program at the Law School. Prior to his NYU appointment he was the Manley Hudson Professor of Law and Jean Monnet Chair at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a WTO and NAFTA Panel Member. He is a founding editor of the European Journal of International Law, of the European Law Journal and of the World Trade Review. He writes in the fields of International Law, the Law of the European Union, and Comparative Constitutional Law. His recent publications include: Un'Europa Cristiana: Un saggio esplorativo, (BUR Saggi, Milano, 2003 - translations into Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Slovenian, Hungarian); The European Court of Justice (OUP 2001 with G. de Burca); The EU, the WTO and the NAFTA (OUP, 2000), The Constitution of Europe (CUP, 1998--translated into Spanish, Italian, Slovenian, Serbian, Japanese, Greek, Chinese), and a Novella, Der Fall Steinmann (Piper, 2000).

José M. de Areilza is Professor of European Union Law and Dean of the Law School at Instituto de Empresa, Madrid. Between 1996 and 2000 he was Advisor on European Affairs at the Spanish Prime Minister's Office. During 2002, he advised the Spanish Government Representative at the European Convention. His research focuses on European institutions, flexibility and EU-Member States competences. He has published several articles on these issues and has edited and co-authored the books "Espa?a y las transformaciones de la Unión Europea" (1998) and "Internet, una profecía" (2002). He is the Editor of the weblog BlogEuropa.eu. He has been a Visiting Professor at William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, USA and at the College of Europe in Natolin, Poland.

Kieran St C. Bradley is Head of the Unit of the European Parliament's Legal Service. He has previously served as a référendaire at the European Court of Justice, and as an administrator on the secretariat of the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs. In Spring 2000, he was the first 'Distinguished Lecturer on European Law' at Harvard Law School, and he has also taught courses on EC law at various other universities and higher level educational institutes, such as the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the East-West Forum (Academy of European Law, Fiesole), the College of Europe (Natolin Campus, Warsaw) and the Central European University, Budapest. In 2003-2004, he served on both groups of legal experts advising on the drafting of the Constitution for Europe. He has published extensively in a number of areas of EC law, particularly institutional law.

Damian Chalmers is Professor in EU law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to that he was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, and was for 4 years on the Management Committee of the AIRE Centre. He has held Visiting Appointments at the College of Europe, Copenhagen, Lund, Helsinki, Michigan, Instituto de Empresa and Fudan (PRC). He is currently editor of the European Law Review and EU Jurist. He is the author (with C. Hadjiemmanuil, G. Monti & A. Tomkins) of European Union Law (2006, CUP). His other recent publications include The Reconstitution of Europe's Public Spheres' (2003) 9 European Law Journal, 'Food for Thought: European Risks and National Ways of Life' (2003) 66 Modern Law Review,'Risk, Anxiety and the European Mediation of the Politics of Life' (2005) 30 European Law Review 649, 'The Court of Justice and the Constitutional Treaty' (2005) 4 I-CON 428; 'Private Power and Public Authority in European Union Law' (2005-6) 8 Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies.

Miguel Poiares Maduro is Professor at the European University Institute in Florence. From 2003 till 2009 he was Advocate General at the European Court of Justice. He is also an external Professor at the London School of Economics, the College of Europe and the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales (Madrid). He received his doctorate from the European University Institute (EUI, Florence) where he was also a Research Assistant and Fellow. He is also an external Professor at the Instituto Ortega y Gasset (Madrid), the London School of Economics and the Institute of European Studies of Macao (China). He has been Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard Law School. He is Co-director of the Academy of International Trade Law (Macao). He co-edited with Joseph Weiler the "Special Book Review Issue" of the European Law Journal. He is currently co-editor with Francis Snyder of the Hart Publishers Series Studies in European Law and Integration. He was the first winner of the Rowe and Maw Prize and winner of the Prize Obiettivo Europa (for the best PhD thesis at the EUI). He is the author of We the Court--The European Court of Justice and the European Economic Constitution (Hart Publishing, 1997).

Imola Streho is Senior Lecturer at Sciences Po, Paris, where she is Program Director of the Master of European Affairs. From 2002 till 2008, she was référendaire at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. She is a Doctor of Laws by the Law Faculty of the University of Paris 2 (Pantheon-Assas) where she is teaching seminars on the European Judicial System and the Law of the International Market (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales). She has also taught EC law at the National University of Singapore and the University of Melbourne. From 2000 to 2002, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and NYU School of Law where she was the Executive Director of its Jean Monnet Center. She holds a diploma from the College of Europe. She writes in the field of EU law. Her publications include: "Fundamental Principles vs. Fundamental Rights, comment on the ECJ decisions Schmidberger, C-112/00" (2003-2004) 1, and Omega, C-36/02" (2003-2004) 4, also "on the ECJ judgment Bidar, C-209/03" (2005) 2, RAE / Law & European Affairs, and "Regional Organizations' Judicial System Compared: Is the European Model Transposable and Should It Be?" (2004) 27 Review of Asian Pacific Studies.

Emily K. White is the Coordinator of the Total Law^TM Team. In addition, she is a Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at New York University where she previously graduated with an LL.M. in International Legal Studies. At NYU, Emily received the Jerome Lipper Prize for distinction in the International Legal Studies Program. Emily is also presently the Associate Editor of the European Journal of International Law. Prior to obtaining her LL.M., Emily was a litigation associate at a large full-service Toronto firm.

Enrollment Options

Option 1. CEU Diploma in Advanced European Legal Practice
Law students near completion of their law degree, law graduates and legal professionals who, at the time of enrollment, register for the examination, will receive a CEU Certificate of Participation, and, if they pass the examinations, a CEU Diploma in Advanced European Union Legal Practice and a CEU transcript with transferable credits. Students are advised to check on credit transferability at their home institution prior to applying to this program.

Option 2. CEU Certificate of Participation
Law students near completion of their law degree, law graduates and legal professionals, who choose, at the time of enrollment, not to take the examination, will receive a Certificate of Participation. Such participants will not receive credits.

This summer course is financed through tuition fees (750 EUR), and will not be able to offer any scholarships or tuition waivers.* The fee includes participation in the summer course, some administrative costs, an orientation program and welcome pack, access to the CEU Library and IT facilities, reading materials, printing quota, and some social activities. Participants are also expected to cover their travel and accommodation expenses.

* For CEU Legal Studies Students ONLY: A number of current CEU Legal Studies students (Comparative Constitutional Law and Human Rights streams only), who have completed 5 CEU Legal Studies credits related to EU law during the course of academic year 2009-2010, will be eligible to attend the Summer course with a tuition waiver, and if they pass the final exam, to graduate with a 'CEU LLM/MA in Human Rights/Comparative Constitutional Law with specialization in European Law'. For further information, contact Prof. Granger, at grangerm@ceu.hu.