Area of freedom, security and justice

leusl2103  2019-2020  Louvain-la-Neuve

Area of freedom, security and justice
Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Carlier Jean-Yves; SOMEBODY;
Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
The course is divided in two parts.
The first one is related to the EU external borders policy and consequently to these topics: free movement of persons, immigration, asylum and visas policies. The ongoing communitarization of these areas will be underlined.
The second one will deal with the police and judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters. Main aspects will be approached:
- judicial cooperation (mutual recognition and enforcement of judgments)
- police cooperation (creation of coordinating bodies, operative information, training of personnel)
- EU's relations with third countries
- EU's policies (fight against terrorism, organized crime, drug abuse and the trade in illicit drugs)
- prospects (Lisbon treaty, enhanced cooperations, passerelle clause).
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

1 There are two objectives: on one hand, at the end of the course, students are supposed to have a good knowledge of the legislation, the main cases laws and the uses in the field of free movement of persons inside and towards the European Union. On the other hand, on theses bases, the course opens the discussion on the future challenges.
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Evaluation methods
Oral or written examination.
Faculty or entity
EURO


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in European Studies