Foundations of EU Law (+ exercises session without casus)

General learning outcomes
Due to the principle of primacy, European Union law occupies an increasing place in the Belgian legal order. Virtually all branches of law are influenced in one way or another by European Union law. Moreover, many Belgian courts refer questions to the Court of Justice of the EU for a preliminary ruling.
Thus, the teaching unit should help students approach other courses taught in the baccalaureate more easily, namely, company law, civil liability law, labour law, administrative law, etc.
The teaching unit should also make it easier for students to understand the subjects taught in the Master’s degree, either on a compulsory basis (tax law, private international law, international law, and public law) or on an optional basis (consumer law, land use planning law, environmental law, etc.).
Specific learning outcomes
At the end of their bachelor's degree, the student will have acquired the following skills through this course:
I. Acquire general culture and interdisciplinary knowledge
Controlling European integration processes using legal instruments, in particular to overcome internal crises (debt, budget deficit) and external crises (war in Ukraine, sanctions against terrorist groups, etc.).
II. Acquiring specifically legal knowledge

• Master certain concepts, rules, and basic principles of European law.
• Master the regimes for the adoption of secondary rules or secondary legislation (directives, regulations).
• To know how to read a judgment of the General Court and the Court of Justice of the Union.
• Understand the importance of case law.

III. Acquire analytical, reflective, and argumentative skills based on concrete situations

• Develop one's ability to resolve a casus by mobilizing legal knowledge, to identify possible avenues of resolution, to assess their relevance, and to choose the one that appears most appropriate;
• Develop critical thinking;
• Develop your ability to construct reasoned legal reasoning;
• To be introduced to the development of autonomous, coherent and relevant thinking in the legal context in which it is set, but also creative/original;

V. Mastering written communication in French and in a target language

• Develop the ability to communicate, in writing, legal analysis and reasoning, and to defend it convincingly.
• Develop your ability to understand, study, and give theoretical presentations.

Transferable Skills
More broadly, and in terms of transferable skills, the student who has followed this teaching unit will have:

• perfected his mastery of French legal terminology;
• a better understanding of the relationship between the EU's founding treaties, case law, and doctrine;
• an understanding of the processes of European integration.