JJUA55290U Cancelled EU Welfare Law

The course’s main focus is on the role EU law is playing in the social field and how it interacts with the national welfare systems, especially the Danish model. It discusses central and topical themes, such as the free movement of workers including the situation of posting and social security protection; the protection of ‘static’ workers such as the right to collective bargaining for platform workers, the political and legal battle for inserting an EU minimum wage and minimum income,  the newly adopted directive on work-life balance and the EU pillar of social rights. The course is thus a unique opportunity to deal with a variety of topical EU initiatives at the intersection of different legal areas such as that of labour law, social security law, free movement law and competition law.

The course has a moot-court exercise as one of its central teaching elements where students will both submit a written opinion and plead the case before a panel of ‘judges’ on one of the topics that have been previously discussed in class. It thus both enhance students’ written and oral skills preparing them for their future carrier as a lawyer and for the exam. The written assignment can be reworked and constitute the basis for the synopsis, which is submitted prior to the exam.

Finally, the course provides students with deep knowledge on the issue of EU’s competence in the social field and the interaction with the national state and national welfare models. Thus, the course has the welfare models and their underpinning principles as a red thread and it will take outset in the Danish welfare state.

Feel free to contact the course coordinator and teacher Catherine Jacqueson ccj@jur.ku.dk for further information.