JJUB55134U Human Rights in the European Union - NOTE: THE COURSE IS CANCELLED IN THE AUTUMN SEMESTER 2018

The course will provide the students with a better understanding of the different aspects of human rights protection within the European Union. The course’s aim is to enable the students to engage in debate about the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) as a human rights court as well as give them knowledge about substantive human rights, such as the right to privacy, and their respective protection within the EU.
 
However, the course will decidedly not provide a linear narrative of the selected topics, but engage the students in a process of discovery and debate with the aim to equip them for solving complex legal problems and meet the legal challenges that face the EU legal human rights order.
 
Human rights have come to be an important part of EU law. Since the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) first introduced fundamental rights protection as an integral part of the Community legal order, it has faced much criticism from both national and international lawyers as well as many other challenges. For example, the CJEU has had to find its place as a human rights court in a global society in which the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations treaty bodies to a wide extent protect essentially the same rights. The course will provide an insight into the scope and nature of the EU human rights protection as well as comparative studies of the CJEU and the case law from other human rights institutions on selected human rights issues, such as the right to privacy.