During this course, you will:

•  become familiar with the constituent elements of certain (international) crimes, the criteria of jurisdiction of national criminal courts (in particular, French) and the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

• discover the history of international criminal justice, international crimes and the prosecution (at two levels) of these crimes

• Introduction

• PART 1: DEFINING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES
  • Chapter 1: The specificity of (core) international crimes
  • Chapter 2: Categories of core international crimes
• PART 2: PROSECUTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AT A DOMESTIC LEVEL
  • Chapter 1: Criminal jurisdiction principles
  • Chapter 2: Concurring criminal jurisdictions

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The course is an introduction to the European Union (EU) legal system.

The core features and most important principles of the EU are analysed in order to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of this unique model of regionalism. The history of the European integration process, the institutional structure and legislative process of the EU, and the main characteristics of the Single market and the Area of Freedom Security and Justice, will be addressed. 

• Introduction . History of the European Union (EU)
• The EU and its Member States
• The EU and its institutional framework
• The functionning of the Single Market and the AFSJ (basic principles)

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The aim of the seminar is to present and discuss the evolution and the current configurations of one of the fundamental frameworks through which politics has been most commonly approached, both practically and analytically: the distinction between the domestic and the international sphere.

The seminar first introduces the historical and conceptual context within which traditional notions of the relation between the internal and external dimensions of politics have developed and attested as the ‘normal’ way to practice and conceive of the latter.

The seminar then focuses on the dramatic changes that this fundamental divide have been undergoing, and how the they have been thought of as manifestations of the multifaceted phenomenon commonly known as ‘globalisation’.

The European integration process is then presented as a set of processes, institutions, procedures and principles that emerged/were designed to respond to – and at the same time feed – these crucial shifts, resulting in the largely unprecedented polity the is the European Union.  

In doing so, the concepts of sovereignty, power and influence are presented, together with the basics of International Relations and European integration theories, in order to understand how the integration process has contributed to their redefinition. 

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