Module LAW3041: EC III - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION LAW

Department: LAW

LAW3041: EC III - EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT AND DISCRIMINATION LAW

Prerequisites

• Public Law.

Corequisites

• None.

Excluded Combination of Modules

• None.

Aims

• To build on knowledge and skills developed in Public Law.
• Students will examine the entire range of issues associated with European Community employment and discrimination law, including policy-making, substantive rules, interpretation by the Court of Justice and national courts, and remedies.

Content

• Students will first examine the history of policy-making in the European Community as it relates to employment and discrimination law, including the development of distinctive legal bases for employment and discrimination law.
• Significant aspects of the procedure for adopting employment and discrimination law measures, such as the social dialogue and the debate over human rights in the European Union, will be examined.
• Then substantive law on employment and discrimination will be examined: equality between men and women, discrimination measures adopted under Article 13 EC, health and safety, worker information and consultation, protection of employment and employment market policy.

Learning Outcomes

• Students should be able to:
• Demonstrate a depth of knowledge about EC employment and discrimination law and policy, building on the subject foundations learned in Public Law.

• Students should be able to:
• Differentiate between the types of legal measures and sources of law in the subject area
• Analyse abstract and concrete legal questions concerning the subject area
• Explain the background issues informing the development of this policy area, and engage in debates surrounding policy options in the area of employment and discrimination law.

• Students should be able to:
• Demonstrate developed writing skills including the ability to work independently and for the student to take responsibility for his or her own learning.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

• Students are expected to work independently, in preparation for each seminar. Seminars provide the opportunity for students to develop and enhance their capacity for legal-problem solving in a particular factual situation, evaluative critical analysis and their appreciation of laws' linkage with broader fields of enquiry.
• Assignments (formative) are used both to develop problem-solving skills, the ability to engage in sustained evaluation of proposed schemes of reforms, and the ability to evaluate the law in a critical and contextual way.
• Staff will provide on-going support and guidance as appropriate.
• Summative assessment comprises one unseen examination of two hours fifteen minutes (including fifteen minutes reading time). Students are given a choice of questions to answer, but the paper is structured in such a way as to assess students on all the specific outcomes. In particular, essay questions are used to assess knowledge, evaluative capacity and an awareness of placing the analysis of law in wider contexts of enquiry.

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

Summative Assessment

Formative Assessment:

2 essays

■ Attendance at all activities marked with this symbol will be monitored. Students who fail to attend these activities, or to complete the summative or formative assessment specified above, will be subject to the procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be required to leave the University