European Law & Human Rights in Comparative Perspective

The course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the legal regime of the European Union (EU), including its supranational system of human rights protection, in comparative perspective with the United States (US). The course covers the most important areas of EU law, overviewing both the EU's constitutional framework and its core substantive contents, through the comparative prism of the US federal experience. To this end, the course examines the EU's normative and economic constitutions and explores a number of recent unprecedented constitutional developments, including Brexit, the rule of law crisis and Covid-19.