LLM in International and European Law 2020/21 Dr hab. Anna Śledzińska-Simon
1. Constitution-making and constitutional amendments 2. Primacy of EU law v. supremacy of national constitutions 3. Sources of EU law
4. Sources of international human rights law 5. Rule of law as the core value in the EU
6. Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
7. European Convention of Human Rights and its impact on domestic legal systems 8. Separation of powers
9. Executive power 10. Legislative power
11. Systems of government: presidentialism, semi-presidentialism and parliamentarism
12. Federal/unitary states v. the right to seccession 13. Constitutional courts and judicial review
14. Constitutional identity and ultra vires review in the EU 15. Limitations of human rights
16. Rights of EU citizens
17. Responsibility to protect in international law
18. The role of the Venice Commission in the Council of Europe 19. Standards of judicial independence in the Council of Europe 20. Human dignity – meaning and interpretation in selected case-law
21. Prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment 22. Women’s rights as human rights – sources, realization
23. Minority rights / group rights protection in the Council of Europe 24. Populism as a challenge to human rights.
25. Referendum as a form of direct democracy 26. Judicial dialogues and constitutional borrowing 27. Transitional justice
28. Emergency powers
29. Horizontal protection of human rights 30. Current problems with privacy protection
