Contract Teaching
- Specialisation Indirect Taxes
- Premaster Fiscal Law
- European and National Administrative Law: bridging
- Back to the Basics Programme
- EU Law: Foundations – The Institutional Functionin
European and National Administrative Law: bridging two worlds
Project Manager
Mariolina Eliantonio and Chris Backes
Abstract
Most of European law can be qualified as administrative law and has to be applied and enforced with national administrative law instruments. Despite this close integration, education in European law and national administrative law has remained in separate realms, thereby neglecting the interaction between these areas. The proposed Jean Monnet module will be a Bachelor course that fills this gap between the traditional courses of EC law and those of national administrative law. The course seeks to provide an in-depth analysis of both the Community and the national component of the process of implementation and adjudication of Community law, and of their mechanisms of interaction and influence. The course will be offered to students following law, political sciences and health sciences bachelors.
At the end of this course, the students are expected to have a thorough knowledge of the administrative law of the European Union and of the influence of European law on the administrative law of the Member States.
With this course, the students’ understanding of how European law works in practice and how national administrative law is shaped by European law will be enhanced.
Subsidizer
European Commission
Subsidy
€ 21.000
Duration
1/9/2009 - 31/8/2014
EU Law: Foundations – The Institutional Functioning of the EU
Researcher
A.P. van der Mei
Abstract
The module “EU Law: Foundations – The Institutional Functioning of the EU” has a triple purpose.
1. To provide students thorough knowledge and understanding of the legal-constitutional foundations of the EU and its institutions in the “Post-Lisbon era”. This objective is achieved by self-study, lectures given by staff members and small-size tutorial meetings.
2. To give students a greater insight in the functioning of the EU and its institutions in (political) practice (“what is truly going on in Brussels and Luxembourg?”), so as to give them a better understanding as well as to prepare them better for their future careers. This goal will be pursued by a series of lectures addressing the topics from a practical and political sciences perspective. The option is left open to ask external speakers (EU law practitioners) to give one or two of these lectures.
3. To improve students’ presentation, debating, writing and organizational skills. This will be achieved by participation in the tutorial groups and by a one-day seminar to be organized by students themselves (with the help of staff members). Half of the tutorials will be devoted to the solving of case studies; the other half will involve simulation games (e.g. for decision-making) and moot court sessions. During the seminar students will have to present papers, act as chair leading the discussions, comment on each others papers, etc. The best papers will be compiled and published as an edited volume on the Faculty’s website. The best papers will be submitted for admission in the Maastricht Faculty of Law Working Papers.
Subsidizer
Education Audovidual and Culltural Executive Agency, Jean Monnet Programme, Key Activity 1
Subsidy
€ 24.000
Period
2010-2012
Indirect taxes specialisation
Project manager
The Department of Tax law (Arthur Denie)
A separate specialisation in the field of VAT, customs and duties is offered within the tax law master's programme. This specialisation is a collaboration between Maastricht University, Tilburg University and VU University Amsterdam. Students and course participants of all three universities will take one block. The master's thesis will also need to be focussed on indirect taxes. This project is sponsored by the Fonds Indirect Tax (Indirect Tax Fund), in which the Dutch tax authorities and the business world participate in order to increase the number of specialised graduates.
Subsidizer
Fonds Indirect Tax
Subsidy
€262,500
Period
2008–2012
Tax law pre-master's programme
Project manager
The Department of Tax Law (Raymond Luja/Paul Dekkers)
Abstract
At the request of PwC Nederland, a re-training programme will be offered to graduated academics/non-lawyers who would like to follow the tax law master's programme. This programme will prepare participants for the six exam components which are part of the regular entrance exam for the master's programme. These components are: wage tax, income tax, corporate tax, international tax law, private law (contract law, property law, company law) and business economics. Unlike the entrance exam itself and for the time being, the programme is available exclusively for course participants selected and employed by PwC.
Subsidizer
PwC Nederland
Subsidy
€252,500
Period
2009–2011
Back to the Basics Programme
Projectteam
Mariolina Eliantonio (from the Public Law Department) and
Karolina Pomorska (from FaSoS, Department of Politics)
Programme name
the ‘Back to Basics’ programme
Project Title
‘Why European law is not boring and European politics is not only about milk quotas: an experiment on interdisciplinary teaching’
Abstract
This project aims at bringing European Law School and European Studies students in contact with each other’s worlds. The programme will be made of 1) lectures on negotiations and decision-making in the European institutions (both from a legal and political perspective); 2) two interactive simulations games, one having as subject matter the proposal for a legislative measure (e.g. a Directive) and one concerning the decision of the EU foreign action in a specific scenario. The students will represent the interests of the Members States and the European institutions in the decision-making process; 3) a concluding trip to Campus Brussels in order to simulate the process at the presence of experienced EU officials who would comment on the students’ performances.
Subsidizer
Maastricht University
Subsidy
Each € 2.500
