States, Markets and European Integration

Full course description

The main objective of this course is to provide students with insight in the spectrum of the sciences, within which legal science is only one of the many members. The process of European integration is used as a central theme by means of which this main objective is pursued.  The acquisition of rudimentary non-legal knowledge about European integration is therefore a secondary objective.

Students will be introduced to the history of European (dis)integration, theories that aim to explain or justify the process of integration, relevant aspects of the philosophy of science and of economics, social ontology and basic legal concepts, and relevant aspects of evolutionary and social psychology.