Actividades formativas presenciales de carácter obligatorio

Dias: 21, 22, 23 y 24 de octubre.

Universidad de procedencia: Dublin City University (Irlanda)

The course explores the European Union (EU) legal and constitutional order following Russia’s aggression of Ukraine. The return of large-scale conventional warfare on the European continent for the first time since the end of WWII posed an existential challenge for the EU, shattering illusions of perpetual peace and forcing the EU to face the reality of hard power. After contextualizing the EU’s historical development and institutional functioning, the course examines the EU legal responses to the war in Ukraine. It explains how the policy tools developed during this existential crisis led to the consolidation of an EU fiscal capacity and emergence of military capabilities, but highlights also the challenges that remain outstanding. By doing so, the course zooms on the two most important areas of EU law and policy today, namely Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), dealing with foreign affairs and defense, and Economic & Monetary Union (EMU), dealing with fiscal policy. Finally, the course reflects on the prospects for further EU integration – notably EU enlargement to Ukraine and treaty changes – and discusses scenario for transatlantic relations at a time of US disengagement.

The course, which is specifically designed for graduate students, embraces a comparative, interdisciplinary and policy perspective designed to facilitate and enrich learning about European integration and transatlantic relations. The course builds on my 3 books “The EU Constitution in Time of War: Legal Responses to Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine” (Oxford University Press 2025), “EU Fiscal Capacity: Legal Integration after Covid-19 and the War in Ukraine” (Oxford University Press, 2022) and “Brexit and the Future of the EU” (Oxford University Press, 2020) and draws from my policy experience in EU affairs, as advisor to several EU institutions (including the European Commission, Parliament and Eurogroup Presidency) on the future of Europe.

1.2. Curso de Doctorado: "The law of digitization in the EU (with a special focus on health administrative law in the European Administrative Union)

Impartido por Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor.

Dias: 10, 11,12, 17, 18, 19 y 20 de Noviembre

Universitat de procedència: Universität Heidelberg (Alemania)

Data and information serve as the basis for administrative action and administrative decisions. The development of the administration into an information and communication network means that public authorities can increasingly profile themselves as users of the growing availability of data, both as an opportunity and as a prerequisite for their actions and decisions. In this role, public authorities are addressees of data protection regulations, as they process personal data as controllers or processors. On the one hand, the application of data protection provisions requires organizational measures, and on the other hand, the general data protection regulation of the EU was recently expanded to include sector-specific regulations on the processing of personal data. In particular, these new, diverse EU legal requirements create new administrative actors who are entrusted with various legal options and obligations for processing personal data in compliance with data protection law.

In addition, the administrative actors are not only the addressees of data protection regulations, but also monitor whether private bodies comply with data protection regulations. The introduction of these new players represents both a challenge for the increase in the number of authorities and supervisory structures as well as a development potential for the further differentiation of cooperation networks in the European administrative network. Their structuring, the definition and delimitation of their responsibilities, powers, tasks and cooperation is a complex issue of administrative organization. Cross-border networking and cooperation between administrative authorities is at the heart of the creation of European data spaces.

The course will examine these issues using the example of recent developments in European legislation on digitalization with a particular focus on the healthcare sector. The course invites students who are interested in various legal disciplines. In addition to classic administrative law topics such as administrative organization law, criminal law and international law references will also be examined. The course material will be developed specifically for the course and made available at the beginning of the lecture.