European Union Law
The aim of the course is to offer a good knowledge of European Union Law as a basis for further studies on European integration. Therefore rather than specializing on specific policies of the EU (such as competition, external policy, consumer protection etc.) it subjects the fundamentals of the EU. Thus it shall include both institutional and substantive aspects of EU Law, i.e. origins, historical evolution, institutions and competences of the EU, legislative procedures and sources of EU law, principles governing the relationship between national law and EU Law; main aspects of free movement of goods, workers, services and capital. Within the discussions of the substantive law, the students shall also be introduced with the area of freedom, security and justice also to prepare them for the second course of the proposed Module on European and International Migration Law. Weekly Courses are available @ https://www.youtube.com/user/BilkentUniversitesi Students who successfully pass this course and the course on European and International Migration Law shall be given a Jean-Monnet Certificate by Bilkent University.
European and International Migration Law
The course is mainly designed to cover both international and European aspects of legal and irregular migration, integration, readmission and return. During the first five weeks, international aspects of migration shall be discussed including key concepts of migration, its types, legal and irregular migration, migrant, refugee, international protection, sources of migration law, key international aspects of legal and irregular migration as well as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Then the second part of the course shall concentrate on the rights of foreigners arising from EU law, depending on their status in the EU member states, i.e. as legal or irregular migrants. As such, rights of Turkish migrants under Ankara Agreement and related decisions of the Association Council, as well as the obligations arising from the readmission agreement between the EU and Turkey, visa liberalization process and the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey shall also be covered. Courses shall be available @ https://www.youtube.com/user/BilkentUniversitesi Students who successfully pass this course and the course on European and International Migration Law shall be given a Jean-Monnet Certificate by Bilkent University.
