LECTURE 1 (chapter 1 & 7)

Question 1

Law (definition)

Answer 1

Organizes just behavior in a society

Question 2

Substantive law (definition)

Answer 2

Substantive law is composed of legal rules that define the content of just behavior (rules of the game, organizing behavior)

Question 3

Formal law (definition)

Answer 3

Formal law is composed of legal rules that maintain substantive law (consequences for when substantive law is violated, maintaining the intended behavior)

Question 4

Public law (definition)

Answer 4

Law that regulates the relation between a government and its citizens

Question 5

Private law (definition)

Answer 5

law that regulates the relation between citizens or those who act as citizens

Question 6

Supranational law in the European Union (2)

Answer 6

• Law is directly applicable in its members states, each citizen may invoke EU law
• Law is superior to domestic legislation

Question 7

EU law is based on two constitutional acts: (2)

Answer 7

• Treaty on European Union

- Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union

Question 8

Sources of European law (6)

Answer 8

• TEU & TFEU
• EU Regulation
• EU Directive
• EU Framework Decisions
• EU Commission’s soft law
• EU case law

Question 9

Regulation (definition)

Answer 9

A regulation is legislation that applies within the EU without the interference of national parliaments

Question 10

Directive (definition)

Answer 10

A directive is legislation in which a certain goal or principle is adpoted that should be implemented by the EU Member States as they see fit

Question 11

The organizational structure of the EU (5)

Answer 11

• European Council
• European Commission
• Council of Ministers
• European Parliament
• European court of Justice

Question 12

Four freedoms in the EU

Answer 12

• Goods
• Services
• Persons
• Capital