This programme provides you with a unique perspective on politics and law in Europe. It focuses on the domestic political system of individual states in Eastern and Western Europe, institutions and policy-making process in the different areas of EU law, and the reform of the EU's constitutional and regulatory architecture. The programme draws on the established expertise in European politics, comparative politics, and international politics in the Department of Politics, and the established expertise in European public law and European legal studies in the School of Law. You will be able to select options from other departments within the Faculty of Law, Business & Social Sciences, including Central & East European Studies, Social & Economic History, Economics and Sociology.
Content
Core courses
* EU public law
* Comparative European politics
* Qualitative methods.
Optional courses
In addition to the three core courses, you must take three optional courses, which include:
Department of Politics
* Comparative political institutions
* Democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe
* EU in international politics and development
* Globalisation and European integration
* Freedom of expression
* Human rights and global politics
* International cooperation
* Political legitimacy.
School of Law
* Principles and policy of EU discrimination law
* Freedom security and justice in the EU
* European human rights law.
Department of Economic & Social History
* European Integration since 1945.
Department of Central & East European Studies
* Changing state and society in Central Europe
* Globalisation and the new security agenda in Central and Eastern Europe.
A final project or dissertation will consist of one work of approximately 12-15,000 words, devoted to an agreed subject.