The European Union Legal System

EU TO CAMPUS

EPLO Washington DC

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this new episode of EU to Campus, Fernanda Nicola, Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law and Director of the Program on International Organizations Law and Development answers questions from two of her graduate students, Catrina Lambert-Crittenden and Eric Wenz, explaining the EU legal system. What are the sources and principles of EU law? Can it be compared with U.S. federal law? Who enforces EU law and what are the roles of the European Court of Justice and the domestic courts of the EU Member States? A great 30-minute introduction for EU law and EU studies students in the United States. Learn more about Prof Nicola here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to EU to Campus, a podcast by the European Parliament Liaison Office in Washington, D.C.
0:18.6	I'm Joe Dunn. I'm the director, and the main mission of this office is to foster and build up relations
0:26.6	between the European Parliament and the US Congress.
0:29.6	At the same time, we're also providing information and building up awareness
0:33.6	in the US about the European Union,
0:36.6	especially in relation to democratic values and transatlantic
0:40.1	cooperation. This series of podcast is intended primarily to help you the students out there who are in
0:48.8	the US studying and following European Union affairs. So we hope we can help you by focusing on issues and events
0:56.6	that go into making our union one step at a time, one day at a time.
1:01.9	And to do that, we'll be talking to EU experts, EU parliamentarians and EU scholars.
1:07.9	We hope you'll find it useful. Enjoy listening. Hello, listeners. This is Ryan Maylock from the European Parliament liaison office in Washington, D.C.
1:23.6	I'm happy to be here with you for our sixth episode of EU to campus.
1:28.3	Today we're teaming up with the American University Washington College of Law.
1:33.3	I'm sitting here with Professor Fernanda Nicola, Professor of Law and Director of the American
1:39.3	University's Program on International Organizations, Law and Development. Professor Nicola is specialized in European Union law and development.
1:48.9	Professor Nicola is specialized in European Union law and constitutional law.
1:54.9	He has published many publications and studies and lecture students on EU law matters both here in the US and in Europe.
1:57.7	Joining us here, we have two of Professor Nicola's students, Eric Wenz and Katrina Crittenden.
2:05.6	Thank you all for joining us and accepting our invitation and I'm looking forward to a great lecture on the European Union legal system.
2:26.8	All right.
2:29.6	Thank you, Ryan, for that wonderful introduction.
2:36.3	I think we'll start with the little bit about the nature and character of EU law.
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