Mercosul Law II

Recommended Prerequisites

Portuguese and Brazilian Constitutional Law; Public International Law and EU Law I and II; full dominion over Portuguese, Spanish and English Language.

Teaching Methods

The teacher will address orally the theoretical foundations, giving way to the possibility of submission of projects (either individual or in groups) of written submissions, that may be presented orally in class.

Learning Outcomes

The discipline provides for a comparative law approach of Mercosul Law, but comparing with the EU legal order, hifghlighting the achieved outcomes and the ares in which the Mercosul is still in a different phase or model.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Mercosul LAw II

Part I -A comparative approach of Mercosul vis-à-vis the EU and WTO

1) Mercosul as a International Organisation: the incorporation of Mercosul treaties and acts in the International and Member States legal orders

2) The legal personality of Mercosul

3) Mercosul and the EU: questions of competence and contents

4) The resolution of commercial confilcts in the world trade and in and with Mercosul

5) The freedoms of circulation, citizenship and Mercosul

6) Competiton LAw, Mercosul and the European Union

7) Agriculture, Mercosul and the EU

8) Human Rights, fundamental rights and Mercosul

Part II - Procedural Law of Mercosul: the TPR.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Ana Cristina Paulo Pereira, Direito Institucional e Material do Mercosul, 2005

Elisabeth Accioly, Sistema de solução de controvérsias em Blocos Econômicos

Miguel Gorjão-Henriques, Direito da União, Almedina, Coimbra, 9.ª ed., 2018.

Luís Antonio Velasco San Pedro (org.), Mercosur y Union Europea: Dos modelos de integracion economica, Lex Nova, 1998

Luís Olavo Baptista, O Mercosul  suas instituições e Ordenamento Jurídico, 1998

Elisa de Sousa Ribeiro (coord.), Direito do Mercosul, Curitiba, 2013

LAfayette Pozzoli, Direito Comunitário Europeu - uma perspectiva para a América Latina, Editora Método, São Paulo, 2003

Cristiane Helena de Paula Lima, A internalização das normas jurídicas do Mercosul no Brasil: um contributo para a segurança jurídica na Integração da América do Sul, disponível em htttp://centrodireitointernacional.com.br/static/revistaeletronica/volume9/arquivos_pdf/sumario

RSTPR - Revista da Secretaria do Tribunal Permanente de Revisão, www.revistastpr.com.