Project
This project is designed to provide clear information about the rights and obligations attendant on EU freedom of movement. The project focuses on three key aspects associated with EU free movement of persons:
1. The free movement of workers (including derogations)
2. The free movement of citizens and family members (including derogations)
3. The free movement of third country nationals (non-EU) (including derogations)
This project will provide a clear and accessible information leaflet, directed towards students and citizens, as well as an informational presentation to the Community Law Programme in Week 10 of the Spring Semester. All information will be user friendly and jargon free.
The free movement of persons is a topic that most people can relate to: students can avail of free movement for a summer job or to go on Erasmus; workers can move to another Member State to avail of job opportunities there. Traditionally, free movement was associated with those that were economically active, those that were workers (providing a service, in return for renumeration, under the direction of another). In 1993, the Treaty on European Union (TEU), or the Maastricht Treaty, incorporated the concept of Citizenship into the Treaty basis. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) replicates the provisions on Citizenship as well as the free movement of worker provisions, Article 45-48 TFEU. Free movement entails the free movement of workers, the non-economically active and the families of the EU worker/citizen.
This project explains exactly how EU citizenship works in a clear and jargon free way.
UL Access Office
Community Law and Mediation Limerick
Designers’ Ink
The students will learn the basics of designing a brochure from a Graphic Designer and the project leader will monitor the contents. The attendees at the Community Law Programme will be asked for their feedback on the leaflet.
Learning
The EU Law project will divide the students into three groups:
• The free movement of workers (including derogations)
• The free movement of citizens and family members (including derogations)
• The free movement of third country nationals (non-EU) (including derogations)
Student work will comprise a research paper (week 6), designed for a lawyer who needs to brush up on EU law. All groups will receive feedback on this paper to help them condense the information into a presentation and a pamphlet. Following a trial presentation (week 9), each group will present their explication of EU citizenship law to the Community Law Programme (week 10). The three groups will meet with a graphic designer who will give them a talk on designing a leaflet.
This practical work enables students to develop clinical lawyering skills and, more specifically, to prepare students to be able to deal with queries either as a lawyer or in public office relating to free movement within the EU. Groups will present their work both academically and professionally, so as to inform individuals as to how they can assert their rights under the free movement of person’s provisions. The production of a community oriented information booklet provides students with an opportunity to develop jargon-free and user friendly ways of delivering legal advice, as well as affording them the opportunity to work with graphic designers in design and delivery of a community information booklet.
Advanced Lawyering 2 is a core module offered to Law Plus students in Year 4. Students have the option of working in a group project or undertaking a research article on their own.
Each group will be required to do the following:
(1) To draft a research paper designed to guide a lawyer that needs to provide up to date information on the relevant category under free movement of person’s provisions (2000 words, 20%)
(2) To give a presentation (20 mins) to the public (Community Law Programme) on the relevant category under the free movement of persons (50%) and
(3) To design an information leaflet/pamphlet (1000 words, 30%)
Research
The groups draft a research paper designed to guide a lawyer that needs to provide up to date information on the relevant category under free movement of person’s provisions (2000 words, 20%).
The project gives students more of an insight into what Roscoe Pound referred to as “law in action”, as opposed to “law in books”. It will help students to understand the extent to which EU Law affects their everyday lives. This Lawyering Project encompasses active learning and cooperative learning. It will teach students to take individual responsibility and be able to work through issues that may occur in a group setting, including one person not putting in the work or the group finding it hard to agree a time to meet.
The research paper will be evaluated on the following:
• quality of research - content, originality, thoroughness, appropriateness, accuracy, command of the subject matter, immediacy and relevance
• use of sources
• coherence of arrangement
• expression
• presentation
• diligence in approach
• organisation
• adherence to word limits