Name of Lecturer: Prof. dr. Saulius Arlauskas tfk@mruni.lt

European Administrative Law
Name of Lecturer: Lect. Ieva Deviatnikovaitė
Faculty: Faculty of Law
Department, Contact Details: Department of administrative law and procedure,
IEVA
Language of instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Bachelor
Required prerequisites: None
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit 1 . A student will know/will be able:
1. To demonstrate skills to crystallize features of administrative legal
relationships;
2. To demonstrate knowledge on public administration entities system in
different European countries;
3. To demonstrate knowledge on the EU public administration bodies’ system
and their relationship with the national public entities;
4. To identify administrative judicial system in the various European countries
and to know European administrative procedure;
5. Identify the perspectives of European administrative law
ECTS credits: 6
Contact hours per week: 3
Semester: Autumn
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: Lectures and seminars
Assessment methods and Criteria: Examination
Course content: (up to 10 sentences)
The course will be based on the comparison of administrative law of various states
(the UK, France, Central and Eastern European countries, and the USA). We will
speak about one of the latest phenomenons – the European administrative law:
leading principles; administrative powers in the EU – the European Council, the
Council (of Ministers), the European Commission, Agencies; European administrative
bodies’ interaction with the national public bodies; ECJ impact to the member states.
The lectures are concentrated on the following topics: public interest; administrative
law in general; system and functions of the executive institutions; system, structure,
and activity spheres of the public administration institution; control and supervision of
the public administration institutions; public administration methods; public
administration forms: administrative acts, administrative contracts, and administrative
norms. Also students will be familiarized with the administrative justice system,
Members states’ administrative courts’ systems, the jurisdiction of the administrative
courts according to the nationality of the students, ECJ prejudicial decision.
Topics can be tailored to suit individual learner’s needs.
Reading list:
1. Barnett, Hilaire. Constitutional & administrative law . Taylor & Francis
group, 2006.
2. Bailey, Stephen Henry Cases, materials and commentary on administrative
law London : Sweet & Maxwell , 2005.
3. Warren, Kenneth F. Administrative law. St. Paul (Minnesota): West
Publishing, 1988
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