Teaching

This course, taught by Christine Reh, analyses the European Union’s role in global politics, answering the question: Why does the Union not respond more quickly, more coherently and more effectively across the world’s multiple crises?

This course, taught by Markus Jachtenfuchs and Ronny Patz, gives students an introduction to global politics, focusing on how states approach governance problems that they cannot solve alone, and on the international institutions created to provide public goods.

This course, taught by Mark Dawson and Ana Bobic, introduces the core topics of EU law within the system of EU governance and politics of the 2020s with a focus on EU law's main building blocks: institutions, primacy, internal market, citizenship and fundamental rights.

This course, taught by Mark Dawson, Pierre Thielboerger, Martijn van den Brink and Dana Schmalz, explores the relationship between law and governance, providing course participants with an introduction into legal decision-making, core legal skills, and the role of law and courts in the political system.

This course, taught by Mark Dawson, aims to unpack EU governance in three ways: the essential foundations of EU governance, the operation of EU governance and a critical discussion on the EU's future direction and legitimacy. 

This course, taught by Christine Reh and Jesse Scott (Agora Energiewende), introduces students to the theory and practice of influencing public policy, with a focus on the EU proposal for a “European Green Deal” to address climate change and sustainable economic growth. 

This course, taught by Ana Bobić, provided a theoretical background to judicial interactions in the EU and to address the rule of law backsliding that the EU is currently facing using theories of federalism and constitutional pluralism.

In this course, taught by Anke Hassel and Bruno Palier (Sciences Po), the transformative changes faced by welfare states over the last three decades are analysed to better understand the advanced welfare state and capitalist political economies and the institutions governing them. 

This course, taught by Anke Hassel, aims to give students an introduction to public policy, policy analysis and the policy process using examples from labour market and employment policies.

This course, taught by Marta Migliorati, focuses on public policymaking in the EU, with a focus on actors in charge of policymaking and the different stages of policy process - from policy formulation to lawmaking and implementation. 

This course, taught by Markus Jachtenfuchs, focuses on the EU as a global economic power and an institution which has been haunted by existential crises and is politically, economically and legally reshaping its member states to an unprecedented extent.

This course, taught by Christian Freudlsperger, reflects on how liberal representative regimes are facing challenges that question their foundations, their legitimacy and their institutions to analyse the transformations of contemporary democratic institutions and forms of political participation.