I'm surprised by a lot of the responses on here. We took EU in first year and I loved it!
I don't know if it's just taught really well at my university, or the staff were particularly engaging or they dumbed the module down, but I found EU Law the easiest module I took this year. For the first half term, I really struggled to understand the concept of it and really neglected it, but I used reading week to get up to speed with it and it clicked very quickly. In the end I found it very straight forward and not boring at all! I think people can overcomplicate it, it's actually very straight forward when you understand the main reasons FOR EU law and
where Union law seems to be going.To help you, the topics we covered were:
-Supremacy of Union law
-Direct, indirect and horizontal effect of Union law
- Free movement of goods and services
- Free movement of workers
-Citizenship
-Fundamental rights of EU citizens (particularly important since the Charter was given binding effect by the Lisbon Treaty)
-Judicial Review of EU Law (didn't really bother revising that, it was quite boring)
-Member State liability (very easy)
To help me revise, I avoided those nutshell books, but found a kind of nice introductory book called 'Understanding European Union law' by Karen Davies.
I will miss EU law, but I am taking an EU-heavy module next year