Repository of authoritative, mostly open-access resources for learning, researching, and applying EU law.

Official portals

• Your Europe (practical rights & procedures) – https://europa.eu/youreurope

• EU institutions overview (Europa.eu) – https://european-union.europa.eu

Primary and Secondary Law 

• Treaties currently in force (EUR-Lex collection) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/collection/eu-law/treaties/treaties-force.html

• TEU consolidated (PDF) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/resource.html?format=PDF&uri=cellar:2bf140bf-a3f8-4ab2-b506-fd71826e6da6.0023.02/DOC_1

• TFEU consolidated (PDF) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:12012E/TXT:en:PDF

• Charter of Fundamental Rights (EUR-Lex) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/char_2012/oj/eng

• EUR-Lex (legislation, OJ, preparatory acts) – https://eur-lex.europa.eu

Case law (CJEU)

• InfoCuria case-law database – https://infocuria.curia.europa.eu

• How to read CJEU decisions (Krommendijk and Zuiderveen Borgesius) - http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/p/how-to-read-cjeu-judgments-deciphering.html  

How EU law is made 

• Ordinary Legislative Procedure (Council explainer) – https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/council-eu/decision-making/ordinary-legislative-procedure/

• Ordinary Legislative Procedure overview (European Parliament) – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/olp/en/ordinary-legislative-procedure/overview

• Better Regulation guidelines & toolbox (Commission) – https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/better-regulation/better-regulation-guidelines-and-toolbox_en

Policy & implementation analysis 

• European Parliament Think Tank – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/home

• EPRS Research & Analysis portal – https://www.europarl.europa.eu/at-your-service/en/stay-informed/research-and-analysis

Open learning & training (mostly open access)

• EU Academy (free courses) – https://academy.europa.eu/

• Commission Justice eLearning portal – https://ec.europa.eu/justice/elearning/en/index.html

• Levelling EU Law Knowledge e-module (Utrecht University) – https://teaching-and-learning-collection.sites.uu.nl/project/levelling-european-union-law-knowledge-e-module/ 

• KU Leuven: European Union Law - https://www.edx.org/learn/law/ku-leuven-european-union-law

Library research guides

• University of Amsterdam: European Law research guide – https://uba.uva.nl/en/content/research-groups/law/legal-resources/research-guides/european-law.html

• Columbia Law: EU legal materials guide – https://guides.law.columbia.edu/c.php?g=1221803&p=9087276

Literature fundamentals

• Catherine Barnard, The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms (8th edn, Oxford University Press 2024)- https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-substantive-law-of-the-eu-9780198841336

• Paul Craig and Gráinne de Búrca, EU Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (8th edn, OUP 2024) - https://academic.oup.com/oxford-law-pro/book/59951

• Anthony Arnull and Damian Chalmers (eds), The Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (OUP 2015, Oxford Handbooks Online) - https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28047

• Klaus-Dieter Borchardt, The ABC of European Union Law (Office for Official Publications of the EU, multiple editions) - https://learning-corner.learning.europa.eu/learning-materials/eu-made-easy-18-118-year-olds/abc-eu-law_en