PrF:BI501K Legal Databases and IS - Course Information
BI501K Legal Databases and Information Systems
Faculty of LawAutumn 2011
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Kateřina Drábková (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Ing. Libor Kyncl, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Matěj Myška, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Bc. Adam Ptašnik, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Danuše Spáčilová (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Bc. Jaromír Šavelka, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- JUDr. Danuše Spáčilová
Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Věra Šilingrová - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- BI501K/01: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Wed 11:10–12:40 020, D. Spáčilová
BI501K/02: No timetable has been entered into IS. D. Spáčilová - Prerequisites
- Basic computer literacy.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Public Administration Informatics (programme FI, B-AP)
- Course objectives
- The course aims to develop awareness about methods of searching for legal documents in libraries, electronic databases, automated systems and internet portals. Students that pass the course shall be able to:
-handle the Czech and European legal information resources;
-to be able to find and evaluate sources of information necessary for his/her further study
-to be able to draw up a recherche on selected topic
-to be able to cite information sources properly
- find laws, regulations and other legal documents using ASPI, Codexis and Beck-online systems
- work with other legal information systems
- evaluate a creditibility and validity of the information
- solve basic legal problems using the legal information systems - Syllabus
- Sources of information and information institutions. Electronic libraries, on-line catalogues, legal databases. Researching, citation rules, examples of citing legal documents.
- History of local and international legal information systems.
- Legal texts and legal documents. Czech law and historici and recent publication platforms. Contents of legal information systems.
- General conditions of searching legal information systems. Conditions for queries. Fulltext searches.
- Working with researched documents, links, hypertext links. Further possibilities of legal information systems – bookmarks, notes, own databases, printing.
- Complete presentation of systems ASPI, Codexis a Beck-online, Introduction to LexGalaxy, Konzultant, EPIS.
- Further resources and aids for legal practice. Comparison of systems according to the mass of information on Czech and European law, legal literature and case-law. Search for case-law in legal information systems and on the internet, Eur-Lex.
- Search tools on the internet, legal portals. Information systems of the public administration, registries.
- Literature
- required literature
- ŠAVELKA, Jaromír, Matěj MYŠKA, Adam PTAŠNIK and Danuše SPÁČILOVÁ. Právní informační systémy (Legal information systems). Vyd. 1. Brno: Tribun EU, 2011, 259 pp. ISBN 978-80-7399-248-4. info
- recommended literature
- PTAŠNIK, Adam. Automatizované zpracování právních textů. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Key Publishing, 2007, 168 s. ISBN 9788087071472. info
- Teaching methods
- Practice in PC room, e-learning application, presentations practitioners.
- Assessment methods
- The course is concluded by a colloquium. Student is required to complete 6 interactive tasks before he/she is allowed to complete the colloquium. The colloquium itself comprises of elaboration and presentation of a recherche on a selected topic.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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