MVV26468K Legal Clinic of Vulnerable Groups Rights

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Romana Jakešová (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Zuzana Durajová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petra Hadwigerová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Denisa Kramářová (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Magdalena Paulusová (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Bc. Alžbeta Králová, Ph.D.
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Andrea Kalivodová, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
MP310Zk Constitutional Law II && MP214Zk Civil Law - general part
Real interest in the specific issue of the subject, inventive cognition skills, high level of analytic skills.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
This course aims to provide students with basic information about vulnerable groups' rights and familiarise them with their (non) fulfilment in practice. We will introduce students to the competences of an ombudsman who fulfils the role of a national preventive mechanism, monitors the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and protect people from the misconduct of the authorities. We will demonstrate the cases from the ombudsman's practice and demonstrate the fulfilment of positive obligations under international treaties and obligations under national law.
Syllabus
  • 1. Convention against torture and its implementation in the Czech environment. What are the cases of ill-treatment in practice and what to do to avoid them?
  • 2. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its implementation in the Czech environment.
  • 3. Accessibility of an environment, services, and information for vulnerable groups.
  • 4. Rights to life in the normal environment - why the institutionalized care is not the right way for vulnerable groups I. (right to live in community, the principle of normality, care provided in the home, family support...).
  • 5. Right to life in the normal environment - why institutionalized care is not the right way for vulnerable groups II.(possibility to live in community - education, employment, leisure activities, and support through social care services and community...)
  • 6. What does child care in institutions look like and how should it evolve?
Literature
    recommended literature
  • The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities : a commentary. Edited by Ilias Bantekas - Michael Ashley Stein - Dēmētrēs Anastasiou. First edition published. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, xciv, 1282. ISBN 9780198810667. info
    not specified
  • ŠIMÁČKOVÁ, Kateřina. K pojmu zranitelnost v českém právním prostředí, zejména v judikatuře Ústavního soudu (The concept of vulnerability in the Czech legal environment, especially in the case law of the Constitutional Court). Jurisprudence. Wolters Kluwer a.s., 2019, vol. 2019, No 5, p. 18-25. ISSN 1802-3843. info
Teaching methods
Solution of model situations, practical examples and case study, class discussion, and presentations by professionals in sectors.
Assessment methods
Regular attendance (with the possibility of one absence), active involvement in class, case study.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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