MV940K European Criminal Law

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Jaroslav Fenyk, Ph.D., DSc., Univ. Priv. Prof. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Věra Kalvodová, Dr. (lecturer)
JUDr. Přemysl Polák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Jaroslav Fenyk, Ph.D., DSc., Univ. Priv. Prof.
Department of Criminal Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Jana Dopitová
Supplier department: Department of Criminal Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
MP804Zk Criminal Law III
Criminal law I can be suitable prerequisition
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 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The basic aim of this subject is the explanation of historical development, aims and methods of europeisation of criminal law Council of Europe ane European Union). Presentations will be focused on analysis of law instruments of europeisation in comparison with international public law environment. At the end of the course students will find view of the European Criminal Law, will be able to orient in this legal system, analyse legal instruments and make deductions based on acquired knowledge about these legal institutions and instruments. New part of course will be devoted to The Office of European Public Prosecutor within EU member states and in The Czech Republic till the end of Year 2020 incl. amendments to CPC.
Learning outcomes
Students will be oriented in fundamental institutes of international co-operation in criminal matters as to trihr countriea as within EU. At the same time they will be able to appoint and to explain influences in criminal law within CE and EU. They will know key decisions of the European Court for Human Rights and the European Court of Justice in criminal law and procedure environment.
Syllabus
  • Legal subjectivity of EC and legal character of EU, impact of the Lisbon Treaty to criminal law and procedure od member states European law and criminal law European law and criminal procedure and international cooperation in criminal matters Jurisprudence of ECHR and ECJ and its impacts on criminal law Documents of Council of Europe in criminal law Impact of decisions of ECHR on criminal law Europol, Eurojust, European Judicial Network, European Public Prosecutor.
Literature
    required literature
  • Zákon o mezinárodní justiční spolupráci ve věcech trestních : komentář. Edited by Miroslav Kubíček - Přemysl Polák. Vyd. 1. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2014, xxxii, 106. ISBN 9788074783890. info
  • FENYK, Jaroslav and Ján SVÁK. Europeizace trestního práva (Europeisation of Criminal Law). 1. vydání. Bratislava: Bratislavská vysoká škola práva, 2008, 229 pp. ISBN 978-80-88931-88-1. info
  • FENYK, Jaroslav. European Public Prosecutor - A Step towards Mutual Recognition, or Establishment of European Criminal Justice? In Czech yearbook of international law - Second Decade Ahead: Tracing the Global Crisis 2010. 1. vydání. New York: Juris Publishing, Inc., 2010, p. 187-205. ISBN 978-1-57823-272-7. info
    recommended literature
  • KRATOCHVÍL, Vladimír. České trestní právo hmotné a procesní v evropském právním prostředí (The Czech Criminal Law and Criminal Process Law in the european legal surround). Brno: Masarykova univerzita; Právnická fakulta, 2009, 184 pp. Spisy Právnické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity AUBI. ISBN 978-80-210-4982-6. info
  • TOMÁŠEK, Michal. Europeizace trestního práva. Praha: Linde, 2009, 459 s. ISBN 9788072017379. info
Teaching methods
The lectures are combine with seminars. Lectures are prepared in power point presentation that students receive in electronic version for theirs need after presentation. Seminars are interactive. It means that concrete aspects of criminal law are reflected to EU pillar structure and jurisprudence of European Court of Justice is presented and analysed in cooperation teacher - students. Co-operation with an external lecturer - public prosecutor of SPPO within presentation and seminar lecture.
Assessment methods
Education will be conducted by presentations and seminars, final coloquium (written essay from the presentations and seminars content).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2024, recent)
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