PrF:MVV012468K Critical Thinking for Lawyers - Course Information
MVV012468K Critical Thinking for Lawyers
Faculty of LawSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. JUDr. Tomáš Sobek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. JUDr. Tomáš Sobek, Ph.D.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law - Prerequisites
- The only requirements are the knowledge of English and the ability to think critically.
- 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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- Main objectives can be summarized as follows:
- to map the recent approaches to legal thinking, namely those of critical nature
- to analyze and understand the methodology of legal realism
- to analyze and understand the methodology of legal marxism
- to analyze and understand the methodology of law and economics
- to discuss the relations of law and external influences like economics, politics, technology etc.
- to discuss recent problems in continental and American judiciary - Learning outcomes
- Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
understand purpose and role of critical legal thinking in recent jurisprudence
critically assess concepts of legal realism
critically assess concepts of legal marxism
critically assess concepts of CLS (critical legal studies)
critically assess concepts of law and economic
critically assess concepts of legal moralism - Syllabus
- - introduction, method, assignments
- - legal marxism
- - law and economics
- - legal realism
- - critical legal studies
- - legal moralism
- - information critique of law
- - critique of legal language
- - legal anarchism
- - workshops dedicated to recent issues of critical legal thinking
- Literature
- Doplňující texty ke studiu budou poskytnuty prostřednictvím IS
- ALEXY, Robert. A theory of legal argumentation : the theory of rational discourse as theory of legal justification. Translated by Neil MacCormick - Ruth Adler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, xiii, 323. ISBN 0198255039. info
- DWORKIN, Ronald M. Law's empire. London: Fontana Press, 1986, 470 s. ISBN 0-00-686028-1. info
- DWORKIN, Ronald M. Taking rights seriously. 3. print. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977, xv, 295 s. ISBN 0-674-86710-6. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures, seminars, e-learning application, workshops with practicing professionals
- Assessment methods
- credits will be awarded upon successful completion of an in-class closed-bood written test consisting of 2 essays
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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