BT503Z International Protection of Human Rights and Penal Proceedings

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2001
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Monika Bayerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Dalibor Jílek, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Monika Bayerová, Ph.D.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
Knowledge of constitutional law and human rights law, penal law and criminal proceedings.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The objective of the topic is to provide fundamental information regarding the criminal responsibility of individuals in public international law. Teaching comprises the analysis of the different form of acts prohibited by international law and issues connected with the exercise of the jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals. The subject is also to aim at issues concerning the deprivation and limitation of personal freedom as well as interventions with privacy.
Syllabus
  • THE TOPICS FOR THE OPTIONAL COURSE IN HUMAN RIGHTS: 1.Genesis of human rights. Universal and regional protection of human rights. 2. The Czech Republic and its obligations in the sphere of human rights protection. 3. Universal human rights protection, control mechanisms of the human rights protection in accordance with universal instruments. 4. International human rights protection in Europe: the ways of constitutional reception, Council of Europe Human Rights Conventions and control mechanisms pursuant to them. 5. European Convention on Human Rights and its 11th Protocol. European Court for Human Rights and the reasons for its current overloading and possible solutions. European Court for Human Rights and its case-law. 6. Individuals and his criminal responsibility for violation of international obligations. 7. Attempt at establishing the Permanent Criminal Court. 8. First ad hoc international criminal tribunals established after 2nd World War and their characteristics. 9. The 1948 Convention on Genocide-reasons and circumstances of its approval. 10. Current ad hoc international criminal tribunes for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda - and their characteristics. 11. Preparation and approval of the Statut of the Pernament Criminal Court.
Literature
  • ŠTURMA, Pavel. Mezinárodní a evropské kontrolní mechanismy v oblasti lidských práv. Vyd. 1. Praha: C.H. Beck, 1999, viii, 80. ISBN 8071791334. info
  • JÍLEK, Dalibor. Je předloha mezinárodního zločinu v bezvýchodné soutěsce? (Is the pattern of international crime in hopeless trap?). Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Právnická fakulta, 1997, roč. 5, č. 4, p. 603-616. ISSN 1210-9126. info
  • SUDRE, Frédéric. Mezinárodní a evropské právo lidských práv. Translated by Jiří Malenovský. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 364 s. ISBN 8021014857. info
  • JÍLEK, Dalibor. Přemítání o založení Mezinárodního tribunálu pro stíhání osob odpovědných za závažná porušení mezinárodního práva humanitárního spáchaná na území bývalé Jugoslávie od roku 1994 (Establisment of International Tribunal of the prosecution of persons responsible for serious brakage of international humanitarian law committed on the territory of former Yugoslavia until 1991). Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Právnická fakulta, 1996, roč. 4, č. 1, p. 53-65. ISSN 1210-9126. info
  • ŠTURMA, Pavel. Úvod do evropského práva ochrany lidských práv. 1. vyd. Praha: Karlova univerzita, 1994, 130 s. ISBN 80-7066-951-9. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Předmět je ukončen zápočtem, podmínky pro jeho získání budou oznámeny s dostatečným předstihem.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 8 hod. přednášek a 2 hod seminářů za semestr / 8 hrs of lectures and 2 hrs of seminars per semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000.
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