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SOC015 Czech Legal Culture

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2012

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miloš Večeřa, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Mgr. Martin Škop, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Danuše Spáčilová (assistant)

Supervisor

doc. JUDr. Radim Polčák, Ph.D.
Institute of Law and Technology - Faculty of Law
Contact Person: JUDr. Ing. Michal Radvan, Ph.D.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Institute of Law and Technology - Faculty of Law

Prerequisites

There are no special requirements or prerequisites. The course is suitable also for students of non-legal disciplines.

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Multidisciplinary studies (programme PrF, KOS)
• Multidisciplinary studies (programme CST, KOS)
• Multidisciplinary studies at Faculty of Law (programme CST, KOS)

Course objectives

At the end of the course, the students should be able to: - understand the historical, political and social foundations of the Czech Law
- to understand and analyze the structure and system of the Czech Law
- to understand and analyze the structure of the Czech Judiciary
- to understand and analyze the structure of Czech legal professions
- to critically compare Czech legal system with their European and Common-law counterparts

Syllabus

• 1. Introduction to the Czech legal culture
• 2. History and organization of the Czech Republic
• 3. Czech system of law
• 4. Czech constitutional order
• 5. Czech sources of law and relations to international law
• 6. System of Czech courts
• 7. Excursion to the Constitutional Court
• 8. Excursion to the Supreme Administrative Court
• 9. Contemporary issues in the Czech judiciary
• 10. Contemporary issues in Czech legal philosophy
• 11. Media and the Czech law
• 12. Czech law in evolving society (arts, politics)

Literature

• veškerá studijní literatura bude studentům poskytnuta prostřednictvím interaktivní osnovy / all readings will be provided within the interactive syllabus

Teaching methods

Interactive seminars - at the the beginning of each seminar, students present their short comparative reports. The outcomes of these reports are then confronted with explanation and analysis of the Czech legal system.

Assessment methods

Credits are awarded upon active in-class participation (30%) and elaborating of 9 comparative reports (70%).

Language in which the course is taught

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.

The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014.

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