PrF:MVV4068K Comparative Legal Studies - Course Information
MVV4068K Comparative Legal Studies
Faculty of LawSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. JUDr. Filip Křepelka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
PD Dr. Attila Vincze, LL.M. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. Filip Křepelka, Ph.D.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Jana Dopitová
Supplier department: Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law - Prerequisites (in Czech)
- ( MP113Zk Theory of Law I - seminar && MP220K Theory of Law II ) || TYP_STUDIA ( D )
- 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
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- Course objectives
- The course shall enable understanding of comparative law, structures and basic notions of continental and anglo-American laws.
- Learning outcomes
- Students shall be capable to understand methods of comparative law, write comparative study, understand differences between continental and common law.
- Syllabus
- I. Theory and methods of comparative law
- /1/ Aim and ambit of comparative law, theoretical and practical value of legal comparison
- /2/ Methods of comparative law, functional method and its critique. Legal borrowing.
- /3/ Legal culture, macro-comparison
- II. Civil vs. common law
- /4/ Civil law vs. common law I: legal sources
- /5/ Civil law vs. common law, II: legal professions, education judiciary
- /6/ 2nd view: two archetypes of law?
- III. Further aspects
- /7/ Law and language
- /8/ Religion, ideology, culture, state and law
- /9/ Rule of Law, Rechtstaat?
- /10/ International legal integration from a comparative perspective,
- IV. Students’ contribution
- /11/ Colloquium I. – Presentations
- /12/ Colloquium II. – Presentations
- Literature
- Teaching methods
- Lecture, debate.
- Assessment methods
- Writing Comparative analysis and its debate.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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