MV728Z Legal Clinic of Refugee Law

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2004
Extent and Intensity
1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Dalibor Jílek, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marina Melkonjan (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Renáta Klečková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. JUDr. David Kosař, Ph.D., LL.M., J. S. D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Dalibor Jílek, CSc.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Mgr. Jana Lautrbachová
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MV728Z/01: each odd Thursday 16:40–18:10 258, D. Jílek
MV728Z/02: No timetable has been entered into IS.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the general part of public international law and domestic branches of public order (constitutional law and administrative law).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25
Course objectives
Freedom of movement is one of milestones of refugee law but in this context it is manifested as the harsh deformation. Since the movement should be a reflection of the free decision and not an enforced act of an individual who flees involuntarily beyond the borders of his country of origin. The reasons for the enforced departure can be seen in the persecution as the absence of de iure or de facto protection of the state and the existence of serious human rights violations as well as the war and disasters. International and domestic law offer different forms of protection: asylum and temporary protection. The asylum as an authoritative act of the state can be of territorial, diplomatic or political forms while the temporary protection is limited in time and structure (residence, health care, shelter and boarding, or work permit) because it enables minimum existence in the territory of the receiving state. The asylum provides security against refoulement, deportation, it provides the protection against the personal jurisdiction of the country of origin but also the right to permanent residence with other benefits. The asylum in the sense of the human right, as regulated in 1969 American Convention on Human Rights, limits the discretion of the state and imposes an obligation of providing international protection if the conditions for the rule are met. The course can mediate the multicultural world in its richness but also show the problems of integrating and assimilating recognised asylum-seekers. Moreover, it reveals different interpretation of the key provisions under the 1951 Geneva Convention and the 1967 New York Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees with the aim of provoking critical legal reasoning and the ability to find adequate interpretation.
Syllabus
  • THE TOPICS FOR THE SPECIAL PART OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LAW: 1. The legal concept of "terra nullus" in the course of time and the demand resulting from ocular, symbolic and effective occupation, uti possidetis, geographical continuity, geological contiguity, etc. State territory, territorial sovereignty and administration in international judicature. 2. Characteristic features of the modern law of the sea. Symbiosis of national and international regimes (internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, archipelagic states, the exclusive economic zone, the territorial shelf, the high seas as res communis omnium and the international sea-bed as the common heritage of mankind). 3. Bifocal point of view at the character and legal regime of the Antarctic in the consideration of two experts. 4. Different forms of diplomacy, the basics of diplomacy law, diplomatic privileges and immunities and the personal, territorial, temporal and material scope of applicability. 5. State nationality and its connection with international law. Understanding nationality from the human rights point of view. The right to have, change and not to be arbitrarily deprived of nationality. 6. Gradual and fast changes of international humanitarian law and its current reflection, its principles as normative vectors. THE TOPICS FOR THE OPTIONAL COURSE IN INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE LAW: 1. Pluralism of forms of asylum in domestic and international law. Asylum as the freedom against persecution. Conflicts between the asylum in the competence of the state (diplomatic, territorial and political) and the asylum as the right of an individual. 2. 1951 Geneva Convention and 1967 New York Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and their temporal, territorial and material scope of applicability. 3. The evolution of the refugee definition before World War II and after that conflict. Legal definition of a refugee in accordance with 1951 Geneva Convention and its key concepts: persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. 4. Exclusion and cessation clauses in determining the refugee under the 1951 Geneva Convention and their systematic and purposeful interpretation. 5. The analysis of the non-refoulement principle with the aspect to personal, temporal, territorial and material ambit. 6. Temporary protection in domestic and international law. Critical analysis of the provision under the 2000 Aliens Act of the Czech Republic. The concept of "save countries" and its consequences. 7. The tasks of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Office (UNHCR).
Literature
  • ČEPELKA, Čestmír, Dalibor JÍLEK and Pavel ŠTURMA. Azyl a uprchlictví v mezinárodním právu. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 262 s. ISBN 8021014938. info
  • JÍLEK, Dalibor. Odpověď mezinárodního práva na hromadné uprchlictví (The response of international law to mass refugeehood). Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1996, 240 pp. Acta Universitatis Brunensis Iuridica ; No 168. ISBN 80-210-1337-0. info
  • JÍLEK, Dalibor. Uprchlictví v České republice v legislativních a migračních souvislostech. (1. část) (Refugeehood in the Czech republic in legislative and migratory contexts. (1st part)). Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Právnická fakulta, 1999, roč. 7, č. 3, p. 214-222. ISSN 1210-9126. info
  • JÍLEK, Dalibor. Uprchlictví v České republice v legislativních a migračních souvislostech. (dokončení) (Refugeehood in the Czech republic in legislative and migratory contexts. (2nd part)). Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Právnická fakulta, 1999, roč. 7, č. 4, p. 323-337. ISSN 1210-9126. info
  • JÍLEK, Dalibor. Dočasné útočiště (Provisional refuge). Časopis pro právní vědu a praxi. Brno: Masarykova univerzita. Právnická fakulta, 1994, roč. 2, č. 6, p. 48-62. ISSN 1210-9126. info
  • JÍLEK, Dalibor. Pojem bezpečné země (Concept of safe country). Evropské a mezinárodní právo. Brno: Nadace prof. B.Komárkové, 1993, roč. 2, č. 2, p. 24-25. ISSN 1210-397. info
  • CHUTNÁ, Monika and Dalibor JÍLEK. Lidská práva v mezinárodních dokumentech. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1994, 334 s. ISBN 8021010053. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005.
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