PrF:MP905Zk International Public Law II - Course Information

MP905Zk International Public Law II

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. JUDr. Jiří Malenovský, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vakhtang Darchiashvili (lecturer)
JUDr. Kateřina Uhlířová, Ph.D., LL.M. (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Veronika Smutná, Ph.D. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Hana Brzobohatá

Timetable

Mon 22. 9. to Fri 19. 12. Mon 8:00–9:30 030, Mon 8:00–9:30 136, Mon 9:35–11:05 030, Mon 9:35–11:05 136, Mon 18:15–19:45 030, Mon 18:15–19:45 136

Prerequisites

(NOW( MP905Z IPL II - sem ) || MP905Z IPL II - sem ) && MP803Z International Public Law I
Knowledge of the general part of public international law and domestic branches (constitutional law, penal law and administrative law) of the Czech public law.

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

• Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)

Course objectives

Main objective of the course is to provide students with the ability of good orientation in different areas regulated by international law, in order to understand not only the contents, but also the substance of those rules. Particular attention is devoted to the international protection of human rights. The students should become familiar not only with particular rights, but with the international control mechanism as well. Students should also understand that international law is an integral part of the law binding the Czech Republic.

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 HUMAN RIGHTS: 1. Ideological sources for the protection of human rights. 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. Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and international 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, human rights protection in EU, the Charter of fundamental rights in EU. 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 as a general judicial instance of the Council of Europe. 6. American and African standards for human rights protection. Protection of the rights of the child at the international level. 7. International protection of minorities in general and the Roma minority in particular.

Literature

• POTOČNÝ, Miroslav and Jan ONDŘEJ. Mezinárodní právo veřejné : zvláštní část. 5., dopl. a rozš. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2006, xxii, 511. ISBN 8071795364. info
• ČEPELKA, Čestmír and Pavel ŠTURMA. Mezinárodní právo veřejné. 1. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2008, xli, 840. ISBN 9788071797289. info
• ŠTURMA, Pavel. Mezinárodní a evropské kontrolní mechanismy v oblasti lidských práv. 2., dopl. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2003, ix, 150. ISBN 8071793981. info
• BERGER, Vincent. Judikatura Evropského soudu pro lidská práva. Translated by Bruno Jungwiert. 7. franc. vyd. (2000), 1. č. Praha: IFEC, 2003, xx, 769 s. ISBN 80-86412-23-7. info
• REPÍK, Bohumil. Evropská úmluva o lidských právech a trestní právo. Vyd. 1. Praha: Orac, 2002, 263 s. ISBN 80-86199-57-6. info
• SUDRE, Frédéric. Mezinárodní a evropské právo lidských práv. Translated by Jiří Malenovský. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 364 s. ISBN 8021014857. info
• HUBÁLKOVÁ, Eva. Evropská úmluva o lidských právech a Česká republika : judikatura a řízení před Evropským soudem pro lidská práva. Praha: Linde, 2003, 743 s. ISBN 807201417X. info

Assessment methods

Seminars are compulsory and concentrate on the case law of international courts. The examination is written (compulsory part) followed by an optional oral part.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět je určen pro max. 10 studentů jiných fakult !

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