PrF:CM103Zk General History of Law - Course Information
CM103Zk General History of Law
Faculty of LawAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. JUDr. Ladislav Vojáček, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Bc. Jaromír Tauchen, Ph.D., LL.M. Eur.Int. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. Ladislav Vojáček, CSc.
Department of the History of the State and Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Zuzana Suchá
Supplier department: Department of the History of the State and Law – Faculty of Law - Timetable
- Mon 23. 9. to Fri 20. 12. Thu 8:00–9:30 034
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- NOW ( CM103Z General History of Law-Seminar ) || CM103Z General History of Law-Seminar
- 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
- The sense of teaching Legal History is to enable students to gain information about basic trends of state and law development in Europe and some non-European states so that they would understand Czech legal order and its past development in general context.
- Syllabus
- Development in periods. Ancient state and law Medieval law and state (early centralization,disintegration,monarchy of the estates), absolutism, modern state and law. Estates, feud system, position of servants. Role and position of the monarch, central and local institutions. Sources of law, legal relics. Legal particularism. Perception of Roman law. Differences in development of continental and English law. Most important codification of 18th and 19th centuries. Constitutional Development of European states and USA. Characteristics of law and state development in the I.half of 19th century. Totalitarian regimes in 20th Century characteristic features of law in 20th century
- Literature
- required literature
- VOJÁČEK, L and KOL. Nástin právních dějin. 1st ed. Brno: MU - MUNIPRESS, 2011. info
- VOJÁČEK, Ladislav, Ondřej HORÁK, Pavel SALÁK, Karel SCHELLE, Renata VESELÁ and Eduard VLČEK. Praktikum z právních dějin (Practice of Legal History). / Ladislav Vojáček a kolektiv. 1st ed. Pelhřimov: Jaroslav Samek, 2006, 236 pp. 1.sv. ISBN 80-86391-19-1. info
- recommended literature
- SCHELLE, Karel, Marta KADLECOVÁ, Renata VESELÁ, Eduard VLČEK, Michaela ŽIDLICKÁ, Ladislav VOJÁČEK and Ilona SCHELLEOVÁ. Právní dějiny (Legal History). 1st ed. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2007, 1134 pp. Právo. ISBN 978-80-7380-043-7. info
- Teaching methods
- samostudium; lecture
- Assessment methods
- open questions as a form of written exam (no test; 66% success rate)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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