PrF:D3USP03 Constitutional Law III - Course Information
D3USP03 Constitutional Law III
Faculty of LawAutumn 2014
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Jan Svatoň, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Vojtěch Šimíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc.
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Alice Dvořáková
Supplier department: Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law - Prerequisites
- Fulfillment of the requirements for course credit D2USPO3 Constitutional Law II
- 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
- Constitutional Law and Theory of State (programme PrF, D-TPV4) (2)
- Course objectives
- Constitutional Law introduces students in basic problems of the theory of the constitution and in values the constitution of the Czech Republic is based on. Further deals with the legal regulation of state power and its organisation in the Czech Republic (separation of powers, particular constitutional bodies, their position to each other, rules of their procedure), then with the relation of state and individuals (citizenship, fundamental rights and freedom, their protection, constitutional foundations of the status of foreigners).
- Syllabus
- Concept, subject and sources of the Czech constitutional law. Continuity and discontinuity in the development of the Czech constitutional law. Constitutional accountability. Constitution as a fundamental law. Interpretation and application of the Czech constitution. International law and the municipal law. Promulgation of statutes and other legal regulations. Right to associate and the right of the political parties in the Czech Republic. Electoral law and its principles. Electoral procedure. Judicial protection of franchise. Direct democracy in the Czech Republic. Territorial organisation of the Czech Republic. Frontiers. Capital. Citizenship. Concept. Principles of legal regulation. International agreements. How the Czech citizenship is acquired and lost. Charter of fundamental rights and freedoms. Notion of fundamental right and freedom. Classification. Freedom, liberty, equality, dignity, non-discrimination. State power in the Czech Republic. Constitutional concept. Separation of powers. State power and self-government. Legal status of a state body (organ). Parliamentarism in the Czech Republic. Constitutional status of the Parliament. Bicameral structure. Legislative process. Legal position of Members of the Parliament. Executive power. The head of State. The government and other administrative offices. The Constitutional Court. Legal status. Competence. Types of judicial procedures before the Constitutional Court. Judicial power in the Czech constitution. Legal status, position, activity. The State Attorney's Office. The Supreme Auditing Office. The Czech National Bank. Constitutional foundations of territorial self-government. Other forms of self-government.
- Literature
- FILIP, Jan. Ústavní právo České republiky. 1, Základní pojmy a instituty. Ústavní základy ČR. 4. opr. a dopl. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2003, 556 s. (Edice učebnic PrF MU v Brně ; sv. 330). ISBN 80-210-3254-5. info
- FILIP, Jan, Zdeněk KOUDELKA, Jiří KROUPA, Jan SVATOŇ, Vojtěch ŠIMÍČEK and Renata VLČKOVÁ. Soudobé ústavní systémy (Constitutional Systems). 2. dopl. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2001, 241 pp. Edice učebnice PrF MU v Brně ; č. 259. ISBN 80-210-2520-4. info
- Ústava a ústavní řád České republiky : komentář. Edited by Václav Pavlíček. 2. dopl. a podstatně rozš. Praha: Linde, 1999, 975 s. ISBN 8072011707. info
- BLAHOŽ, Josef, Vladimír BALAŠ and Karel KLÍMA. Srovnávací ústavní právo. Vyd. 1. Praha: CODEX Bohemia, 1998, 359 s. ISBN 80-85963-80-9. info
- Ústava a ústavní řád České republiky : komentář. Edited by Václav Pavlíček - Jiří Hřebejk. 2. dopl. a podstatně rozš. Praha: Linde, 1998, 772 s. ISBN 8072011103. info
- PAVLÍČEK, Václav. Ústavní právo a státověda. Praha: Linde, 1998, 369 s. ISBN 8072011413. info
- KLOKOČKA, Vladimír. Ústavní řízení evropských států. 1. vyd. Praha: Linde, 1996, 415 s. ISBN 8072010107. info
- WEYR, František. Československé právo ústavní. V Praze: Melantrich, 1937, xii, 339. info
- PRAŽÁK, Jiří. Rakouské právo veřejné. Díl první, Právo ústavní. Rakouské právo ústavní. Čásť třetí, Ústava říšská, Čásť čtvrtá, Ústava mocnářství celkového. 2. dopl. vyd. V Praze: Nákladem Jednoty právnické, 1903, 478, 249 s. info
- Teaching methods
- Written analyze of selected cases and literature
- Assessment methods
- Written analyze of selected cases and oral colloquium
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2014, recent)
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