PrF:MV854K Legal Clinic on Discrimination - Course Information

MV854K Legal Clinic on Discrimination and Equal Treatment I

Extent and Intensity

0/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Polák (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jiří Šamánek (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Zuzana Ondrůjová (assistant)
Mgr. Olga Rosenkranzová, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Bc. Lucie Obrovská, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Bc. Jana Kvasnicová (assistant)
Mgr. Ivana Kupčíková, DiS. (assistant)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. et Mgr. Petr Polák
Lifelong Learning Centre – Commercial Activities Centres – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Mgr. Lenka Sochorová
Supplier department: Lifelong Learning Centre – Commercial Activities Centres – Faculty of Law

Timetable of Seminar Groups

MV854K/01: Mon 28. 9. to Fri 18. 12. each odd Tuesday 16:40–18:10 055

Prerequisites

Real interest in the specific issue of the subject, inventive cognition skills, high level of analytic skills, good knowledge of English or German is advantage. The seminary will be helt at The Office of the Public Defender of Rights, Udolni 39 Street, Brno.

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 8 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/8, only registered: 0/8

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)

Course objectives

The programme includes comprehensive information on equal treatment and prohibition of discrimination in the Czech national law and EU law from both, practical and theoretical point of view. It is realised in cooperation with the Office of the Public Defender of Rights. The particular lessons are tough by employees of this Office or by its external experts. After acquitting of essential theoretical information, practice of knowledge in the form of solution of model situations is the significant part of the programme. Hereinafter, the programme includes solution of particular cases in which the discrimination is argued by the claimants under supervision of lawyers from Department of Equal Treatment of the Office of the Public Defender of Rights. At the end of the course, students will be able to apply general theoretical basis including relevant case-law in practice.

Syllabus

• Opening lesson; Introduction to the theory of equality; EU anti-discrimination law; Czech equality and anti-discrimination law; Case law of CJEU concerning discrimination; Case law of ECHR concerning discrimination; The Public Defender of Rights as the Equality Body.

Literature

required literature
• Rovnost a diskriminace. Edited by Michal Bobek - Pavla Boučková - Zdeněk Kühn. Vyd. 1. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2007, xlviii, 47. ISBN 9788071795841. info
• Antidiskriminační zákon : komentář. Edited by Pavla Boučková. 1. vyd. Praha: C.H.Beck, 2010, xiv, 405. ISBN 9788074003158. info

recommended literature
• FREDMAN, Sandra. Antidiskriminační právo. Translated by Tereza Kodíčková. Praha: Multikulturní centrum Praha, 2007, xxvi, 209. ISBN 9788025410547. info
• BOUDA, Petr. Nepřímá diskriminace. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2011, 274 s. ISBN 9788021056794. URL info
• ELLIS, Evelyn. EU anti-discrimination law. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, lxviii, 40. ISBN 9780199266838. info

Teaching methods

Interactive teaching methods with using of principles of team work and analytic techniques. Training of acquired knowledge by presenting of solutions of model situations and practical examples.

Assessment methods

Solution of model situations, during colloquium presentation of solution of provided problem in individual performance by usány of acquired knowledge.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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