MVD025K Methodology of Legal Thought

Faculty of Law
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Lukáš Hlouch, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Tomáš Sobek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Tomáš Sobek, Ph.D.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Timetable
Mon 20. 2. to Fri 19. 5. each odd Thursday 8:00–9:40 315
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
MVD025K/01: Mon 27. 2. to Fri 19. 5. each even Thursday 8:00–9:40 160, T. Sobek
MVD025K/02: Mon 27. 2. to Fri 19. 5. each even Thursday 10:00–11:40 038, L. Hlouch
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 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 25/40, only registered: 0/40
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The crucial goals of this course are to enable the students of law to gain essential knowledge of legal thought and legal argumentation. The students will follow lectures and continue to gather theoretical matter of legal methodology, which they should be able to practice in the seminars solving both model and practical cases. Eventually they will apply these skills for creative reasoning in their own legal opinions.
Syllabus
  • 1. Language and logic grounds of legal reasoning
  • 2. Legal concept and its structure
  • 3. A limine and analogy as basic juristic methods
  • 4. Distinguishing and evaluating facts of the case /Factual legal thought
  • 5. Subsumtion as logical and hermeneutical problem
  • 6.Legal norms and principles as objects of interpretation.
Literature
    required literature
  • HLOUCH L. Teorie a realita právní interpretace, Plzeň 2011
  • SOBEK T. Právní myšlení, Plzeň 2012
Teaching methods
theoretical preperation, class discussion, reading, homework, hearing cases
Assessment methods
Colloquium
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2023, recent)
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