Interactive Syllabus

Reading Group 2020

JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D.

Reading Group 2020

JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D.

Reading Group 2020

Info

This is a course designed primarily for PhD students but open also to motivated students of other programmes, including Mgr., Bc., or Erasmus. Every semester we read either a selected book or a set of articles, book chapters or other texts dedicated to a given topic. We gradually read our weekly portions of assigned readings and then meet to discuss the content of the readings and our follow-up thoughts and ideas. The atmosphere of this course will (hopefully) be informal, creative, and intellectually stimulating.

In the autumn of 2020, the topic is: NATIONAL (AND?) CONSTITUTIONAL IDENTITIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. We will explore this topic in the context of (European) constitutionalism - see syllabus below.

The course will run in a hybrid form, i.e. as a series of personal meetings in Brno (in a meeting room at the office of the Public Defender of Rights) which will be streamed online for those who cannot (or do not want to) meet in person. For now, those interested in the course should join the virtual classroom in MS Teams (code: cc4mdoi).

Update: as of our third meeting (21 October), we will meet in MS Teams only, due to the government measures.

The syllabus can be downloaded below. Every week, one student will be asked to prepare questions for discussion which will be published in advanced in this interactive syllabus. The questions should be sent to patecek@law.muni.cz or directly to me (via MS Teams) by the end of the preceding week (i.e. Sunday before class.) Week 1 is ready for you, the following weeks are looking for their volunteers!

Of course, all the assigned readings are available for download by the students enrolled in this course.

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https://is.muni.cz/el/law/podzim2020/DACPVP03/um/RG-autumn2020.pdf

And here come the conditions for obtaining credits at the end of the semester:

active class participation
- two absences are OK, no excuse needed; any extra absence can be compensated by a 2-page paper that summarises the content of the assigned readings
- "active" means that you get actively involved in the discussion and show that you have read the readings; if you decide to only listen, you submit a one-pager after the class in which you express your own points in reaction to the claims presented by other discussants (and show that you have read the readings)
moderation of one class - there are as many classes as there are students in this course, so it should work smoothly - go ahead and pick "your" week, all the necessary information is in the syllabus! (And do not forget to send the questions by the end of the preceding week.)
...and that's it! - in case of any questions, do get in touch, I will be happy to help.