PrF:LO304Z Právo životního prostředí - Course Information
LO304Z Právo životního prostředí
Faculty of LawSpring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 10 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- JUDr. Jana Dudová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Jakub Hanák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Ilona Jančářová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Ivana Průchová, CSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. Vojtěch Vomáčka, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- doc. JUDr. Ilona Jančářová, Ph.D.
Contact Person: Mgr. Lenka Sochorová - 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
- LL.M. in Corporate Law (programme PrF, C-CV)
- Course objectives
- The aim of this module is to understand the legal regulation of environmental protection, especially to provide students with the overall awareness of business related issues of environmental protection. It will concentrate on emissions of polluting substances into the environment and the conflict of interests in land use from the environmental point of view. Students should understand problems regarding: • legal requirements for environmental protection in investment activities • legal requirements for environmental protection in business operations • different forms of public administration activities and the system of public administration • procedural aspects of environmental protection • liability for damages and for inconsistency with the regulatory requirements • approach of CR, EU and US legislation to the environmental protection
- Learning outcomes
- After completion of the module the students should be able to be familiar with the legal concepts of environmental protection and its specifics on the national and international level, to implement environmental protection requirements in management of business organisation, to apply relevant procedures to comply with the environmental law requirements, defend their rights in procedures related to environmental issues.
- Syllabus
- • Environmental protection in the Czech, European and international legal systems. The right to favourable environment. • Public administration and other persons and their role in environmental law. System of public authorities, forms of their activities. Their competence and powers. The role of the public in the environmental protection. • Liability in the environmental law; criminal liability, liability for damage and ecological damage, administrative liability. Case studies of claims and disputes. • Legal regulation of the air protection, water protection, nature protection, agricultural and forest land protection and use. Direct and economic regulatory tools. The basic legal duties of individual persons. Permitting processes. Legal regulation of waste disposal and requirements. Basic legal duties of individual persons involved in production and dispose of the waste. Administrative and economic tools and sanctions. • Chemical substances. Prevention of serious accidents. Legal tools for dealing with dangerous substances. Emergency planning. • Conflict of interests in the land-use. Environmental requirements set by the law that must be met by investors in the procedures under the Construction Act. Aspects of soil, water, air and nature protection, cultural heritage protection. • Environmental impact assessment. The procedure for assessing the impact of given buildings, activities, technologies, •Integrated prevention and pollution control. Defining of the facilities under the IPPC permit system, procedure, legal requirements, inspections. • Protection of the health in a working environment.
- Literature
- required literature
- JANČÁŘOVÁ, Ilona, Jana DUDOVÁ, Jakub HANÁK, Milan PEKÁREK, Ivana PRŮCHOVÁ, Vojtěch VOMÁČKA and Dominik ŽIDEK. Právo životního prostředí: obecná část. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2016, 716 pp. Učebnice Právnické fakulty MU, č. 531. ISBN 978-80-210-8366-0. info
- JANČÁŘOVÁ, Ilona, Jana DUDOVÁ, Jakub HANÁK, Milan PEKÁREK, Ivana PRŮCHOVÁ and Jana TKÁČIKOVÁ. Právo životního prostředí: zvláštní část. 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 624 pp. Edice učebnic Právnické fakulty MU, č. 527. ISBN 978-80-210-8041-6. info
- recommended literature
- DUDOVÁ, Jana. Právní aspekty ochrany veřejného zdraví před environmentálním hlukem (Legal aspects of protecting public health from environmental noise). 1st ed. Brno: MU, Právnická fakulta 2013, 2013, 240 pp. Acta Universitatis Brunensis Iuridica, Editio S, No 450. ISBN 978-80-210-6522-2. info
- PRÁŠKOVÁ, Helena. Základy odpovědnosti za správní delikty. Vyd. 1. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2013, xxvi, 420. ISBN 9788074004568. info
- KOCOUREK, Tomáš. Omezení vlastnického práva k pozemkům ve prospěch ochrany životního prostředí. Vyd. 1. Praha: Leges, 2012, 278 s. ISBN 9788087576106. info
- PSUTKA, Jindřich. Odpovědnost za ekologické škody v občanském právu. Vyd. 1. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2011, xiii, 419. ISBN 9788073575595. info
- not specified
- ŽIDEK, Dominik. Ochrana životního prostředí v procesech veřejného stavebního práva. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2019. 220 s. Právní monografie. ISBN 978-80-7598-353-4.
- ŽIDEK, Dominik. Stavební zákon a ochrana životního prostředí – novinky po 1. lednu 2018. Stavební právo : bulletin, Česká společnost pro stavební právo, 2018, roč. 2018, č. 1, s. 31-40. ISSN 1211-6386
- VOMÁČKA, Vojtěch a Dominik ŽIDEK. Omezení účastenství ekologických spolků: Pyrrhovo vítězství stavební lobby. České právo životního prostředí, Česká společnost pro právo životního prostředí, 2017, roč. 2017, č. 45, s. 36-54. ISSN 1213-5542.
- Teaching methods
- PowerPoint presentations, group discussions, group/individual consultations, case studies.
- Assessment methods
- Participation in the classes, semestr paper.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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