The Role of Vaclav Havel in Czech Critical Legal Thought

C 2016

The Role of Vaclav Havel in Czech Critical Legal Thought

ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Markéta

Základní údaje

Originální název

The Role of Vaclav Havel in Czech Critical Legal Thought

Autoři

ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Markéta

Vydání

Oxford, Law and Critique in Central Europe, od s. 206-218, 13 s. 2016

Nakladatel

Counterpress

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50500 5.5 Law

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Odkazy

URL

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14220/16:00091331

Organizační jednotka

Právnická fakulta

ISBN

978-1-910761-01-4

Klíčová slova anglicky

Havel; Kundera; Law; Prague Spring; Law and Literature

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 27. 2. 2017 13:31, Mgr. Petra Georgala

Anotace

V originále

Each country has its own characteristic features of law based on its historical experience and Czech Republic is not an exception. Because of it Czech law must be tested even more carefully in the context of its past. The critique of law is a mirror of law itself so we necessarily need to know it to meet the complex requirements of the legal discourse. However, it is not only the purely legal critique of law which constitutes legal environment. During the period of Actually Existing Socialism there were dissidents who influenced legal discourse maybe more than the official legal opinion of the state. Probably the most important of them was Václav Havel, the later president of the Czech Republic. His point of view influenced legal consciousness during the period of Actually Existing Socialism as well as later, after the Velvet revolution. Of course, his opinion cannot be considered a legal one in the usual sense. But as for the critical legal thinking in Central and Eastern European countries, Václav Havel’s ideas contained in his dramas or essays are highly important because of the ban of any official critique of law during the communist era. The only possibility to criticize was to hide the critique into art. Even after the end of communism in Czech Republic, Václav Havel remained an important critic of the defects of our state, society and law. In my paper I will focus on Havel´s texts dealing with law in artistic form. I would like to prove and explain how Havel as an important European and international figure influenced legal discourse in Central and Eastern European countries.

Přiložené soubory

Klusonova_kapitola.pdf

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Citovat

ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Markéta. The Role of Vaclav Havel in Czech Critical Legal Thought. In Rafał Mańko, Cosmin Cercel, and Adam Sulikowski. Law and Critique in Central Europe. Oxford: Counterpress, 2016, s. 206-218. ISBN 978-1-910761-01-4.

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ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Markéta. The Role of Vaclav Havel in Czech Critical Legal Thought. In Rafał Ma\'nko, Cosmin Cercel, and Adam Sulikowski. \textit{Law and Critique in Central Europe}. Oxford: Counterpress, 2016, s.~206-218. ISBN~978-1-910761-01-4.

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