PrF:MP905Zk IPL II - Human Rights - Course Information

MP905Zk International Public Law II - Universal and Particular Protection of Human Rights

Extent and Intensity

2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. JUDr. Jiří Malenovský, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Vakhtang Darchiashvili (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Dalibor Jílek, CSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. Kateřina Uhlířová, Ph.D., LL.M. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. JUDr. Dalibor Jílek, CSc.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Hana Brzobohatá

Timetable

Mon 24. 9. to Fri 21. 12. Mon 8:00–9:30 136, Mon 8:00–9:30 030, Mon 9:35–11:05 136, Mon 9:35–11:05 030

Prerequisites

MP803Z International Public Law I
Knowledge of the general part of public international law and domestic branches (constitutional law, penal law and administrative law) of the public order.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)

Course objectives

International law has been gradually developed in the direction of the cohesive protection of human rights. The individual has stopped being an object of international regulation and acquired the legal status of a person of international law, though dependant, uncertain and marginal. The field of international human rights protection has been discovering an advantageous legal position for an individual since s/he has been endowed with individual human rights but the state is bound in respect of her/him by negative or positive duties. The above-mentioned field of international order does not only govern "the having" of human rights but also the control and implementation mechanisms or procedural rules. The dichotomy of human rights regulation (substantive and procedural) provides vital impetus for their respect at the domestic level. The international regime, however, lays down only subsidiary protection. The international treaties and conventions on human rights create the basis of the mentioned sub-system. The instruments of this kind does not express the "dead letter" but living norms the interpretation of which covers different intellectual operations including invisible instinctive processes. The canons of interpretation have dehierarchized position, i.e. they do not remain on mutually subordinate positions. The following methods are used for the interpretation of human rights rules: linguistic, systematic, logic, teleological, functional, comparative, "margin of appreciation", dynamic, etc. Acquiring the above-mentioned canons is an inevitable objective for teaching human rights that results in understanding their mutual interdependence and interdetermination. The exact purpose of the mentioned discipline can be seen then in expressing the human extent of international law that results from the spring of anthropocentrism and humanism.

Syllabus

• THE TOPICS FOR THE SPECIAL PART OF INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LAW: 1. The legal concept of "terra nullus" in the course of time and the demand resulting from ocular, symbolic and effective occupation, uti possidetis, geographical continuity, geological contiguity, etc. State territory, territorial sovereignty and administration in international judicature. 2. Characteristic features of the modern law of the sea. Symbiosis of national and international regimes (internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, archipelagic states, the exclusive economic zone, the territorial shelf, the high seas as res communis omnium and the international sea-bed as the common heritage of mankind). 3. Bifocal point of view at the character and legal regime of the Antarctic in the consideration of two experts. 4. Different forms of diplomacy, the basics of diplomacy law, diplomatic privileges and immunities and the personal, territorial, temporal and material scope of applicability. 5. State nationality and its connection with international law. Understanding nationality from the human rights point of view. The right to have, change and not to be arbitrarily deprived of nationality. 6. Gradual and fast changes of international humanitarian law and its current reflection, its principles as normative vectors. THE TOPICS FOR THE OPTIONAL COURSE IN HUMAN RIGHTS: 1. Ideological sources for the protection of human rights. Genesis of human rights. Universal and regional protection of human rights. 2. The Czech Republic and its obligations in the sphere of human rights protection. Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and international human rights protection. 3. Universal human rights protection, control mechanisms of the human rights protection in accordance with universal instruments. 4. International human rights protection in Europe: the ways of constitutional reception, Council of Europe human rights Conventions and control mechanisms pursuant to them, human rights protection in EU, the Charter of fundamental rights in EU. 5. European Convention on Human Rights and its 11th Protocol. European Court for Human Rights and the reasons for its current overloading and possible solutions. European Court for Human Rights as a general judicial instance of the Council of Europe. 6. American and African standards for human rights protection. Protection of the rights of the child at the international level. 7. International protection of minorities in general and the Roma minority in particular.

Literature

• SUDRE, Frédéric. Mezinárodní a evropské právo lidských práv. Translated by Jiří Malenovský. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 364 s. ISBN 8021014857. info
• HUBÁLKOVÁ, Eva. Evropská úmluva o lidských právech a Česká republika : judikatura a řízení před Evropským soudem pro lidská práva. Praha: Linde, 2003, 743 s. ISBN 807201417X. info
• BERGER, Vincent. Judikatura Evropského soudu pro lidská práva. Translated by Bruno Jungwiert. 7. franc. vyd. (2000), 1. č. Praha: IFEC, 2003, xx, 769 s. ISBN 80-86412-23-7. info

Assessment methods (in Czech)

Semináře se konají 1x za 14 dní. Zkouška je ústní, společná s předmětem Mezinárodní právo veřejné.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Předmět je určen pro max. 10 studentů jiných fakult !

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