MVV57K Contemporary Legal Theory - The Brno and Vienna Schools and their critics

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mag. Jürgen Busch, LL.M. (seminar tutor), prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Hana Brzobohatá
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MVV57K/01: Mon 27. 9. to Fri 17. 12. Wed 16:40–18:10 136
MVV57K/02: No timetable has been entered into IS.
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
Next to other famous ground breaking developments of the last fin-de-siecle in the Habsburg monarchy around 1900 in all kind of cultural domains like arts, music, literature and science, the Brno and Vienna Schools of Legal Theory brought about one of the most remarkable intellectual achievements in legal science in the 20th century that was world-wide received and is debates still until today. In this sense, the founding fathers and protagonists of the two schools which developed in close relation and exchange with each other, Frantisek Weyr and Hans Kelsen are for legal science what Frantisek Kafka and Friedrich Torberg are for literature or Ernst Mach for natural science when it comes to fruitful exchange between Czech and German culture rooted in the multi-ethnical environment of the Habsburg monarchy. In the course of introductory presentations by the teacher and presentations on selected topics by the students themselves, the seminar will exemplifying the development, main arguments and innovations, similarities and differences in and in-between the two schools of legal thought as well as there status in and relevance for contemporary legal theory (related to this last aspect, special attention will be paid to current developments of international law and EU law). Special attention will be paid to central topics of the two schools reflected in writings of their historical and contemporary critics. Students will select topics from a list or suggest their own topics of relevance and covering one of the focus points of the course, will draft a seminar paper (of approx. 15 pages) and will present their paper orally in the seminar meetings. The seminar will be organised as a blocked course, meaning that instead of regular weekly course sessions, the seminar group will meet on several agreed dates during the semester, where introductory lectures are possibly followed by excursions and a final weekend session for the oral presentations (dates to be agreed during first meeting).
Syllabus
  • Next to other famous ground breaking developments of the last fin-de-siecle in the Habsburg monarchy around 1900 in all kind of cultural domains like arts, music, literature and science, the Brno and Vienna Schools of Legal Theory brought about one of the most remarkable intellectual achievements in legal science in the 20th century that was world-wide received and is debates still until today. In this sense, the founding fathers and protagonists of the two schools which developed in close relation and exchange with each other, Frantisek Weyr and Hans Kelsen are for legal science what Frantisek Kafka and Friedrich Torberg are for literature or Ernst Mach for natural science when it comes to fruitful exchange between Czech and German culture rooted in the multi-ethnical environment of the Habsburg monarchy. In the course of introductory presentations by the teacher and presentations on selected topics by the students themselves, the seminar will exemplifying the development, main arguments and innovations, similarities and differences in and in-between the two schools of legal thought as well as there status in and relevance for contemporary legal theory (related to this last aspect, special attention will be paid to current developments of international law and EU law). Special attention will be paid to central topics of the two schools reflected in writings of their historical and contemporary critics. Students will select topics from a list or suggest their own topics of relevance and covering one of the focus points of the course, will draft a seminar paper (of approx. 15 pages) and will present their paper orally in the seminar meetings. The seminar will be organised as a blocked course, meaning that instead of regular weekly course sessions, the seminar group will meet on several agreed dates during the semester, where introductory lectures are possibly followed by excursions and a final weekend session for the oral presentations (dates to be agreed during first meeting).
Literature
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Teaching methods
seminars
Assessment methods
seminar paper presented orally
Language of instruction
German
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
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