PrF:MVV57907K Influences on Decision - Course Information
MVV57907K Extra-legal Influences on Judicial Decision - Making
Faculty of LawAutumn 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- JUDr. Ladislav Vyhnánek, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- JUDr. Ladislav Vyhnánek, Ph.D., LL.M.
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Andrea Špačková, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law - Timetable
- each odd Wednesday 16:40–18:10 025
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
MVV57907K/02: No timetable has been entered into IS. L. Vyhnánek - Prerequisites
- SOUHLAS
The lecturer's approval is necessary for enrollment. - 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
- Course objectives
- At the end of the course, the student will be: able to understand and explain the concept of extra-legal factors influencing the judicial decisionmaking; able to employ meothods which are appropriate to identify and quantify such influences; able to desing a scientific study examining factors that influence the judicial decisionmaking.
- Syllabus
- Introduction. What determines judicial decision-making? How to examine factors influencing judicial decisionmaking? Basic problems of empirical legal research (plus designing a quantitative legal study). Basic problems of applied statistics in legal research. Judicial decision-making and idelology. Judicial decision-making and "structural problems". Judicial decision-making and public opinion. Judicial decision-making and the parties.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- EPSTEIN, Lee and Andrew D. MARTIN. An introduction to empirical legal research. 1st ed. pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, xiv, 324. ISBN 9780199669066. info
- The Oxford handbook of empirical legal research. Edited by Peter Cane - Herbert M. Kritzer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, xv, 1094. ISBN 9780199659944. info
- not specified
- Články a další materiály zpřístupněné ve studijních materiálech
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, in-class discussion, guided teamwork.
- Assessment methods
- At the end of the course, students wil be required to design an empirical study examining extra-legal influences on judicial decision-making in the Czech Republic. The evaluation will be based on the quality of the project (including how it accounts for theoretical and practical problems discussed throughout the course).
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2015, recent)
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