D1SVZ07 Civil Law Substantive I

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Lenka Dobešová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Lukáš Hadamčík, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Jiří Handlar, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. JUDr. Jan Hurdík, DrSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Pavel Koukal, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Filip Melzer, LL.M., Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. JUDr. Kateřina Ronovská, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
prof. JUDr. Markéta Selucká, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Prof. Dr. Martin Schauer (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Jan Hurdík, DrSc.
Department of Civil Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Alice Dvořáková
Supplier department: Department of Civil Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
The prerequisites of the course are identic with the prerequisites required as the condition of the the ability to participate on the whole study programme.
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
Course objectives
The aim of the course Civil law I is, on the level corresponding with this program, to give to the students the knowledge of the basic characteristics of civil law, incl. its position in the system of legal order and its internal system, the knowledge of principles, rules and issues of civil law and its most general institutes in the frame of juridical facts. The accent is given to the comparative methode, especially from the point of view of EU law.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able, after the course:
- to identify ón the scientific level and with the scientific argumentation the basic criteria of the identification of private law and its differences from public law
- to provide the analysis of internal structure of private law as the general private law and the "special private laws";
- to apply, on both theoretical and practical grounds, the rules, principles and further sources of private law;
- to make the systemic analysis, to formulate the concept of judgement incl. the relevant argumentation in the "hard cases";
- to incorporate into model judgements the judiciary of ECJ, Constitutional Court and European Court of Human Rights;
- to elaborate concept of solutions, based on both theory and practice of juridical/legal facts.
Syllabus
  • 1. The basic concept of civil law. 2. The position of the civil law in the whole system of legal order. 3. The internal system of civil law. 4. The principles of civil law. 5. The rules and sources of civil law. 6. Theory and practice of juridical facts. 7. Theory and practice of juridical individual acts. 8. Theory and practice of contract law. 9. The notion of the time in civil law.
Literature
    required literature
  • HURDÍK, Jan and Petr LAVICKÝ. Změny soukromého práva v České republice a dalších evropských zemích. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2014, 124 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7602-0. info
    recommended literature
  • LAVICKÝ, Petr, Jan HURDÍK and Eva DOBROVOLNÁ. The Reform of Private Law in Europe. 2014. info
  • HURDÍK, Jan and Petr LAVICKÝ. Systém zásad soukromého práva (System of private law principles). 2010th ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, 198 pp. Acta Universitatis Brunensis - Iuridica, No 367. ISBN 978-80-210-5063-1. info
  • HURDÍK, Jan and Josef FIALA. Contract Law in the Czech Republic. 2nd ed. Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands: Kluwer Law International B.V.,, 2020, 156 pp. International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Supplement 120. ISBN 978-94-035-2093-3. Web nakladatele info
  • HURDÍK, Jan and Markéta SELUCKÁ. Hrozí smrt soukromého práva? (Is the Existence of Private Law Threatened?). Právník. Praha: AV ČR, Ústav státu a práva, 2019, vol. 158, No 1, p. 18-31. ISSN 0231-6625. Repozitář MU info
  • KOTÁSEK, Josef and Jan HURDÍK. Der Einfluss des EU-Rechts in den Jahren 2007-2017 auf die Privatrechtsordnung der Tschechischen Republik (Impact of EU Law 2007-2017 on Private Law of the Czech Republic). In Welser. Der Einfluss des EU-Rechts in den Jahren 2007-2017 auf die Privatrechtsordnungen der CEE-Staaten. 1st ed. Vídeň: Manz Verlag, 2019, p. 79-88. Veröffentlichungen der Forschungsstelle für europäische Rechtsentwicklung. ISBN 978-3-214-14793-8. Web nakladatele info
  • ZWEIGERT, Konrad and Hein KÖTZ. Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung :auf dem Gebiete des Privatrechts. 3., neubearb. Aufl. Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1996, xvii, 729. ISBN 3-16-146548-2. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, group and individual discussion, individual students projects. Homework. Group and individual presentation.
Assessment methods
The base for the evaluation of the students is the presentation of the individual projects of the students at the seminars.
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2002, Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2024.
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