MP310Zk Constitutional Law II

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Mgr. Jaroslav Benák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Pavel Kandalec, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. David Kosař, Ph.D., LL.M., J. S. D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Zdeněk Koudelka, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Alžbeta Králová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Mgr. Pavel Molek, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Jan Petrov, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Jan Svatoň, CSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. Kateřina Šimáčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Vojtěch Šimíček, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Katarína Šipulová, Ph.D., MSt (lecturer)
JUDr. Zuzana Vikarská, MJur, MPhil, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Ladislav Vyhnánek, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer)
JUDr. Marie Zámečníková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. PhDr. Robert Zbíral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Klára Kamarádová (assistant)
Mgr. Lenka Křičková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Karolina Michková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. David Kosař, Ph.D., LL.M., J. S. D.
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
Mon 25. 9. to Fri 22. 12. Thu 14:00–15:40 140
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
MP310Zk/01: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Monday 8:00–9:40 148, Z. Vikarská, L. Vyhnánek
MP310Zk/02: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 8:00–9:40 148, Z. Vikarská, L. Vyhnánek
MP310Zk/03: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Monday 10:00–11:40 148, Z. Vikarská, L. Vyhnánek
MP310Zk/04: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 10:00–11:40 148, D. Kosař
MP310Zk/05: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Monday 12:00–13:40 302, J. Filip
MP310Zk/06: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 12:00–13:40 126, J. Filip
MP310Zk/07: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Monday 14:00–15:40 302, J. Filip
MP310Zk/08: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Monday 16:00–17:40 030, Z. Koudelka
MP310Zk/09: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 16:00–17:40 126, P. Kandalec
MP310Zk/10: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Monday 18:00–19:40 315, P. Kandalec
MP310Zk/11: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 18:00–19:40 315, P. Kandalec
MP310Zk/12: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Wednesday 12:00–13:40 209, R. Zbíral
MP310Zk/13: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Wednesday 12:00–13:40 209, M. Zámečníková
MP310Zk/14: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Wednesday 18:00–19:40 131, Z. Vikarská, L. Vyhnánek
MP310Zk/15: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Wednesday 14:00–15:40 257, M. Zámečníková
MP310Zk/16: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Wednesday 16:00–17:40 257, V. Šimíček
MP310Zk/17: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Wednesday 16:00–17:40 257, V. Šimíček
MP310Zk/18: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Wednesday 18:00–19:40 025, V. Šimíček
MP310Zk/19: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Wednesday 18:00–19:40 129, V. Šimíček
MP310Zk/20: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 14:00–15:40 302, J. Filip
MP310Zk/21: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each odd Monday 18:00–19:40 214, J. Filip
MP310Zk/22: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Wednesday 8:00–9:40 025, K. Šipulová
MP310Zk/23: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 18:00–19:40 214, J. Filip
MP310Zk/24: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Wednesday 10:00–11:40 030, K. Šipulová
MP310Zk/25: Mon 2. 10. to Fri 22. 12. each even Monday 16:00–17:40 025, Z. Koudelka
MP310Zk/26: No timetable has been entered into IS. Z. Vikarská
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MP213Z Constitutional Law I
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
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_) (2)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV) (2)
Course objectives
At the end of the course the student should understand the basic problems of the theory of the constitution and the values the constitution of the Czech Republic is based on (legal regulation of state power and its organisation in the Czech Republic, separation of powers, particular constitutional bodies, their position to each other, rules of their procedure); the students should be able to interpret provisions of the constitutional order and of the related enactments; students should be able to deliver a reasoned analysis of some basic constitutional law problems.
Learning outcomes
After finishing the course of Constitutional Law students will be able to orient theirself in the fundamental questions of constitutional law, such as the constitutional theory, sources of constitutional law of the Czech Republic and their relationship to sources of international law and of the law of the European Union. They will be able to applicate the rules of interpretation of the Constitution and of other sources of constitutional law of the Czech Republic. They will understand organization of state power in the Czech Republic and the principles of the separation of powers. The functioning of state bodies they will be able to interpret both as regards the municipal law and the division of competencies between the European Union and the Member States. The will understand the rules of the relationships between bodies of State power such as the Parliament, the President of the Republic, the Government, ministries, the Constitutional Court and other courts and to applicate the basic rules of the procedure of these bodies. Graduates of the course of constitutional law will be able to file a constitutional complaint on the basis of gained knowledge in the field of fundamental rights and freedoms in the Charter of fundamental rights and freedoms. On the acquired knowledge they will be able to solve questions of organization and management of elections. He will distinguish between the public power and the private one, and between public and private law and on how to apply claims in this field including the separation of powers in general and in point of view of the Constitution of the Czech Republic in particular, and in response to it in the form of a solution of conflicts of competences and by filling of the constitutional complaints. Students will be able to differentiate between forms of state power and territorial self-government and be able to applicate the basic rules of their operating.
Syllabus
  • Charter of fundamental rights and freedoms
  • Notion of fundamental right and freedom
  • Freedom, liberty, equality, dignity, non-discrimination
  • State power in the Czech Republic
  • Separation of powers
  • State power and self-government
  • Legal status of a state body
  • Parliamentarism in the Czech Republic
  • Executive power
  • The head of State
  • The government and other administrative offices
  • The Constitutional Court
  • Judicial power in the Czech constitution
  • The State Attorneys Office
  • The Supreme Auditing Office
  • The Czech National Bank
  • Constitutional foundations of territorial self-government
  • Other forms of self-government.
Literature
    required literature
  • KOSAŘ, David, Ladislav VYHNÁNEK, Kühn ZDENĚK and Antoš MAREK. Ustavní právo: Casebook (Constitutional Law: Casebook). 1st ed. Praha: Wolters Kluwer CZ, 2014. Casebooky, I. ISBN 978-80-7478-664-8. info
  • FILIP, Jan. Ústavní právo České republiky. Základní pojmy a instituty. Ústavní základy ČR (Constitutional Law of the Czech Republilc. Basic Notions and Institutes). 4th ed. Brno: Václav Klemm - Vydavatelství a nakladatelství, 2011, 370 pp. ISBN 978-80-904083-8-8. info
  • FILIP, Jan. Vybrané kapitoly ke studiu ústavního práva (Selected chapters for the study of constitutional law). 2nd ed. Brno: Václav Klemm - Vydavatelství a nakladatelství, 2011, 328 pp. ISBN 978-80-904083-7-1. info
    recommended literature
  • GERLOCH, Aleš, Jiří HŘEBEJK and Vladimír ZOUBEK. Ústavní systém České republiky. 6. aktualizované vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2022, 574 stran. ISBN 9788073808655. info
  • HUSSEINI, Faisal, Michal BARTOŇ, Marian KOKEŠ, Martin KOPA, Jakub CAMRDA, David HEJČ, Lukáš HLOUCH, Michal MATOUŠ, Ondřej MORAVEC, Lucie NECHVÁTALOVÁ, Jiří NOVÁK, Lenka PEKAŘOVÁ, Filip RIGEL, Maxim TOMOSZEK, Veronika TOMOSZKOVÁ, Vojtěch VOMÁČKA and Štěpán VÝBORNÝ. Listina základních práv a svobod. Komentář. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2020, 1413 pp. Beckova edice komentované zákony. ISBN 978-80-7400-812-2. info
  • PAVLÍČEK, Václav. Ústavní právo a státověda. 3. vydání. Praha: Leges, 2020, 1160 stran. ISBN 9788075024688. info
  • FILIP, Jan. Ústavní právo : učební text pro bakalářské studium. [Brno]: [Masarykova univerzita. Středisko pro pomoc studentům se specifickými nároky], 2017, 1 online. URL info
  • BARTOŇ, Michal, Jan KRATOCHVÍL, Martin KOPA, Maxim TOMOSZEK, Jiří JIRÁSEK and Ondřej SVAČEK. Základní práva. 1st ed. Praha: Leges, 2016, 608 pp. ISBN 978-80-7502-128-1. info
  • ŠIMÍČEK, Vojtěch, Jan FILIP, Pavel MOLEK, Lenka BAHÝĽOVÁ, Milan PODHRÁZKÝ, Radovan SUCHÁNEK and Ladislav VYHNÁNEK. Ústava České republiky - Komentář (The Constitution of the Czech Republic - A Commentary). Praha: Linde Praha, 2010, 1536 pp. ISBN 978-80-7201-814-7. info
  • FILIP, Jan, Pavel HOLLÄNDER and Vojtěch ŠIMÍČEK. Zákon o Ústavním soudu : komentář. (Constitutional Court Act : commentary). 2nd ed. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2007, 896 pp. Beckova edice Komentované zákony. ISBN 978-80-7179-599-5. info
Teaching methods
Lectures and seminars
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
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The course is also listed under the following terms 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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