DOTPV_CD89 Czech and Czechoslovak Legal History 1945 - 1989

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. JUDr. Bc. Jaromír Tauchen, Ph.D., LL.M. Eur.Int. (lecturer)
JUDr. David Kolumber, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Bc. Jaromír Tauchen, Ph.D., LL.M. Eur.Int.
Department of the History of the State and Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Zuzana Suchá
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! DO4DEPR03 History of Czech and Czechoslovak Law 1945-1989 – Public Law
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 course aims to gain deeper knowledge about civil, agricultural and labour law and about the development of the system of government and public law disciplines in the period from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the communist regime.
Learning outcomes
- To look up and examine current legal historical topics by using scientific methods;
- to evaluate in a timely manner some later legal regulations, including the applicable law, whilst using the knowledge about development of legal institutions;
- to organize and write down the collected data, interpret the results achieved, present the findings and defend them in relevant forum;
- to deepen continually the student’s knowledge of the discipline.
Syllabus
  • Violation of property relations after the Second World War;
  • Decrees of the president of the Republic and their nature;
  • Constitution 1948 and 1960, federalization of the Republic;
  • Slovak bodies of state and their functions;
  • National committees;
  • Judiciary;
  • Criminal law;
  • Agricultural and cooperative law;
  • Civil law;
  • Elimination of the commercial law and its replacement by economic law;
  • Labour law.
Literature
    required literature
  • VOJÁČEK, Ladislav, Jaromír TAUCHEN and David KOLUMBER. České právní dějiny do roku 1989 (Czech Legal History until 1989). 1.vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2024, 272 pp. sv. č. 568. ISBN 978-80-280-0517-7. info
  • KOSAŘ, David, Radim POLČÁK and Kateřina ŠIMÁČKOVÁ. Komunistické právo v Československu : kapitoly z dějin bezpráví. Edited by Michal Bobek - Pavel Molek - Vojtěch Šimíček. 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2009, 1005 stran. ISBN 9788021048447. info
    recommended literature
  • KALKUŠOVÁ, Slávka. Kauza Lex Schwarzenberg : otazníky kolem vyvlastnění majetku hlubocké větve Schwarzenbergů. Vydání první. Ostrava: Key Publishing, 2018, 179 stran. ISBN 9788087475546. info
  • Encyklopedie českých právních dějin. Edited by Karel Schelle - Jaromír Tauchen. Vydání první. Ostrava: KEY Publishing, 2015, 971 stran. ISBN 9788074182389. info
  • SCHELLE, Karel and Jaromír TAUCHEN. Vývoj konstitucionalismu v českých zemích (2. díl) (The Development of Constitutionalism in the Czech Lands (Part 2)). Praha: Linde, 2013, 1476 pp. ISBN 978-80-7201-926-7. info
  • VOJÁČEK, Ladislav, Jaromír TAUCHEN, Karel MAREK and Lenka DOUBRAVOVÁ. Vývoj soukromého práva na území českých zemí (II. díl) (The Development of Private Law in the Territory of the Czech Republic (Part II.)). 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 411 pp. Spisy PrF MU č. 427 (řada teoretická). ISBN 978-80-210-6007-4. info
  • KUKLÍK, Jan. Mýty a realita tzv. "Benešových dekretů" : dekrety prezidenta republiky 1940-1945. Praha: Linde Praha - Právnické a ekonomické nakladatelství a knihkupectví Bohumily Hořínkové a Jana Tuláčka, 2002, 511 s. ISBN 8072013521. info
Teaching methods
As a teaching method, there is an individual study of assigned expert literature and eventually individual expert consultations with lecturers.
Assessment methods
Credits by reaching the given degree of knowledge and by active attendance at consultations.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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