MVV152K Law and Speech

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Dennis Wassouf (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tomáš Havlíček (assistant)
Mgr. et Mgr. Bc. Hynek Vrána (assistant)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MVV152K/01: Mon 30. 9. to Fri 20. 12. Mon 12:00–13:40 S125, M. Štěpáníková
Prerequisites
none
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 18/18, only registered: 18/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 17/18
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_) (2)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
At the end of the course students will be able to: understand to the Law and Humanities approach; to explain and critically analyse political and artistic speeches dealing with legal issues; formulate own interpretation of emphasized issues both in spoken and written form. The aim of this subject is to improve stylistic, analytic and communication skills of students in order to strengthen their ability to use rhetoric to higher level.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of spoken speech in various specific historical periods;
- analyze the speech from rhetorical theory point of view;
- argue within the mini moot court;
- analyze artistic texts in the perspective of Law and Literature;
- prepare and deliver the final word on the case.
Syllabus
  • 1. Ancient tragedies: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides ; Aristotle's Poetics;
  • Ancient knowledge of rhetoric and the speeches of the classical rhetors, the Philippics - their reflection in today's conception of justice.
  • 2 Medieval literature: St. Augustine and evil, theatrical moralities, humanistic school theatre: Comenius, Jesuits
  • - their influence on today's understanding of the categories of good and evil
  • 3. Renaissance and Mannerist drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Machiavelli; defenses of defendants in  Albigot political trials
  • - parallels to today's perception of the phenomenon of power
  • 4. 19th century - 1914: romanticism, realism and naturalism: Mácha, Chekhov, Ibsen, Balzac, Zola; theatrical avant-garde and social criticism; speeches of T. G. M. and other Czech and world politicians in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century.
  • - current meanings of social criticism of society.
  • 5. World War I and the interwar period in art and public speeches: speeches by prominent statesmen in border moments, plays with  thematic themes
  • - Impact on the understanding of responsibility in modern democracies.
  • 6. World War II and the 1950s in art and public speeches: speeches by leading figures on both sides of the conflict, theatrical productions explicitly and implicitly containing the anti-war attitudes of their creators, the issue of "witch hunts" and its contemporary consequences.
  • 7 - 8. 1960s: the Prague Spring in the projections of politicians and the works of official and banned artists; Czech drama of the second half of the 20th century: Havel, Kundera
  • - Issues of the cultural and political legacy of this period 10. Revolutionary year 1989 and the 1990s: political speeches of the Velvet Revolution personalities and its reflections in literature and theatre.
  • - The question of revenge in the change of the state system and its contemporary implications.
  • 11. Contemporary Czech parliamentary culture in concrete speeches and in artistic reactions to them.
  • - What are the main dilemmas in  current not only legal cultural reality.
  • 12. End of the course: evaluation of students' work.
Literature
    required literature
  • Dále dle interaktivní osnovy.
    recommended literature
  • PERELMAN, Chaïm and Lucie OLBRECHTS-TYTECA. The new rhetoric : a treatise on argumentation. Translated by John Wilkinson - Purcell Weaver. Repr. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, x, 566. ISBN 0268004463. info
  • URBANOVÁ, Martina a Miloš VEČEŘA. Rétorika pro právníky. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2009, 279 s. ISBN 9788073802172.
  • KRAUS, Jiří. Rétorika v evropské kultuře i ve světě. 2., přepracované vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2011, 248 stran. ISBN 9788024620015. URL info
  • The promise of reasonstudies in The new rhetoric. Edited by John T. Gage - Chaïm Perelman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011, viii, 264. ISBN 9780809386284. info
  • What is the new rhetoric? Edited by Susan E. Thomas. Newcastle [England]: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007, xvi, 201 p. ISBN 9781443807807. info
Teaching methods
Analysing, discussing and performing pieces of literature and rhetoric speeches; lectures; disputable seminars
Assessment methods
1 video on one of the given topics, final presentation during a moot court
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1422/podzim2014/MVV152K/index.qwarp
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
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