PrF:MV855K International Treaty - Course Information

MV855K International Treaty in International, EU and National Law

Extent and Intensity

0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. et Mgr. Linda Janků, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. JUDr. Vladimír Týč, CSc.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Jana Dopitová
Supplier department: Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law

Timetable of Seminar Groups

MV855K/01: Mon 29. 2. to Fri 20. 5. Wed 13:30–15:00 214, V. Týč
MV855K/02: No timetable has been entered into IS. V. Týč

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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)

Course objectives

Students will acquire the knowledge of the notion of international treaty first from the point of view of international law. Then they will pass to the Czech law and finally the EU law. The purpose of the course is to make students able to understand the whole system, where those three systems are mixed and linked. Students should be able to become familiar with the process of the conclusion of the international treaty including reservations, its interpretation, and application noz only in the international field but also by Czech courts and administrative bodies. The essential feature of the course is the entire and complexe access to the international treaty as a combined institute of internetional, national and EU law.

Syllabus

• 1. The substance of the notion of international treaty within three dimensions of law (international, internal, EU)
• 2. Categories of treaties and principles of international treaty law
• 3. The process of the conclusion of the treaty in international and Czech law. Entry into force
• 4. EU treaty-making power
• 5. Cases when the treaty becomes nul and void
• 6. Reservations
• 7. Interpretation
• 8. Transfer of the treaty into the Czech law, its effects and application
• 9. Treaty in EU law, obligations of the Czech Republic as a member state
• 10. The control of constitutionality of treaties according to the Czech Constitution and EU law
• Practical part:
• 1. Negotiations of the treaty, its approval by Czech organs
• 2. Making reservations
• 3. Interpretation
• 4. Application by national organs
• 5. Treaty obligations of the Czech Republic concerning treaties concluded by the EU

Literature

required literature
• TÝČ, Vladimír. Mezinárodní, české a unijní právo mezinárodních smluv. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013 (skripta)

recommended literature
• MIKEŠ, Petr. Aplikace mezinárodního práva v právním řádu ČR pohledem teorie a soudní praxe. Vyd. 1. Praha: Wolters Kluwer Česká republika, 2012, xiv, 309. ISBN 9788073579296. info
• VENZKE, Ingo. How interpretation makes international law : on semantic change and normative twists. 1st ed. pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, xviii, 319. ISBN 9780198712978. info
• International law as law of the European Union. Edited by Enzo Cannizzaro - Paolo Palchetti - Ramses A. Wessel. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012, x, 418. ISBN 9789004188570. info
• The Cambridge companion to international law. Edited by James Crawford - Martti Koskenniemi - Surabhi Ranganathan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, xi, 471. ISBN 9780521143080. info
• Vienna convention on the law of treaties : a commentary. Edited by Oliver Dörr - Kirsten Schmalenbach. Berlin: Springer, 2012, liv, 1423. ISBN 9783642192906. info
• ŠTURMA, Pavel, Čestmír ČEPELKA and Vladimír BALAŠ. Právo mezinárodních smluv. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2011, 404 s. ISBN 9788073803414. info
• ARSANJANI, Mahnoush H. The law of treaties beyond the Vienna Convention. Edited by Enzo Cannizzaro. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xxxi, 464. ISBN 9780199588916. info
• The Vienna Conventions on the law of treaties : a commentary. Edited by Olivier Corten - Pierre Klein. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, s. vi-xiii. ISBN 9780199573530. info
• Commentary on the 1969 Vienna Convention on the law of treaties. Edited by Mark E. Villiger. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009, xxxiv, 105. ISBN 9789004168046. info
• GARDINER, Richard K. Treaty interpretation. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, xxxix, 407. ISBN 9780199277919. info
• VERWEY, Delano R. The European Community, the European Union and the international law of treaties : a comparative legal analysis of the community and union's external treaty-making practice. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2004, xii, 308. ISBN 9067041823. info
• PAZARTZÎ, Fōteinî. La succession d'états aux traités multilatéraux : à la lumière des mutations territoriales récentes. Edited by Pierre Michel Eisemann. Paris: Éditions A. Pedone, 2002, 240 s. ISBN 2233003993. info
• ČEPELKA, Čestmír. Právo mezinárodních smluv : Vídeňská úmluva o smluvním právu (1969) - s komentářem. 1. vyd. Praha: Karolinum, 1999, 202 s. ISBN 8071849707. info
• REUTER, Paul. Introduction au droit des traités [Presses Universitaires de France, 1995]. 3. éd. / revue et augmentée. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1995, xi, 251 s. ISBN 2-13-047263-X. info
• PĚCHOTA, Vratislav. Mnohostranné mezinárodní smlouvy a přístup k nim. Vyd. 1. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1965, 243 s. info
• MCNAIR, Arnold Duncan McNair. The law of treaties. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961, xxi, 789. ISBN 0198251521. info

Teaching methods

Interactive lecture, seminar with discussion

Assessment methods

Essay on a given subject, discussion on its conclusions (coloquium)

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

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