PrF:SOC015 Czech Legal Culture - Course Information
SOC015 Czech Legal Culture
Faculty of LawSpring 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- JUDr. Bc. Terezie Smejkalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- JUDr. Bc. Terezie Smejkalová, Ph.D.
Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: prof. JUDr. Ing. Michal Radvan, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law - Timetable
- Mon 21. 2. to Fri 20. 5. Wed 18:00–19:40 259
- Prerequisites
- There are no special requirements or prerequisites. The course is suitable also for students of non-legal disciplines.
- 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 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme CST, KOS)
- Multidisciplinary studies at Faculty of Law (programme CST, KOS)
- Multidisciplinary studies (programme PrF, KOS)
- Course objectives
- The aim of this course is to provide for a systematic introduction to the Czech legal culture.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
- understand the historical, political and social foundations of the Czech Law
- to understand and analyze the structure and system of the Czech Law
- to understand and analyze the structure of the Czech Judiciary
- to understand and analyze the structure of Czech legal professions
- to critically compare Czech legal system with their European and Common-law counterparts - Syllabus
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is culture? What is legal culture?
- 3. The basics (Constitution and Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms)
- 4. 1989: The regime change
- 5. Historical context: Trial with Milada Horáková
- 6. Legal authorities I.: Texts (aka Sources of Law)
- 7. Cases I: Pl. ÚS 27/09 - Shortening the Term of Office of Chamber of Deputies
- 8. Legal authorities II.: People (Judges and Lawyers; ethical standards of their professions)
- 9. Cases II: I. ÚS 2617/15 - Restriction of Judges' freedom of expression; I. ÚS 3018/14 - Scope of Parliamentary indemnity
- 10. Legal authorities III. Who writes the laws/legal texts? (Does legal language produce elites? What are the consequences?)
- 11. Assignment presentations
- 12. Exam
- Literature
- veškerá studijní literatura bude studentům poskytnuta prostřednictvím interaktivní osnovy / all readings will be provided within the interactive syllabus
- Teaching methods
- Interactive seminars - students will prepare and submit assignments related to the topics of the lectures
- Assessment methods
- - at least 4 out of 6 in-course assignments for seminars marked with A or B (cca 2 pages A4, 12pt, single-spacing, deadline at 12:00 on the day of respective seminar) - relevance 40% - exam (2 short essays, timed, open-book, in-class - online) - relevance 60%; each 30%
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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