PrF:D2USP03 Constitutional Law II - Course Information
D2USP03 Constitutional Law II
Faculty of LawSpring 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Jan Svatoň, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Vojtěch Šimíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc.
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 - Prerequisites
- Fulfillment of the requirements for course credit D2USPO3 Constitutional Law II
- 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
- Constitutional Law and Theory of State (programme PrF, D-TPV4) (2)
- Course objectives
- Constitutional Law introduces students in basic problems of the theory of the constitution and in values the constitution of the Czech Republic is based on. Further deals with the 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), then with the relation of state and individuals (citizenship, fundamental rights and freedom, their protection, constitutional foundations of the status of foreigners).
- Learning outcomes
- Upon completion of the course, students will have a thorough mastery of the theory of fundamental rights, constitutional regulation and case law based on the study of the main commentaries on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.
- Syllabus
- Concept, subject and sources of the Czech constitutional law. Continuity and discontinuity in the development of the Czech constitutional law. Constitutional accountability. Constitution as a fundamental law. Interpretation and application of the Czech constitution. International law and the municipal law. Promulgation of statutes and other legal regulations. Right to associate and the right of the political parties in the Czech Republic. Electoral law and its principles. Electoral procedure. Judicial protection of franchise. Direct democracy in the Czech Republic. Territorial organisation of the Czech Republic. Frontiers. Capital. Citizenship. Concept. Principles of legal regulation. International agreements. How the Czech citizenship is acquired and lost. Charter of fundamental rights and freedoms. Notion of fundamental right and freedom. Classification. Freedom, liberty, equality, dignity, non-discrimination. State power in the Czech Republic. Constitutional concept. Separation of powers. State power and self-government. Legal status of a state body (organ). Parliamentarism in the Czech Republic. Constitutional status of the Parliament. Bicameral structure. Legislative process. Legal position of Members of the Parliament. Executive power. The head of State. The government and other administrative offices. The Constitutional Court. Legal status. Competence. Types of judicial procedures before the Constitutional Court. Judicial power in the Czech constitution. Legal status, position, activity. The State Attorney's Office. The Supreme Auditing Office. The Czech National Bank. Constitutional foundations of territorial self-government. Other forms of self-government.
- Literature
- required literature
- Ústava České republiky. Ústavní zákon o bezpečnosti České republiky. Komentář. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR 2015. ISBN 978-80-7478-809-3.
- FILIP, Jan. Ústavní právo České republiky. 1, Základní pojmy a instituty. Ústavní základy ČR. 4. opr. a dopl. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2003, 556 s. (Edice učebnic PrF MU v Brně ; sv. 330). ISBN 80-210-3254-5. info
- recommended literature
- Listina základních práv a svobod. Komentář. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, a. s., 2012. Komentáře. ISBN 978-80-7357-750-6
- 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
- PAVLÍČEK, Václav. Ústavní právo a státověda. 3. vydání. Praha: Leges, 2020, 1160 stran. ISBN 9788075024688. info
- Ústava České republiky : komentář. Edited by Vladimír Sládeček - Vladimír Mikule - Radovan Suchánek - Jindři. 2. vydání. V Praze: C.H. Beck, 2016, xviii, 130. ISBN 9788074005909. 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
- BLAHOŽ, Josef, Vladimír BALAŠ and Karel KLÍMA. Srovnávací ústavní právo. 5., přeprac. a dopl. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2015, 519 s. ISBN 9788074786877. info
- not specified
- Zákon o Ústavním soudu s komentářem. Edited by Eliška Wagnerová. 1. vyd. Praha: ASPI, 2007, x, 624. ISBN 9788073573058. info
- KLOKOČKA, Vladimír. Ústavní řízení evropských států. 1. vyd. Praha: Linde, 1996, 415 s. ISBN 8072010107. info
- WEYR, František. Československé právo ústavní. V Praze: Melantrich, 1937, xii, 339. info
- PRAŽÁK, Jiří. Rakouské právo veřejné. Díl první, Právo ústavní. Rakouské právo ústavní. Čásť třetí, Ústava říšská, Čásť čtvrtá, Ústava mocnářství celkového. 2. dopl. vyd. V Praze: Nákladem Jednoty právnické, 1903, 478, 249 s. info
- Teaching methods
- individual and group consultations, lectures with discussion on topics from specified literature
- Assessment methods
- Processing of selected literature annotation. Processing a paper on specified subject - in relation to the orientation of the dissertation.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
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