D2DIS04 Preparatory Work on Doctoral Thesis II - Review in a Journal

Faculty of Law
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Ing. Josef Šilhán, Ph.D.
Faculty of Law
Supplier department: Faculty of 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
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Course objectives
The purpose of the course is to develop the student's critical thinking, to develop the ability to understand the essence of professional publications and to critically evaluate them, but also to recognize the essential features of a quality professional work and to draw inspiration from it for their own publishing activities, and on the contrary, to notice and avoid the ills that occur in professional publications.
Learning outcomes
- the ability to better identify the essential features of a quality professional work - gaining inspiration for one's own publishing activities - recognising the ills that occur in professional publications and being better able to avoid them on the basis of their identification
Syllabus
  • Syllabus is elaborated individually according to the agreement with the supervisor within the framework of the individual study plan. A student agrees with his supervisor on selected publication a review of which he will elaborate.
Literature
  • Publikace k recenzi bude stanovena v dohodě se školitelem.
Teaching methods
individual consultation
Assessment methods
The course ends with a colloquium, in which the student and the supervisor discuss the prepared review. The review must meet the appropriate professional parameters - it must not be a mere annotation, a description of the content of the publication, nor should it be an advertising message recommending the purchase of the publication. It is recommended to avoid common mistakes, such as structuring the text mechanically according to the chapters of the reviewed monograph and only descriptively summarizing the content that is presented in the individual chapters. Such a (pseudo)review is unlikely to be published in any quality journal. A review should be a professional text in its own right, in which its author can provide a critical view of the various parameters of the reviewed publication, including its systematics, its focus and breadth of coverage, methodology, level of expertise, depth of argumentation, usefulness of conclusions, breadth and representativeness of sources used, clarity, readability and readability, etc. Often, it also provides a confrontation with other published works in the field (it is therefore quite common to work with other expert sources in a review) and puts the topics discussed in a broader context. Examples of some published reviews for inspiration: p. 58-60: https://www.cak.cz/assets/komora/bulettin-advokacie/ba_9_2016_web.pdf) http://actaff.zcu.cz/export/sites/ffacta/files/archiv/2020/Acta-FF-c-1/7-Acta-2020-1-recenze_2.pdf https://advokatnidenik.cz/2020/09/29/jiri-svestka-jan-dvorak-josef-fiala-a-kol-obcansky-zakonik-komentar-svazek-i-%C2%A7-1-az-654-2/ https://journals.muni.cz/cpvp/article/view/13321/11452 https://journals.muni.cz/cpvp/article/view/13978/11739 https://journals.muni.cz/cpvp/article/view/14444/11966
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2025.
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