MP221K Legal Informatics

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Mgr. Jakub Harašta, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. MgA. Jakub Míšek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Matěj Myška, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Tereza Novotná, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Jakub Vostoupal, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Mgr. Jakub Harašta, Ph.D.
Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
! MP312K Legal Informatics - practice && ! MP314K Legal Informatics && ! MP414K Legal Informatics - practice && ! CM312K Legal informatics - practice && ! CM414K Legal informatics - practice && ! MV425K Legal Informatics && ! MV320K Legal Informatics
Basic computer literacy.
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 200 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/200, only registered: 450/200
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_) (2)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV) (2)
Course objectives
The course's main objective is to obtain basic practical skills and orientation in using various sources of legal information.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- understand the basic functionalities of information systems and use them to describe a specific legal information system
- search for acts and other related documents in ASPI, Codexis and Beck-online systems
- work with publicly available databases of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court
- work with EUR-Lex and CURIA databases
- work with the HUDOC database
- evaluate the reliability and timeliness of the information found and cite documents correctly
- solve simple examples using legal information systems.
- conduct legal research on a given legal problem.
Syllabus
  • Seminars: 1. Theory, concepts.
  • 2. ASPI.
  • 3. Beck-online.
  • 4. Codexis.
  • 5. Other selected databases and legal information systems (NALUS database, Supreme Court database, Supreme Administrative Court database, EUR-Lex, Curia, HUDOC)
  • 6. Legal research.
Literature
Teaching methods
Seminars in computer lab. Self-study and reading. Online tests for continuous evaluation. Term paper.
Assessment methods
To successfully complete this course, students are required to fulfil all the requirements set in detail in the e-learning application (attendance, online tests, term paper). Individual arrangements are preferred for students with permitted ISP (compensation of attendance with other requirements).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Předmět je určen pro nejvýše pro polovinu ročníku. Je prerekvizitou pro státní závěrečnou zkoušku.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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