MVE006K History of the Czech Judiciary

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
JUDr. David Kolumber, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. David Kolumber, Ph.D.
Department of the History of the State and Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Zuzana Suchá
Supplier department: Department of the History of the State and Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites (in Czech)
NOW( MP201Zk Czech Legal History )
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 75 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/75, only registered: 0/75, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/75
Course objectives
Almost all legal professions cooperate and are closely related to justice. Graduands will realize that the current justice is not based solely on effective legislation, but many internal procedures, processes, and settings have their legal-historical backgrounds. The course is dedicated to key determinants of the judicial organization which help to understand the background of many elements of contemporary justice. The matter of the course allows better orientation and acquisition of key competencies for future professional life.
At the end of the course, students will understand the reasons and organization of the judiciary in the Czech Republic, its historical and theoretical background, they will know the basic features of the structure and organization of justice and the main factors influencing the justice.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
- understand the reasons and the organization of the Czech judiciary;
- understand the functioning of justice in the various stages of its development according to its historical context;
- characterize the stages of the development of the judiciary in the Czech lands from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present;
- analyze the causes and results of judicial reforms;
- situate the current form of justice into a historical context;
- make out in the internal organization of the court;
- know the terminology and nomenclature used at courts.
Syllabus
  • Court in time
  • Judge in time
  • Court decision in time
  • Task - file
  • Task - court
Literature
    required literature
  • SCHELLE, Karel and Jiří BÍLÝ. Dějiny českého soudnictví. Vydání první. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2018, 506 stran. ISBN 9788075529596. info
    recommended literature
  • PRINC, Michal. Soudnictví v českých zemích v letech 1848-1938 : (soudy, soudní osoby, dobové problémy). Vydání první. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2015, xiii, 329. ISBN 9788074787973. info
  • VOJÁČEK, Ladislav, Karel SCHELLE and Vilém KNOLL. České právní dějiny (Czech Legal History). 3. vydání. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2016, 694 pp. ISBN 978-80-7380-575-3. info
  • TAUCHEN, Jaromír, Ladislav VOJÁČEK, David KOLUMBER, Pavel SALÁK and Ondřej HORÁK. České právní dějiny po roce 1989 (Czech Legal History after 1989). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2023, 220 pp. č.560. ISBN 978-80-280-0227-5. info
  • ADAMOVÁ, Karolina. Dějiny českého soudnictví od počátků české státnosti do roku 1938. Vyd. 1. Praha: LexisNexis CZ, 2005, 231 s. ISBN 8086920070. info
  • Československá justice v letech 1948-1953 v dokumentech. Edited by Jaroslav Vorel - Alena Šimánková. Vyd. 1. Praha: Úřad dokumentace a vyšetřování zločinů komunismu PČR, 2003, 415 s. ISBN 8086621030. info
  • MOKRÝ, Antonín. Soudce Antonín Mokrý vzpomíná. Edited by Jan Kotous. 1. vydání. [Praha]: Univerzita Karlova - Právnická fakulta, Ediční středisko, 2018, 137 stran. ISBN 9788087975770. info
  • NEDĚLKA, Václav. Soudce v čase práva i bezpráví : paměti Václava Nedělky (1881-1965). Edited by Pavel B. Kůrka. Praha: Historický ústav, 2013, 223 s. ISBN 9788072862146. info
  • KOSAŘ, David, Radim POLČÁK and Kateřina ŠIMÁČKOVÁ. Komunistické právo v Československu : kapitoly z dějin bezpráví. Edited by Michal Bobek - Pavel Molek - Vojtěch Šimíček. 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Mezinárodní politologický ústav, 2009, 1005 stran. ISBN 9788021048447. info
  • KANDALEC, Pavel. Ota Ulč: Komunistická justice a třídní boj (Communist Justice and Class Struggle). Brno: Stilus Press spol. s r. o., Vojenský historický ústav, 2016, 252 pp. ISBN 978-80-87122-99-0. info
  • ZÍTEK, Adam and Jaroslav PAŽOUT. Lexikon nejvyšších představitelů československé justice a prokuratury v letech 1948-1989. Vydání první. Praha: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, 2019, 346 stran. ISBN 9788088292364. info
  • SLÁMA, František. Pletky: nové zápisky soudce. Opava: Nákladem Slezské kroniky, 1890. 130 s.
  • SCHELLE, Karel. Vývoj trestního řízení. Vyd. 1. Ostrava: Key Publishing, 2012, 100 s. ISBN 9788087475140. info
Teaching methods
A course is the delivery of a series of lessons on a web browser or mobile device, which can be accessed anytime and anyplace. It is designed as an online environment for convenient learning asynchronously with the exception of consultations in MS Teams.
Assessment methods
Course completion requirements: Viewing all lectures; passing the final tests after individual blocks; achieve of two tasks; participation in consultations. The conditions for the colloquium's passing are expounded in the interactive syllabus.
Language of instruction
Czech
Teacher's information
More pieces of information about the organization of the course and the conditions for its completion can be found in the interactive syllabus.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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