PrF:MVV3568K Fashion Law - Course Information

MVV3568K Fashion Law

Extent and Intensity

1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching

Teacher(s)

JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Filip Čabart (seminar tutor), JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Barbora Donathová, LL.M. (seminar tutor), JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Zuzana Šimonovská, LL.M. (seminar tutor), JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (deputy)
JUDr. Ondřej Trubač, Ph.D., LL.M. (seminar tutor), JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (deputy)
Mgr. Dennis Wassouf (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law

Prerequisites (in Czech)

MP511Zk Intellectual Property

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: 1/20

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

Fashion industry law is an interdisciplinary area of ​​law that includes those legal branches related to the fashion industry and solves specific problems for it - intellectual property law, consumer protection, obligations in the broadest sense (from licenses, through confidentiality, to rental or financing), labor law, competition law, criminal law or environmental law. The course is intended primarily for students of the Faculty of Law, which will enable them to deepen their knowledge of other subjects - such as intellectual property law and civil law.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the basic principles of fashion regulation;
- identify and describe the most important domestic and foreign trends in fashion legislation;
- describe the legal factors that influence consumers to buy the product;
- apply the above knowledge to practical legal problems;
- analyze case law in the field of fashion legislation;
- propose an individualized solution to legal problems in the field of fashion regulation;
- formulate and present this solution to a hypothetical client.

Syllabus

• Block 1:
• 1.1. Introduction - history and development of the law of the fashion industry into a separate legal branch, its place in the system of law, the subject and specifics of the connection between law and the fashion industry
• 1.2. Current development of Fashion Law - cases from history, comparison of approaches in different legal systems and states
• Block 2:
• 2.1. Fashion - sociological-legal view
• 2.2 Constitutional-legal view
• Block 3
• 3.1. Intellectual property in the fashion industry - trademarks, domains, branding
• 3.2. Intellectual property in the fashion industry - legal protection of design, copyrights, industrial designs
• Block 4
• 4.1. Intellectual property in the fashion industry - patents, know-how, trade secrets
• 4.2. Intellectual property in the fashion industry on social networks
• Block 5
• 5.1. Design and production - contracts, labor law issues, international aspects
• 5.2. Production and sale - legal regulation of labeling, legal regulation in the field of environment, incl. protection of endangered species and certification of metals and precious stones
• Block 6
• Presentation of semester projects

Literature

recommended literature
• JIMÉNEZ, Guillermo a Barbara KOLSUN. Fashion law: a guide for designers, fashion executives, and attorneys. Second edition. New York, NY: Fairchild Books, 2014.
• HANCOCK, Joseph. Brand/story: Ralph, Vera, Johnny, Billy, and other adventures in fashion branding. New York: Fairchild Books, 2009
• FURI-PERRY, Ursula. The little book of fashion law. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association, 2013. HEMPHILL, C. Scott; SUK, Jeannie. The law, culture, and economics of fashion. Stanford Law Review, 2009, 1147-1199.

Teaching methods

Lectures will take place in six two-hour blocks. The first and second blocks of teaching will be focused more theoretically as a necessary basis for understanding the issue in a broader context, necessary for de lege ferenda considerations. The lectures of the first block will be mainly discussed and the basic mechanisms of the given legal area will be identified in cooperation with students on the overview of cases from the past. The next three blocks will be exclusively practical and the method of solving model cases, based on the experience of lecturers from practice, will lead students to individual solutions to these problems. Emphasis will be placed on the students' ability to obtain and determine relevant information about the case, the formulation of related texts of contracts or submissions, etc., as well as the oral presentation of the created solutions. The quality control of these acquired skills will subsequently also be the content of the colloquium, consisting of the presentation of semester projects, in the last block.

Assessment methods

Colloquium composed of points for class activity, a semester project and a test.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.

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