Evaluation

The course is evaluated on a pass/fail basis. To get the "pass" mark, you have to participate actively during class sessions (you have to attend at least 4 out of 5 sessions) AND fulfil either of these conditions:

1) Written Assignments

There will be an assignment after each session. You need to have at least 4 assignments marked as successfully completed.

OR

2) Final test

Ten multiple-choice questions, 1 point for each correct answer, -1 for an incorrect answer, and 0 for an unanswered question. The threshold to achieve a passing grade is 5 out of 10 points. Each successfully completed assignment can substitute 1 point (e. g. a student has 2 successfully completed assignments and therefore needs only 3 points from the test).

OR

Paper

This option is aimed at those who plan to participate in an essay competition (SVOČ, Ius et Societas or others) and/or publish their work in an academic journal. I will be happy to supervise any topic from the Czech Constitutional Law. Please discuss the topic and your publication strategy (which will also be important for the paper's expected length and style) before November 15. You can reach me during my office hours (Thursdays, 15-16) or via e-mail and MS Teams.

Course materials

Literature

Two main pieces of literature for our course are Mark Tushnet's Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law and The Constitution of Czechia: A Contextual Analysis by David Kosař and Ladislav Vyhnánek. Both books can be borrowed from the library.

Online sources

The English translation of the Czech Constitution

English webpage of the Czech Constitutional Court contains among others:

English translations of all Czech constitutional acts and the statute on the Constitutional court

English translations of selected decisions

Introduction to the Czech legal system by Michal Bobek and Olga Pouperová with many links to sources