CM103Z General History of Law - Seminar

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Ladislav Vojáček, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Bc. Jaromír Tauchen, Ph.D., LL.M. Eur.Int. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Ladislav Vojáček, CSc.
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
Timetable of Seminar Groups
CM103Z/01: Mon 29. 9. to Fri 19. 12. each odd Thursday 16:40–18:10 259, J. Tauchen
CM103Z/02: Mon 29. 9. to Fri 19. 12. each even Thursday 16:40–18:10 259, J. Tauchen
CM103Z/03: Mon 29. 9. to Fri 19. 12. each odd Friday 9:35–11:05 148, J. Tauchen
CM103Z/04: Mon 29. 9. to Fri 19. 12. each even Friday 9:35–11:05 148, J. Tauchen
CM103Z/05: No timetable has been entered into IS. L. Vojáček
Prerequisites (in Czech)
NOW( CM103Zk General History 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
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The sense of teaching Legal History is to enable students to gain information about basic trends of state and law development in Europe and some non-European states so that they would understand Czech legal order and its past development in general context.
Syllabus
  • Development in periods. Ancient state and law. Medieval law and state (early centralization,disintegration,monarchy of the estates), absolutism, modern state and law. Estates, feud system, position of servants. Role and position of the monarch, central and local institutions. Sources of law, legal relics. Legal particularism. Perception of Roman law. Differences in development of continental and English law. Most important codification of 18th and 19th centuries. Constitutional Development of European states and USA. Characteristics of law and state development in the I.half of 19th century. Totalitarian regimes in 20th. Century characteristic features of law in 20th century.
Literature
    required literature
  • VOJÁČEK, L and KOL. Nástin právních dějin. 1st ed. Brno: MU - MUNIPRESS, 2011. info
  • VOJÁČEK, Ladislav, Ondřej HORÁK, Pavel SALÁK, Karel SCHELLE, Jaromír TAUCHEN, Renata VESELÁ and Eduard VLČEK. Praktikum právních dějin (Legal History Practicum). Ladislav Vojáček a kolektiv: Praktikum právních dějin. 3rd ed. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2009, 251 pp. Právo. info
  • SCHELLE, Karel, Marta KADLECOVÁ, Renata VESELÁ, Eduard VLČEK, Michaela ŽIDLICKÁ, Ladislav VOJÁČEK and Ilona SCHELLEOVÁ. Právní dějiny (Legal History). 1st ed. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2007, 1134 pp. Právo. ISBN 978-80-7380-043-7. info
Teaching methods
In the classes different documents are analysed and discussed.
Assessment methods
fulfilling requirements
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013.
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