MV816K Legal Persons of Civil Law

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Jan Hurdík, DrSc. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Kateřina Ronovská, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Bc. Luboš Brim, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Bohumil Havel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Michal Janoušek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Vlastimil Pihera, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Anna Zemandlová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Adam Holubář, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Jana Malá (assistant)
Mgr. Tomáš Vohrabal (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Kateřina Ronovská, Ph.D.
Department of Civil Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Alice Dvořáková
Supplier department: Department of Civil Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
General knowledge on the conception of legal persons (civil law) and business corporations
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 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 29/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The main objectives of the course are: - to give to the students the multispecialty and systemic survey respecting Czech Law of generally Legal Persons, division to Corporations/Associations and Foundations, its private Law and public Law regulation, and basic knowledge about legal regulations of foreign not-for-profit legal persons. At the end of the course, students should be able to: - understand and explain the legal position of legal persons and also not-for-profit legal persons in the system of social relationships and legal regulation, - to apply the Law on Associations and Foundations in the practice
- to define the basic terms alegal persons and its categorisation, purpose and other features;
- to describe the developments in the area of law on legal persons in European Context
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student should be able to: Understand and explain the basic structure of the regulation of legal entities under private law (especially those regulated in the CC), as well as their position within the legal system; Gain basic professional knowledge, skills in relation to legal entities; Name the basic current problems and think about their possible solutions.
Syllabus
  • A theoretical, historical, and comparative introduction to the study of legal persons. Legal persons de lege lata: categorization, purpose, basic characteristics Legal persons de lege lata: corporate (foundation) governance question, internal organization, etc. Foundation Law I. General legal characteristics of Foundation. Foundation Law II. Contemporary legal regulation of the Foundations. Trust-like instruments Institutions (Ustavy) of civil and public law Association Law I. General legal characteristics of the Associations Association Law II. Contemporary legal regulation of the Association. Legal persons in the European context Actual topic Evaluation of Semester thesis
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Hurdík, Jan: Právnické osoby a jejich typologie. 1.vyd. C.H.Beck. Praha 2003
  • RONOVSKÁ, Kateřina, Vlastimil VITOUL and Jana BÍLKOVÁ. Nové spolkové právo v otázkách a odpovědích (New Law on Association: Questions and answers). 1st ed. Praha: Nakladatelství Leges, s.r.o., 2014, 256 pp. Praktik. ISBN 978-80-7502-020-8. info
  • RONOVSKÁ, Kateřina. Nadační fond po rekodifikaci soukromého práva. Subsidiarita, či analogie uvnitř nadačního práva? (Endowment fund after recodification of private law. Subsidiarity or analogy in Foundation Law?). Právní rozhledy. Praha: Nakladatelství C. H. Beck, s. r. o., 2013, vol. 21, 13-14, p. 494-499. ISSN 1210-6410. info
  • RONOVSKÁ, Kateřina. Nové české nadační právo v evropském srovnání (New Czech Law on Foundations in a Comparative European Perspective). 1. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2012, 348 pp. Právní monografie. ISBN 978-80-7357-971-5. info
  • TELEC, Ivo. Spolkové právo. Vyd. 1. Praha: C.H. Beck, 1998, xix, 254. ISBN 8071791946. info
Teaching methods
The teaching in the course has the form of conferences and self-study; the students elaborate, during the course, written homework, and present the individual projects. E-learning added.
Assessment methods
During the course, the students are obliged to write a semester paper.
The students have obliged to submit to the teacher the solution of case study.
At the end of the course, the students take a colloquium (oral discuss with the teacher).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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