MVV36K Legal History and Film – Manipulation of People and History

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. JUDr. Pavel Salák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. JUDr. Bc. Jaromír Tauchen, Ph.D., LL.M. Eur.Int. (seminar tutor)
prof. JUDr. Ladislav Vojáček, CSc. (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
Prerequisites (in Czech)
( MP103Zk General History of Law || CM103Zk General History of Law ) && !NOWANY( MVV35K Czech Legal History and Film )
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: 24/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to:
to review legal and artistic vision of history;
to illustrate and understand distinction between medieval and contemporary concept of law;
to illustrate manipulating people in totalitarian societies (Soviet and Nazi);
to illustrate a period manipulation with historical experience
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to: - to realize the impact of legal regulations, their real application and the overall political situation in various stages of historical development on the life of an individual in a specific situation and in the context of European development, - thanks to the knowledge of legal history, to understand some of the processes that took place in law and state development recently, or are currently underway.
Syllabus
  • 1. Medieval Court Trial;
  • 2.France in modern history;
  • 3.Germany in the first half of the 20th century;
  • 4.Soviet Russia in modern history;
  • 5.Soviet bloc states in modern history.
Literature
  • VOJÁČEK, Ladislav, Eduard VLČEK, Karel SCHELLE, Jaromír TAUCHEN, Ondřej HORÁK and Naďa ŠTACHOVÁ. Evropské právní dějiny (European Legal History). 1st ed. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2009, 253 pp. Právo. ISBN 978-80-210-5087-7. info
  • Dějiny evropského kontinentálního práva : vysokoškolská právnická učebnice. 2. dopl. vyd. Praha: Linde, 2004, 852 s. ISBN 8072014900. info
  • PELIKÁN, Dragutin. Dějiny ruského práva. Vyd. 1. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2000, 116 s. ISBN 80-7179-432-5. info
  • KNAPP, Viktor. Problém nacistické právní filosofie. Vyd. 1. Praha: Právnické knihkupectví a nakladatelství V. Linhart, 1947, 231 s. info
Teaching methods
a film projection and guided discussion
Assessment methods
continuous tests
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every other week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms 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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