Mx205p Logic for Lawyers

Faculty of Law
Spring 2001
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: -.
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Karin Brzobohatá, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Karin Brzobohatá, Ph.D.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites
Previous knowledge of the subject is not assumed
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
Course objectives
Subject goal: The subject concentrates on specific problems of legal reasoning. Its goal is to introduce terminology of logic and the system of logical patterns, which can be applied in legal work. It contains purposefully chosen general information of logic which is targeted and systematized to be casily applied by the future lawyers.
Syllabus
  • History of logic in brief, Modern Logic and Law, Propositional calculus, Predicate calculus, Nature and tasks of legal logic, General and legal methodology and its logical basis (definitions, theory of argumentation). Lectures: 1. The Nature of Logic, Tasks of Logic, Classical Laws of Logic, Branches of Logic, Legal Logic 2. History of Logic I. 3. History of Logic II. 4. General Knowledge of formal Logic 5. Propositional calculus and legal reasoning 6. Predicate calculus and legal reasoning 7. Logic of classes 8. Logic of Relations 9. Non-clasical logic, prescriptive logic 10. General and legal methodology and its logical bases (definition) 11. Theory of Argumentation, Argumentation in Law I. 12. Theory of Argumentation, Argumentation in Law II.
Literature
  • ŠTĚPÁN, Jan. Formální logika. 2. přeprac. vyd. Olomouc: FIN, 1995, 109 s. ISBN 80-7182-004-0. info
  • WEINBERGER, Ota. Základy právní logiky. Vyd. 1. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1993, 263 s. ISBN 802100827X. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Přednáška: ústní seznámení se základními obsahovými poznatky. Seminář: praktické cvičení teoretických poznatků.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000.
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/law/spring2001/Mx205p