PrF:MVV254K Verbatim Theatre for Lawyers - Course Information
MVV254K Verbatim Theatre for Lawyers
Faculty of LawSpring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D.
Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Department of Legal Theory – Faculty of Law - Timetable
- Fri 23. 2. 10:00–11:40 041, 12:00–13:40 041, 14:00–15:40 041, Fri 15. 3. 10:00–11:40 041, 12:00–13:40 041, 14:00–15:40 041, Fri 19. 4. 10:00–11:40 041, 12:00–13:40 041, 14:00–15:40 041, Fri 17. 5. 10:00–11:40 041, 12:00–13:40 041, 14:00–15:40 041
- Timetable of Seminar Groups:
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- SOUHLAS
- 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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 6/15, only registered: 0/15 - fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Course objectives
- The aim of this course is to expand the current teaching at PrF MU by a subject strengthening the ability of students to critically approach the method of creating legal theater from real court proceedings, improve their rhetorical and presentation skills by playing theater and improve legal awareness in the general public by presenting the final production with subsequent discussion of the creators of the production and the audience.
- Learning outcomes
- After completing the course, the student will be able to:
- summarize important aspects of the relationship between law and theater;
- find and interpret legal motives in plays;
- analyze the meaning of the legal motive within a specific game;
- use the ability of critical thinking in dramaturgical changes of dramatic and non-dramatic texts;
- use the skills of legal rhetoric in presenting the production to the audience;
- explain the legal problem in a simplified form to the general public. - Syllabus
- 1 Theater in teaching law 1.1 Selection of suitable court proceedings for staging 2 Court plays in the history of theater 2.1 Adjusting the structure of the court record so that it is suitable for staging 3 How to do a play analysis 3.1 Identification, definition and division of roles 4 Kleist: Broken pitcher 4.1 Language in the game of justice 5 Rose: 12 angry men 5.1 Working with space in court games 6 von Schirach: Terror 6.1 Creating the identity of individual characters 7 Legal issues in court games I Identification of specific legal problems in the selected process 8 Legal problems in court games II 8.1 Identification of specific legal problems in the selected process II 9 Ostension, proof and visualization 9.1 Evidence in the selected process 10 Critical-legal reflection of a staged court case 10.1 Rehearsal of the final form of the production 11 Public general of the final production 11.1 Ibid. 12 Premiere of the final production 12.1 Ibid.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- LEIBOFF, Marett. Towards a theatrical jurisprudence. First published. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2020, xvii, 164. ISBN 9781138672789. info
- not specified
- Dále dle interaktivní osnovy.
- Teaching methods
- The teaching itself will consist of 12 lectures and 12 seminars, of which the lectures will gradually introduce all the necessary theoretical aspects of doing legal theatre (including the ability to analyze important games connecting law and theater) and in the seminars students will use this knowledge in practice in preparing a legal theatre production.
- Assessment methods
- Continuous work during the semester, creation of own theatrical mini-production.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2024, recent)
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