DPVP06 Work on Doctoral Thesis - Review in a Journal

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Ing. Josef Šilhán, Ph.D.
Faculty of Law
Supplier department: Faculty 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
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Course objectives
The course is a part of the topical complex Initiation of Preparation of Dissertation Thesis. The purpose of this course is to develop a student`s critical thinking, development of skills of defining fundamental features of scientific work and comprehension its substance. At the end of the course a student submits a review to the publication in scientific press.
Learning outcomes
- the ability to better identify the essential features of a quality professional work - gaining inspiration for one's own publishing activities - recognising the ills that occur in professional publications and being better able to avoid them on the basis of their identification
Syllabus
  • Syllabus is elaborated individually according to the agreement with the supervisor within the framework of the individual study plan. A student agrees with his supervisor on selected publication a review of which he will elaborate.
Teaching methods
consultation
Assessment methods
The course ends with a colloquium, in which the student and the supervisor discuss the prepared review. The review must meet the appropriate professional parameters - it must not be a mere annotation, a description of the content of the publication, nor should it be an advertising message recommending the purchase of the publication. It is recommended to avoid common mistakes, such as structuring the text mechanically according to the chapters of the reviewed monograph and only descriptively summarizing the content that is presented in the individual chapters. Such a (pseudo)review is unlikely to be published in any quality journal. A review should be a professional text in its own right, in which its author can provide a critical view of the various parameters of the reviewed publication, including its systematics, its focus and breadth of coverage, methodology, level of expertise, depth of argumentation, usefulness of conclusions, breadth and representativeness of sources used, clarity, readability and readability, etc. Often, it also provides a confrontation with other published works in the field (it is therefore quite common to work with other expert sources in a review) and puts the topics discussed in a broader context. Examples of some published reviews for inspiration: p. 58-60: https://www.cak.cz/assets/komora/bulettin-advokacie/ba_9_2016_web.pdf) http://actaff.zcu.cz/export/sites/ffacta/files/archiv/2020/Acta-FF-c-1/7-Acta-2020-1-recenze_2.pdf https://advokatnidenik.cz/2020/09/29/jiri-svestka-jan-dvorak-josef-fiala-a-kol-obcansky-zakonik-komentar-svazek-i-%C2%A7-1-az-654-2/ https://journals.muni.cz/cpvp/article/view/13321/11452 https://journals.muni.cz/cpvp/article/view/13978/11739 https://journals.muni.cz/cpvp/article/view/14444/11966
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Spring 2014, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
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