MP221K Legal Informatics

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Mgr. Jakub Harašta, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. MgA. Jakub Míšek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Tereza Novotná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Andrej Krištofík (assistant)
doc. JUDr. Matěj Myška, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Jakub Vostoupal, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Mgr. Jakub Harašta, Ph.D.
Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Tereza Buchalová
Supplier department: Institute of Law and Technology – Faculty of Law
Timetable
Mon 19. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Tuesday 8:00–9:40 038
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
MP221K/01: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Tuesday 16:00–17:40 024, J. Míšek
MP221K/02: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each odd Tuesday 16:00–17:40 024, J. Harašta
MP221K/03: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Monday 14:00–15:40 024, J. Harašta
MP221K/04: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each odd Monday 14:00–15:40 024, J. Harašta
MP221K/05: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Monday 16:00–17:40 024, J. Míšek
MP221K/06: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Monday 12:00–13:40 024, J. Harašta
MP221K/07: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Tuesday 10:00–11:40 024, J. Míšek
MP221K/08: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each odd Tuesday 10:00–11:40 024, J. Míšek
MP221K/09: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Tuesday 12:00–13:40 024, J. Míšek
MP221K/10: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each odd Tuesday 12:00–13:40 024, J. Harašta
MP221K/11: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each even Tuesday 14:00–15:40 024, J. Míšek
MP221K/12: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each odd Tuesday 14:00–15:40 024, J. Harašta
MP221K/13: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each odd Monday 12:00–13:40 024, J. Harašta
MP221K/14: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. each odd Monday 16:00–17:40 024, J. Míšek
MP221K/15: No timetable has been entered into IS. J. Harašta
Prerequisites
! MP312K Legal Informatics - practice && ! MP314K Legal Informatics && ! MP414K Legal Informatics - practice && ! CM312K Legal informatics - practice && ! CM414K Legal informatics - practice && ! MV425K Legal Informatics && ! MV320K Legal Informatics
Basic computer literacy.
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 285 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 239/285, only registered: 6/285
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_) (2)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV) (2)
Course objectives
The course's main objective is to obtain basic practical skills and orientation in using various sources of legal information.
Learning outcomes
After completing this course, the student is expected to be able to: - understand essential functions of legal information systems and describe any legal information systems through these functions
- find basic legal information on the Internet
- find acts and other legal documents using ASPI, Codexis and Beck-online
- evaluate credibility and validity of retrieved legal information and properly cite retrieved documents
- solve basic legal problems using legal information systems.
- conduct 'legal research' on any legal issue.
Syllabus
  • Lectures: 1. Sources of law. Legal documents. Sources of legal information.
  • 2. Legal information systems. Basic terminology. Principles of legal information retrieval.
  • 3. Czech legal information systems - overview and comparison.
  • 4. European legal information systems - EUR-Lex and HUDOC.
  • 5. Legal research.
  • 6. Present and future of legal informatics.
  • Seminars: 1. Legal information retrieval.
  • 2. Sources of law.
  • 3. ASPI.
  • 4. Beck-online.
  • 5. Codexis.
  • 6. Legal Research.
Literature
Teaching methods
Lectures. Senminars in computer lab. Online tests for continuous evaluation.
Assessment methods
To successfully complete this course students are required to fulfil all requirements set in detail in e-learning application (attendance, online tests and semestral paper).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
General note: Předmět je určen pro nejvýše pro polovinu ročníku. Je prerekvizitou pro státní závěrečnou zkoušku.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024, Spring 2025.
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