MVV152K Law and Speech

Faculty of Law
Autumn 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Martina Urbanová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Bc. Terezie Smejkalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
JUDr. Bc. Markéta Štěpáníková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Dennis Wassouf (assistant)
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 of Seminar Groups
MVV152K/01: Mon 26. 9. to Fri 16. 12. Wed 14:00–15:40 034, M. Štěpáníková
Prerequisites
none
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 18 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 12/18, only registered: 10/18, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 10/18
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 will be able to: understand to the Law and Humanities approach; to explain and critically analyse political and artistic speeches dealing with legal issues; formulate own interpretation of emphasized issues both in spoken and written form. The aim of this subject is to improve stylistic, analytic and communication skills of students in order to strengthen their ability to use rhetoric to higher level.
Learning outcomes
Student will be able to:
- identify and summarize important features of spoken speech in various specific historical periods;
- analyze the speech from rhetorical theory point of view;
- argue within the mini moot court;
- analyze artistic texts in the perspective of Law and Literature;
- prepare and deliver the final word on the case;
- apply acquired knowledge and skills in simulated international legal negotiation.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to the course; Antic culture: Aischylos, Sofokles, Euripides; Antic rhetoric: Aristoteles; question of justice 2. Medieval culture: St. Augustin and Evil, theatre moralities, question of Good and Evil in law 3. Renaissance culture: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Machiavelli; defence in trials of Elizabethan era; question of Power in law 4. 18. – 1914: romanticism, realism a naturalism: Mácha, Čechov, Ibsen, Balzac, Zola; theatre avant-garde a social critic; speeches of TGM; question of critic in society 5. WWI: famous politic speeches, dramas about WWI; question of individual responsibility and law 6. 1918 – 1945: political culture between WWI and WWII; avant-garde: Werich a Voskovec, Čapkové; question of morality and law 20th century 7. WWII: famous politic speeches, dramas about WWII; question of individual bravery 8. 50s: communism vs. pop-culture in a politically- polarized world: SORELA, Williams, O´Neill, Miller; question of “witch-hunts” 9. 60s: the Prague Spring and the Czechoslovak New Vawe; Kohout, Havel, Uhde, Topol; question of “normalisation” 10. 1989: the Velvet revolution and its pictures in art; question of revenge and law 11. 2000- : current political culture in politic speeches and art; Kabaret Havel, Odcházení, Blonďatá bestie; question of corruption and law 12. The end of the course; evaluation.
Literature
    required literature
  • Dále dle interaktivní osnovy.
    recommended literature
  • PERELMAN, Chaïm and Lucie OLBRECHTS-TYTECA. The new rhetoric : a treatise on argumentation. Translated by John Wilkinson - Purcell Weaver. Repr. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, x, 566. ISBN 0268004463. info
  • URBANOVÁ, Martina a Miloš VEČEŘA. Rétorika pro právníky. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2009, 279 s. ISBN 9788073802172.
  • KRAUS, Jiří. Rétorika v evropské kultuře i ve světě. 2., přepracované vydání. Praha: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nakladatelství Karolinum, 2011, 248 stran. ISBN 9788024620015. URL info
  • The promise of reasonstudies in The new rhetoric. Edited by John T. Gage - Chaïm Perelman. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2011, viii, 264. ISBN 9780809386284. info
  • What is the new rhetoric? Edited by Susan E. Thomas. Newcastle [England]: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007, xvi, 201 p. ISBN 9781443807807. info
Teaching methods
Analysing, discussing and performing pieces of literature and rhetoric speeches; lectures; disputable seminars
Assessment methods
5 videos on given topics, presentation of the final paper
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1422/podzim2014/MVV152K/index.qwarp
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2023, Autumn 2024.
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