Law

Main objective of the study programme “Law and legal science” is to offer thoughtfully theoretical and methodological basis of legal science, knowledge of all national legal fields, European and international law as well as related non-legal scientific disciplines, interdisciplinary links and historical context by conceptually balanced study.

Moreover, the study emphasizes thorough coping with requirements for application of positive law within so-called ability-focused component of education, that is part of methodics of obligatory and majority of obligatorily optional subjects. Undeniable aim in this context is obligatory specialize practice of students.

Another objective of the study is to provide students with an opportunity to acquire sufficient specialized language skills through subjects focused on teaching of specialized language and specialized legal subjects taught in foreign language.

Integral part of the study is focused also on development of rhetoric and ability to formulate professional written text as well as strong emphasizing of attention paid to questions of legal ethics.

The faculty purposefully supports international mobility of students that significantly deepen their professional and language abilities and skills and contribute to their orientation in the international environment.

Master study programme “Law and legal science” is conceived in order to offer education that is required by special legal regulations for discharge of an office of the judge, public prosecutor, executor as well as notary, attorney and arbitrator. On the other hand, structure of taught subjects creates possibilities also for working of graduates in the sphere of public administration, European institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as private sector and academic sphere.

After successfully completing his/her studies the graduate is able to:

• methodology of to theory of law and legal science and legal regulations
• to apprehend systematic links between particular legal fields and between systems of law (national law, law of European Union and international law).
• to formulate normative and legal texts, to use legal terminology and legal argumentation
• to gather and evaluate materials for decisions and other acts, to use scientific and specialized sources and information legal systems and to work with them
• to apply acquired knowledge for resolution of practical cases
• team work, language and social communication on the national and international level
• to work not only in the legal practice, but also in wider social practice

A graduate of the study programme “Law and legal science” will have complex knowledge from all fundamental legal disciplines and majority of related areas, including their interdependence. Furthermore, he or she will dispose of prerequisites for formulation of his or her own opinions and viewpoints on legal regulation of particular institutes, he or she will be able to search, categorize, analyze and interpret legal norms and judicial decisions, to apply acquired knowledge on concrete cases and to argument factually in favour of chosen resolution of legal situation. In addition to such obtained knowledge and skills in administration of legal agenda, the graduate assisted by legal information systems will be able to move in particular legal area including amendments of legal regulation. Such knowledge, abilities and skills create qualifications for access to discharge of an office of the judge, public prosecutor, executor as well as notary, attorney and arbitrator. Moreover, they are of similar significance for working of graduates in the sphere of public administration, European institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as private sector and academic sphere.

Specialized practice is an obligatory part of the Master study programme. Its primary objective is to provide students with higher standard of practical skills gained from specialists from application practice. Students have opportunity to try working in particular legal fields according to their choice during the Specialized practice.

Specialized practice of students consists of 40 working days per whole study. Students can register practice in the 6th semester at the earliest. Sooner performance of practice is not limited with regard to already acquired knowledge of students in essential legal fields, but it is not accepted for the purpose of obligatory Specialized practice.

Faculty provides students with possibility to accomplish Specialized practice at chosen partners, informs students about offers of organizations and institutions, but students can perform practice at provider appointed by them as well.

Students choose topics of diploma theses within particular departments electronically in the IS MUNI system. They may either select from topics offered by the department or suggest topic of their own that usually reflects field of interest of the student. Topics of diploma theses are opted so that student, with assistance of supervisor and with use of specialized literature sources, legal regulations, practice of the courts, event. statistics or practical knowledge of students, can prove his or her ability to formulate compact specialized text, to analyze current level of solution to a specific legal problem, to characterize positive as well as negative aspects of legal regulation of a specific institute and to propose appropriate and argumentatively supported resolution.

For further requirements for the content, extent and form of diploma theses, see Směrnice děkana č. 7/2012 o studiu v bakalářských a magisterských studijních programech (see Direction of the dean no. 7/2012 about study in the Bachelor and Master study programmes) (mainly art. 16 – 19) https://is.muni.cz/do/law/ud/predp/smer/S-07-2012.pdf

Graduate of a Master study programme can (after completion of admission procedure) continue in Doctoral study programme.