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Law

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Course Unit Code119-0300/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated3 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Third Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
HAL30JUDr. Bohuslav Halfar
GOD20Mgr. Pavel Godický
MAR22JUDr. Jana Martiníková, Ph.D.
KRU53Ing. Martina Krügerová, Ph.D.
MAS126Bc. Hana Masaříková
MAS0001JUDr. Hana Masaříková
CZU0006Dr Mgr. Damian Czudek, Ph.D.
KOZ0138Dr Mgr. Michal Kozieł, Ph.D.
BAR0580Mgr. Richard Bartes, Ph.D.
Summary
This subject is aimed to have students orientate in the law. First of all to explain them the basic terms of law theory and to understand systemazing of Czech legal order in connection with public, private and procedural law including the particular leagl fields.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Student will be able:
- to describe legal order of the Czech Republic, to name particular legal fields
- to identify particular legal fields and deduce the rights and oblagations of legal relations participants. To distinguish individual legal fields (private and public)
- to analyze concrete legal problems in order to distinguish those and connect them with the right legal regulation
- practically apply gained knowledge when studying further legal subjects
Course Contents
1. Law Theory I – Law Theory (state and law, symbols and function of the state, law as social phenomenon, law origin, social function of law, law and economics, objective and subjective law, world law cultures, law sources from the perspective of global view).
2. Law Theory II – legal norm theory (normative determination of law, legal norm structure, sorts of legal norms, norms creation, legal norm as legal rule, legal norm force)
3. Law Theory III – legal relations theory (legal relations and their symbols, presumptions of the legal relations, legal relation elements, legal subjectivity)
4. Law Theory IV – law system (internal – branch law segmentation, public and private law, material and processional law, external – world law systems), legal state conception (legality, legitimacy, legal conscience, peace, legal state, structure and guaranty of legal state)
5. Constitutional Law
6. EC Law
7. International Law (public, private, commercial – regulations, subjects, sources and some terms)
8. Criminal Law (regulations, sources and some terms of material criminal law – crime and its factum, criminal responsibility and penalties)
9. Private Law I (civil law – status in private law, sources, Civil Code system, civil law characteristics)
10. Private Law II commercial law, labour law, intellectual property law – regulations, sources and basic terms)
11. Public Law (administrative law, financial law, social welfare law, tax law – regulations, sources and subjects, basic terms)
12. Processional law I (social basis of all processes in state, sorts of these processes and their social function, processing authorities and their organization, relation between processes, competency, process participants)
13. Processional law II (particular processes and their purpose – rules, process itself, decision making, appellate review and its measures, execution; some terms – legal force, feasibility etc.)
14. Actual topic
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Burrows, Andrew. English Private Law. Oxford, 2013. 1664 s. ISBN 978-0-19-966177-0.
Feldman, David. English Public Law. Oxford University Press, 2009. 1289 s. ISBN 978-0-19-922793-8
Halfar, B. et al.: Právo. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2013.182 s. ISBN 978-80-248-3170-1.
Recommended Reading:
Feldman, David. English Public Law. Oxford University Press, 2009. 1289 s. ISBN 978-0-19-922793-8
Janků, M. et al. Základy práva pro posluchače neprávnických fakult. 5. vydání. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2013. 568 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-494-0.
Kelsen, Hans. General theory of law and state. United Ststes: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd., 2011. ISBN-13 9781886363748
Spirit Martin. Úvod do studia práva. 2. vyd. 192 s. Praha: Grada Publishing, a.s., 2014. ISBN 978-80-247-5280-8.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
ExaminationExamination100 51