USESEP020 Legal Systems of Central European Countries

Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Summer 2017
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Tvrdá, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Tvrdá, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. et Mgr. Kateřina Tvrdá, Ph.D.
Institute of Central European Studies – Faculty of Public Policies in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to introduce the fundamentals of systems of legal regulation of neighbour countries with excursus to international law and community law including legal geography. The subject is based on lightening of principle of differences between great legal systems, fundamental institutes of international law and background of comparison to legal order of the Czech republic, as well as lightening of functioning of legal systems of Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Germany and Austria.
Syllabus
  • 1. Great legal systems. Legal geography. Continental legal system, Anglo-American legal system, Islamic law and some other law systems
    2. Aspects of international unification of law. Agents of unification, unification and culture, unification and comparative law, types of unification, content of unification, methods of unification, unification organizations, functions of unifications, national law and unified law, excursus to history of unification, current unifications.
    3. Fundamentals of international law. Concept and subject of international law, public and private international law, subjects of public international law, resources of public international law, responsibility and enforcement in public international law, international private law
    4. Fundamentals of community law. European integration after World War II. Law of European communities, separate areas of regulation EC and EU. Relation between intra-state law and community law.
    5. Legal system of the Slovak republic. Principles of constitutional law of the Slovak republic, Slovak judicial system, comparison of principal institutes of Slovak public law with law regulation in the Czech republic
    6. Legal system of Poland. Principles of constitutional law of Poland, Polish judicial system, comparison of principal institutes of Polish public law with law regulation in the Czech republic II. The introduction to central European culture studies (taught by dr. Šopák)
    7. Legal system of Hungary. Principles of constitutional law of Hungary, Hungarian judicial system, comparison of principal institutes of Hungarian public law with law regulation in the Czech republic.
    8. Legal system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Principles of constitutional law of the Federal Republic of Germany, relation of federal states and country, German judicial system, comparison of principal institutes of German public law with law regulation in the Czech republic.
    9. Legal system of the Austrian Republic. Principles of constitutional law of the Austrian republic, Austrian judicial system, comparison of principal institutes of Austrian public law with law regulation in the Czech republic.
    10. Consular law and consular services of central European countries.
    11. Rudiments of law aspects of trans-border cooperation
    12. Current issues
Literature
    required literature
  • TÝČ, V. Úvod do mezinárodního a evropského práva. Brno, 2014. info
  • KNAPP, V. Teorie práva. Praha: C.H.Beck, 1995. info
Teaching methods
Lecturing
Seminar classes
Assessment methods
Credit
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Composition of essay (10 pages extent) describing a selected legal cause of selected country in Central Europe.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2014, Winter 2015, Summer 2018, Summer 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2017, recent)
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