Course: Human Rights and Constitutional system in the Czech Republic

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Course title Human Rights and Constitutional system in the Czech Republic
Course code KÚP/LPS
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Jindřichová Emilíe, doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Randová Tereza, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Hodan Tomáš, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Zeman Jan, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
The course broadens the knowledge students especially in constitutional philosophy of human rights, methods of constitutional interpretation an argumentation, as well as the mainly problems of the Human Rights in Czech Republic. 1) Constitutional conception of human rights and its protecting in Czech republic 2) Philosophicall and axiological starting-points of conception the human rights in Czech Republic, sources of liability, mean of naturally aproach; human rights, public power and democracy in constitutional systen of Czech Republic 3) Freedom and equality, conception in socialism, welfare, liberal and libertarian state; proportion between freedom and equality in constitutional systém of Czech Republic 4)Legitimity of autonomy volition and its constitutional limits in Czech Republic, autonomy of constitutional principles, majority or social consent and its importance for human rights conception 5) Material focus of constitutionality, natural limit sof normativity and procedural democracy, imanent limits of democratic constitution and transcedent limit sof democratic constitutionality 6) Sovereignty people - kontent, form, mechanism and realization in Czech Republic, Sovereignty people and human rights 7) Penal system in Czech Republic and its constitutional conformity with human rights, proportionality and human dignity 8) Constitutional position of the social rights in Czech Republic, the proportion between individualism and solidarism, evalutaion by the principles of welfare state and rule of law, interaction between personal and social rights 9) Death penalty, interruption, military conscription - evaluation by the principles of naturaly human rights and the right to life 10)Human rights and costitutional court, basic charakteristic 11) Collision between human rights categories, objektive and subjective limits, judicial test of proportionality a rationality, human rights in vertical and horizontal importace, extensive judicial doctrines 12) Relation betwen interstate and international system of protect the human rights in Czech Republic, European Court of Human Rights, specialized control mechanism, human rights in European Union 13) Constitutional conception of human rights in comparative perspection selected european democratic states

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion, One-to-One tutorial, Skills demonstration
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 52 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Basic knowledge of theory of law, constitutional law, and the theory of state. Students should pass courses KTP/TP1, KÚP/ÚP1 and KÚP/SV before enrolling to the course, and study the course KÚP/ÚP at least simultaneously.
Skills
the understand meaning and concept of human rights
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Students can: - describe, classify, break down and evaluate the conception of human rights in our constitutional system and its characters with identification interaction aspects in its structure, axiological starting-points a states consequences - evaluate the conception of human rights in Czech Republic in view of the constitutional principles and state conception, with identification its axiomatical starting-points and rate the grade of democratic legitimity - compare the conception of human rights in Czech Republic with democratic systems other European states - identify philosophicall starting-points of constitutional conception the human rights in Czech republic and evaluated it - break down the problems in conception of human rights in Czech Republic and evaluated it in view constitutional principles - make sense of the basic methodology of interpretation and aplication human rights in constitutional systém in Czech Republic, with accent to doctrines using in decision of Constitutional Court in Czech republic - argue to rate legitimity of various limits the human rights and solution of the collision between the constitutional values - make sense of the basic instrument s of judicial process to protecting human rights in Czech Republic
Skills
ability to analyze important case law in the area of protection of human rights and related case-law and to be able to apply that on particular given case.
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
Skills demonstration
One-to-One tutorial
Skills
Group discussion
Seminar classes
Competences
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Oral exam
Continuous assessment
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Oral exam
Competences
Continuous assessment
Recommended literature
  • Ústavy států Evropské unie. Díl druhý, Ústavní texty České republiky, Estonska, Kypru, Litvy, Lotyšska, Maďarska, Malty, Polska, Slovenska a Slovinska. Praha : Linde, 2005. ISBN 80-7201-556-7.
  • Ústavy států Evropské unie. Díl 1., Ústavní texty Belgie, Dánska, Finska, Francie, Irska, Itálie, Lucemburska, Německa, Nizozemí, Portugalska, Rakouska, Řecka, Španělska, Švédska a Velké Británie ; s úvodním komentářem Vladimíra Klokočky ; autoři překladu Vladimír Klokočka, Eliška Wagnerová. 2. vyd. Praha : Linde, 2004. ISBN 80-7201-466-8.
  • Adamová, Karolina; Křížovský, Ladislav. Dějiny myšlení o státě. 1. vyd. Praha : ASPI, 2000. ISBN 80-86395-07-3.
  • Blahož J., Balaš V., Klíma K. Srovnávací ústavní právo, 3. vydání. Praha: ASPI, a.s., 2007. ISBN 978-80-7357-312-6.
  • Holländer, Pavel. Filosofie práva. 1. vyd. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2006. ISBN 80-86898-96-2.
  • Klíma Karel a kol. Praktikum českého ústavního práva, 3. vydání. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7380-173-1.
  • Klíma, Karel. Encyklopedie ústavního práva. Praha : Aspi, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7357-295-2.
  • Klíma, Karel. Komentář k Ústavě a Listině. Plzeň : Aleš Čeněk, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7380-140-3.
  • Klíma, Karel. Teorie veřejné moci (vládnutí). 2., přeprac. a rozš. vyd. Praha : ASPI, 2006. ISBN 80-7357-179-X.
  • Klíma, Karel. Ústavní právo. 4., rozĹĄ. vyd. Plzeň : Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, 2010. ISBN 978-80-7380-261-5.
  • Kuba, Jaroslav. Filosofie lidských práv a právo. 2. vyd. Plzeň : Západočeská univerzita. Fakulta právnická, 1999. ISBN 80-7082-540-5.
  • Pavlíček, Václav. Ústavní právo a státověda. II. díl, část 2., Ústavní právo České republiky. Praha : Linde, 2004. ISBN 80-7201-472-2.
  • Wintr, Jan. Principy českého ústavního práva : (s dodatkem principů práva evropského a mezinárodního). Vyd. 1. Praha : Eurolex Bohemia, 2006. ISBN 80-86861-75-9.


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