Course detail

Law

FAST-BV07Acad. year: 2013/2014

Legal system of the Czech republic. Situation and sorting of the Czech law in legal systems. Basic legal terms and terminology. Constitutional rules of the Czech republic and the highest legal norms. Basic human rights and freedoms. System of courts of justice in the Czech republic. Principles of civil and business code, their mutual relations and their relations with trade law. Business subjects, business companies and co-operatives. Enterprise of physical persons, silent partnership and consortium. Commercial debt relationship. Contracts named and in-nominative. Most used kinds of contracts. Basic information about the system and situation of the construction law. Entrance into the labour law, basic employment law relationships, the contract of work.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Mgr. Dagmar Hrabincová

Department

Institute of Structural Economics and Management (EKR)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

After successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
• understand the systematization of legal system
• navigate in the public and private systems
• distinguish the character of legal relations and is subsumed under the legal branch
• apply the relevant legal case law
• use legal means to protect the rights and legally protected interests

Prerequisites

This subject orientation link up to basic knowledge of law from secondary school. Upon this subject will be linked next law subjects lectured in master degree study program, mainly: Financial and Labour law and Law of business relations.

Co-requisites

Expected to have basic knowledge of the law on the level and scope of secondary education and shall be no more expert knowledge.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures and self-study assignments. Attendance at lectures is optional.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Activity in lectures, including lectures ensured by expert practitioners. Successful completion of the final written test.

Course curriculum

1.–3. Legal system (public and private law, fundaments of the law, legal relationships and legal acts, limitation and preclusion)
4.–6. Constitutional rules (legislation power, executive power, power of justice, basic human rights and freedoms)
7.–8. Private law (principles, substance and differences civil and business code)
9.–11. Debt relationships (civil-legal and business-legal, comparison of basic types of contracts)
12.–13. Labour law (subject, substance and basic institutes of labour-law form)

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

This subject makes possible to understand to basic principles, elements and system of Czech Republic legal system. It teaches basic institutions of constitutional, business and labour law.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

DAVIDSON, Daniel: Business law principles and cases in the legal environment. Mason,Ohio: Thomson/south-Western/west, 2004. ISBN 0324153635. (EN)
JANKŮ, Martin a kol.: Základy práva pro posluchače neprávnických fakult. C.H.Beck, 2012. ISBN 978-80-7179-499-8. (CS)

Recommended reading

MAREK, Karel: Smluvní obchodní právo: kontrakty. Brno: Masarykova universita, 2008. ISBN 978-80-210-4619-1. (CS)
PAVLÍČEK, Václav a kol.: Ústavní právo a státověda I. a II. díl. Praha: Linde, 2008. ISBN 9788072016945. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's

    branch E , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's

    branch E , 4 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Mgr. Dagmar Hrabincová

Syllabus

1.–3. Legal system (public and private law, fundaments of the law, legal relationships and legal acts, limitation and preclusion)
4.–6. Constitutional rules (legislation power, executive power, power of justice, basic human rights and freedoms)
7.–8. Private law (principles, substance and differences civil and business code)
9.–11. Debt relationships (civil-legal and business-legal, comparison of basic types of contracts)
12.–13. Labour law (subject, substance and basic institutes of labour-law form)