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Lecturer(s)
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Körner Stanislav, JUDr. Mgr.
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Course content
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Lectures: 1. Introduction to the issue of state and legislative history - basic legal terms, institutions, law principles 2. Roman law, its basic principles, concepts and institutions 3. The first early-feudal state formations on the Bohemian territory, the Great Moravian Empire and the state of the Premyslide dukes, the typical features of their structure and public administration, the legal codes and the most significant legal historical documents 4. State and law in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the organization of justice in the period of developed feudalism, to 1419 5. State and law during the Hussite wars and in the period of the Estates? monarchy (1420?1620) 6. The Renewed Land Ordinance, the establishment and reinforcement of absolutism (to the 1740 arrival of Maria Theresa to the throne) 7. State and law in the period of the Enlightenment absolutism and in the first half of the 19th century (to 1848) 8. Transformations of state and law during the period of neo-absolutism up to the Great War 9. The Czechoslovak state and the reception of Austrian law 10. State and law during the Protectorate, the Slovak State, the Czechoslovak establishment in emigration 11. The establishment, formation and transformations of city law in the Czech lands 12. From the court justice "of the throat" to modern criminal justice
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the subject is to introduce students to the history of state (its establishment, central and local bodies of state power, public administration and justice) and legislation (sources, the most significant institutions of both public and private law) on the territory of the Czech lands and the Czechoslovak Republic from the establishment of the first state formations to 1945. The education includes explaining basic legal terms and principles, from outlining the Roman legal system to the formation of both private and public law on the Bohemian territory, as is accompanied by historically-legislative analysis of selected sources of law and their criticism in wider historical context.
The graduates are orientated in the development of both public and private law on the territory of the Czech lands and can define the structure of the bodies of either state or territorial public administration and the individual courts in various historical periods in the context of the commonly used periodization of Bohemian/Czech history. They can explain the differences among the individual administrative and court authorities as well as the difference between the institutions of substantial and procedural law. As historians informed by law, they can characterize and explain elementary legal concepts and institutes, identify them in a professional text and apply them in historical practice, including their identification in archive sources and their subsequent dating and interpretation.
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Prerequisites
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None
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Assessment methods and criteria
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The precondition of receiving the required credit is submitting a seminar work on an assigned subject in the extent ranging from 6 to 10 pages (during a semester) and writing a two-page essay discussing an assigned professional text (in the framework of the closing lecture). The essay can be substituted by processing answers to three questions according to the assignment. In the framework of oral exam, the applicants answer three drawn questions. The first question is related to the period to 1627, the second one to the period to 1945, while the variant of some of the questions is a selected legal text which must be identified, dated and analysed from historical and legal aspect. The third question contains a legal principle and the answer should be based on explaining it and on providing its concrete example from practice.
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Recommended literature
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