Course: Core Fields of European Culture III

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Course title Core Fields of European Culture III
Course code KHI/EFIII
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Bureš Pavel, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Peřinová Markéta
Course content
Introduction to International and European Law 1. Introduction to legal terminology. General presentation of international and European law. 2. Diplomatic Law diplomatic staff, diplomatic premises, diplomatic privelegies and immunities, diplomatic protocole. 3. Consular law classes of consulates, consular officers, honorary consuls, consular functions. 4. International Law of International organizations. Creation, role, functionning. 5. Use of force and international humanitarian law. 6. International human rights law - general presentation, core human rights treaties, internatinal human rights bodies. 7. European system of human rights protection European Convention of human rights, basic principles and case law 8. European Court of Human Rights criteria of admissibility (workshop) 9. Legal construction of European Union history, European Institutions role and functionning 10. Nature of EU law supremacy and supranationality, relationship between EU law and member states´ municipal laws 11. Internal market free movement of persons, capital, services and goods, main features 12. European citizenship and European asylum law Literature: - Recommended: James Crawfard. Brownlie´s Principles of Public International Law. Oxford University Press, 2012. - Recommended: David Harries. Cases and Materials on Public International Law. Sweet Maxwell, 2010. - Recommended: Shaw, M. International Law. Cambridge, 2008. - Recommended: Bureš, Pavel. Introduction to Public International Law. 2013. - Recommended: Faix, Martin. Law of International Organizations. VUP, 2012. - Recommended: STEHLÍK, V., HAMUĽÁK, O. Legal issues of EU Internal Market: Understanding the Four Freedoms, Olomouc: UP Olomouc, 2013. 248 s. - Recommended: STEHLÍK, V., HAMUĽÁK, O. European Union constitutional law : revealing the complex constitutional system of the European Union. Olomouc: UP Olomouc, 2013. 204 s.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Observation, Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
  • Homework for Teaching - 36 hours per semester
  • Excursion - 8 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 36 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 24 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Exam - 46 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course Introduction to International and European Law aims to at general presentation of international and European law separately and in their simultaneous interconnections. Public International law is an autonomous system that regulates relations between subjects of international community. Main institutions and core fields will be presented. Attention will be payed also to cornerstones of legal construction of the European Union, European integration, institution of EU, rules of the internal market and common European migration policy. The course has a clear legal accent with necessary political overlaps.
Student will gain basic knowledge of international and European law.
Prerequisites
Knowledge within the scope compulsory subjects that precede this subject in the study plan.

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Essay, Seminar Work

Presentation. The course is concluded by an exam in written form.
Recommended literature
  • http://www.euroculture.upol.cz/courses.php.
  • Bachtler, Downes, Gorzelak. (2000). Transition, Cohesion and Regional Policy in Central and Eastern Europe. Ashgate.
  • Magocsi, P., R. (2002). Historical Atlas of Central Europe. University of Toronto Press.
  • Myant, M., Drahokoupil, J. (2011). Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ.
  • Pavlínek, P. (2005). Alternative theoretical approaches to post-communist transformations in central and eastern europe. Acta Slavica Iaponica.
  • Pavlínek, P. (2002). Restructuring the Central and Eastern European Automobile Industry: Legacies, Trends and Effects of Foreign Direct Investment. Post-Soviet Geography and Economics. Vol 43, No. 1, pp. 41-77.
  • Turnock (ed.). (2005). Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Ashgate.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2023_N24) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2023) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2019) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Euroculture (2023_S24) Category: Philosophy, theology 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter