Syllabus
Outline of the Course 1.-2. An outline of the Legal history of the Czech lands until the age of enlightened absolutism3.-4. Austrian Civil Law (foundations of civil law tradition, ABGB)5.-6. Criminal Law in the 19th century and Austrian constitutional development7.-8. Czechoslovak legal development 1918-1939: the first Czechoslovak Republic The Constitutional Act 1920 • Legal dualism • Legal development 1938/19459.-10. Czechoslovak legal development 1945-1948 and 1948-1989 in outline Constitutional developments • Characteristic of communist regime and its periods • Main branches of law11. Typology of religion law systems in states of Europe and Northern America.12. Religion law of Czechoslovakia and of the Czech Republic.
Reading List
V. MAMATEY & R. LUA: A history of the Czechoslovak Republic 1918-1948, Princeton, 1973
Z. A. B. ZEMAN: Pursued by a Bear: the Making of Eastern Europe, London, 1989
J. POLIŠENSKÝ: History of Czechoslovakia in Outline, Praha, 1991
J. KUKLÍK: The Recognition of Czechoslovak Government in Exile and its International Status 1939/1941, in: Prague Papers on History of International Relations, vol. 1, 1997
E. TABORSKY: Czechoslovak democracy at work, Londýn, 1945
G. ROBBERS (ed.): State and Church in the European Union, 2nd Edition, Baden-Baden, 2005
J. R. TRETERA, Z. HORÁK: Religion and Law in the Czech Republic, 2nd Edition, International Encyclopaedia of Laws/Religion, Kluwer Law International, Alphen aan den Rijn, 2017, internet access at the Library of the Faculty of Law, Charles University. Direct access at http://www.kluwerlawonline.com.ezproxy.is.cuni.cz/toc.php?area=Looseleafs&mode=bypub&level=4&values=Looseleafs%7E%7EIEL+Religion
Annotation
In order to understand the recent legal development in Czech Republic it is an indispensable requirement to know the past. The Czechs are often deeply rooted in their history and the knowledge of the basics of Czech historical background appears therefore useful.