The authors started to tackle with the procrastination in the end of last century. Most of authors describe procrastination as an ineffective behavioural strategy or negative dysfunctional phenomenon, which causes to person unpleasant moods.
Several researches have shown that more people suffer from procrastination, than was supposed. Research abroad showed up, that between the university students is higher of procrastination than the average procrastination in the public.
The procrastination by university students is called academic procrastination. Until recently, the problematic of the academic procrastination has not been explored deeply in the Czech Republic.
Some authors started to pay attention to the academic procrastination. However, until now, there has been no research about the academic procrastination of students at the Law Faculty.
This paper deals with the procrastination of students at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague. The aim of the research was to find out the prevalence of academic procrastination of students at the Faculty of Law.
This paper considers the correlation between academic studying and procrastination.