Course: Private Law I

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Course title Private Law I
Course code USSV/FSP1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Kovářová Barbora, JUDr.
  • Šmíd Martin, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Private law - concept, subject, sources, principles. Interpretation and application of law. Legal personality, natural and legal persons. Private relations and facts, things. Absolute property rights (rights in rem, rights in kind to property, inheritance law). Relative Property Rights (Origin, Change, Termination) Contract liabilities - selected contract types. Obligations and other legal reasons. Basics of selected private law branches (family law, copyright). Basics of civil process.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Demonstration, Work-related activities, Stimulating activities (simulation, games, drama)
  • Contact teaching - 39 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 51 hours per semester
  • Preparation of a presentation (report) - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 30 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basics of private law (especially its general, substantive and contractual rights) and provide them with a theoretical and methodological basis for studying other legal subjects.
A student who has successfully completed the course can: explain the basic essence of the concept of law, what is the rule of law and the rule of law; explain the nature and content of the basic principles of private law; distinguish between private and public relations, enumerate individual branches of private law and navigate with others; to characterize the legal personality of natural and legal persons; list and navigate the individual types of absolute property rights; to characterize the essence of property rights and its limitations and to list possible ways of acquiring it; to characterize individual contractual types according to the Civil Code, to explain their use in practice; explain the principles of liability for harm; explain selected basic concepts of family and copyright; to briefly characterize the essence of the civil process and to orientate oneself in particular types of civil court proceedings. A student who has successfully completed the course can: orientate themselves in the Civil Code and find solutions to the presented problem; to draw up a simple contract, deed or filing a lawsuit in private matters. The student who has successfully completed the course is able to: apply the knowledge of private law in practice; formulate their own opinion on the fundamental problems of a legal nature in private relations and propose solutions; to communicate in a clear and convincing way to professionals and lay people information on the nature of professional issues and their own opinion on their solution.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment, Didactic test, Presentation

Written exam, attendance according to the FES decree and the fulfillment of a set of continuous tasks during the semester (presentation, discussion, solution of model examples).
Recommended literature
  • Dvořák, Jan. Občanské právo hmotné.. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2019. ISBN 978-80-7478-325-8.
  • Gerloch, Aleš. Teorie práva. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2021. ISBN 978-80-7380-838-9.
  • Hurdík, Jan. Občanské právo hmotné . Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2018. ISBN 978-80-7380-718-4.
  • Rozehnal, Aleš. Praktikum občanského práva hmotného. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o., 2020. ISBN 978-80-7380-805-1.


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