Course: The Human Rights Mechanisms at the Level of the EU

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Course title The Human Rights Mechanisms at the Level of the EU
Course code MEP/PLMEU
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 6
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)
  • Šišková Naděžda, doc. et doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Hamuľák Ondrej, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Bureš Pavel, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Content (themes): 1. The introduction. The concept and attributes of human rights. Generations of human rights. Human rights, fundamental rights, civil rights - the differentiation and peculiarities in the context of EU Law. 2. The development of the protection of fundamental rights in the framework of the European integration - the retrospective view. 3. The development of the judicial doctrine of fundamental rights in the case-law of the Court of Justice.The unwritten catalogue of human rights formulated by the Luxembourgh Court. 4. The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Funtamental Freedoms. The changes on the basis of the Addidional and Amending Protocols to the Convention.Territorial scope, personal scope, temporal scope and material scope of the ECHR. Classification of rights and their nature. 5. The Strasbourgh control mechanism of the protection of human rights.Binding force of judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. The supervision of the execution of jugements from the side of the Committee of Ministers. The "reform of the reform" on the basis of the Protocol No 14, Protocol No 15 and Protocol No 16 to the Convention, the content and character of changes. 6. The preconditions for the creation of the first coherent catalogue of human rights at the level of the supranational entities. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU. The structure and the content of the Charter. The peculiarities of the Charter in its comparison with the ECHR. 7. The interpretation and the enforcement of the provisions of the Charter. "Explanations related to the Charter", their status and impacts. Differentiation between the "rights" and "principles" under the Explanation. Other restrictions. Horizontal provisions of the Charter and their impacts on the protected rights. Protocol No 30 to Lisbon Treaty, its relevance and implications in the light of actual changes. 8. Human rights as integral part of the mechanisms of the protection of common European values. Art.2 TEU and its significance for European law. The European Union´s concept of the rule of law and its content. Respect to the principles of the rule of law as a precondition for the functioning of the Area of freedom, security and justice. 9. Current instruments for the protection of human rights as a part of the common European values, their specifics and limits. The political procedure under Art.7 TEU and its suspensive clause, the infringement procedure /Art.258 TFEU/,"" A new EU Framework to Strengthen the Rule of Law" / COM (2014)158/ and the Rule of Law conditionality under the Regulation 2020/2092. 10. The issues of the accession of the EU to the European Convention of Human Rights. The attemps of the accession in the history of European integration. Analysis of the Opinion C-2/94. The regulation of the question of the accession in Lisbon Treaty. Analysis of the Opinion C-2/2013, the reasons of the negative assessment by the Court. The prospects of future development. 11. The relationship between the case-law of Luxembourg Court and judicial practice of the Constitutional Courts of Member states - "Solange saga". The European judgements of the Czech Constitutional Court and their human rights dimension.Case-law of CJEU in the field of human rights and the acts of other International organisations.The convergence of the approaches between CJEU and the European Court of Human Rights in thel ight of the doctrine of the" equivalent protection" /case Bosphorus, Mishaud/. "Kadi saga" and its implications on the International and European law. 12. The mechanisms of the protection of social rights in the European region.The regulation of social and economic rights on the basis of the European Social Charter and the Revised Social Charter. Peculiarities of their control mechanism. The Community Charter of Fundamental Social Rights of Workers and its comparison with European Social Charter. European Pillar of Social Rights , its nature as an ins

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
The course is following the compulsory course The Constitutional Foundations of the EU and serves for the deepening of the student ´s knowledge of the European dimension of the ptotection of human rights, including the relationship between the case law of the Court of Justise of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights. In addition to the analysis of the mechanism of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the analysis of the rights formulated by the Court of Justice in the framework of its judicial doctrine of fundamental rights, the attention will be paid also to the mechanism of European Convention of Human Rights and its significance for the EU and its legal order.The course will also focuse on the other mechanisms of the protection of human rights at the supranational level, especially on the instuments for the strengthening the rule of law principles as an integral part of the common European values /including the suspensive clause of Art.7 TEU, etc/.Attention will be also paid to some instruments of soft law character / for instance the European Pillar of Social Rights/.
Students completing this course will gain the knowledge and skills needed to master this issue.
Prerequisites
Completion of this course is conditioned by successful completion of previous parts of the course (MEP / PÚZEU).
MEP/PÚZEU

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

For the receiving of the credit is required the participation in the seminars, the fulfilment of the tasks given by the teacher and the reaching of the credit test.
Recommended literature
  • Bartoň, M. et al. (2016). Základní práva. Vydání první.. Praha: Leges.
  • De Vries; Bernitz; Weatherill (eds.). (2015). The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Binding Instrument. Five Years Old and Growing. Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  • Gragl, P. (2013). The Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights. Oxford: OUP.
  • Hamuľák, O. (2015). Listina základních práv Evropské unie jako okoli ústavního pořádku České republiky. Acta iurijica Olomoucensia, 2015/3.
  • Hamuľák, O. (2010). Právo Evropské unie v judikatuře Ústavního soudu České republiky. Praha, Leges.
  • Hamuĺák,O., Mazák, J. (2017). The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union vis-á-vis Member States_ Scope of its Application in the View of CJEU. Czech Yearbook of Public and Private Law, 2017/8.
  • Harris, et al. (2009). Law of the European Convention on Human Rights. 2n. Oxford: OUP.
  • Jankuv. J. (2018). Mechanizmy ochrany ľudských environmentálních práv. Praha: Leges.
  • Kmec, J. et al. (2012). Evropská úmluva o lidských právech. Komentář. Praha: C.H.Beck.
  • Mazák, J.; Jánošíková, M. et al. (2016). Charta základných práv Európskej únie v konaniach pred orgánmi súdnej ochrany v Slovenskej republike. Košice: UPJŠ.
  • Peers, S. et al. (2014). The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. A Commentary. Oxford: Hart.
  • Šišková, N. (2018). Aktuální právní nástroje EU k posílení právního státu, Právní rádce 12/2018, s. 56-60.. Právní rádce 12/2018.
  • Šišková, N. et al. (2018). The European Union - What is Next? A Legal Analysis and the Political Visions on the Future of the Union.. Wolters Kluwer Deutchschland.
  • Šišková, N. (2021). Lidskoprávní mechanismy na úrovni EU a otázky související. Praha: Wolters Kluwer.
  • Šišková, N., Matochová, S. (2010). Evropské právo a české právo, jejich vzájemný poměr v judikatuře Ústavního soudu ČR.. Praha, Linde.
  • Šišková, N. (2014). New Challenges for the EU in the field of Human Rights, European Studies. The Review of European Law, Economics and Politics,2014/1, s.12-21.
  • Šišková, N. (2019). The EU Concept of the Rule of Law and the Procedures de lege lata and de lege ferenda. International and Comparative Law Review.
  • Šišková, N. (2010). Zamyšlení se nad případem Kadi, Právní fórum, 2010, roč. 7., č. 12, s. 614-617.. Právní fórum, 2010, roč. 7., č. 12, s. 614-617.
  • Šturma, P. et al. (2013). Nová lidská práva. Praha: Univerzita Karlova.
  • Šturma, P. (2003). Mezinárodní a evropské kontrolní mechanismy v oblasti lidských práv. C. H. Beck, 2. vydání, Praha.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Law Study plan (Version): European Law and EU Policies (EPAPEU2022) Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer