Course: General Administrative Law I.

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Course title General Administrative Law I.
Course code VPK/SPO1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
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)
  • Pouperová Olga, doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Škurek Martin, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Pospíšilová Soňa, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Melotíková Petra, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Horáková Monika, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Frumarová Kateřina, doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Madleňáková Lucia, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
General institutes and phenomena of administrative law in terms of legal regulations, doctrines and practice are the subject matter of the course. Attention will be focused mainly on the following key themes: 1. Public administration - basic concepts (administration, public administration and its division, administrative body and administrative office, etc.). 2. Administrative law (subject, system, division, including so-called legal dualism), application of administrative law (especially issues of administrative discretion, so-called vague legal concepts, analogies). 3. Sources of Administrative Law - the Constitution and constitutional laws, international treaties, EU law, laws, regulations, statutory regulations.Other sources and authorities of administrative law. 4. Forms of public administration activities - the proportion of public administration in the creation of legislation (rule-making of public administration, participation in normative formation of other public authorities). 5. Forms of public administration activities - administrative acts (decisions as the main form of public administration activity, its characteristics, features, properties, defects). 6. Forms of public administration activities - measures of a general nature, public contracts, immediate interventions, factual acts and other forms of administrative activity. 7. Public Administration Organizations - constitutional and legal foundations of the organization of public administration; so-called organizational principles of public administration. Entities and executors of public administration. Individual subjects of public administration and their characteristics. 8. Public Administration Organizations - Executors of the public administration and their characteristics (direct and indirect state administrators, self-government executors and executors of other public administrations). 9. Territorial self-government - concept, characteristics and features, division. Self-governance of an interest group. 10. Administrative punishment - basic concepts and institutes, principles of administrative punishment. Administrative delict, its types. Administrative infractions. 11. Expropriation and forced restriction of proprietary rights by the public administration. 12. Public use - features of public use, general and special use. Seminar classes will thematically follow the lectures and will focus on the practice and consolidation of the theoretical knowledge and the ability of their practical application, in the form of solutions of different types of exercises, examples and case studies.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
The subject introduces the student into the field of administrative law, in which students learn about the legal regulation of the functioning of public administration. General administrative law includes principles and institutes that are common to all administrative law; it is an abstraction of the applicable administrative law. General administrative law also constitutes the basis for the proper application of the administrative procedural law but also for a special part of administrative law.
After completing the course, students will understand the tasks of public administration, the external relations of the public administration with the public authorities, the basic principles of the functioning of the public administration and will have an overview of which bodies form the organizational system of public administration.
Prerequisites
The completion of this course is not conditioned upon completion of any other courses.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Compulsory attendance at seminar classes to the extent required by the Study and Examination Code of Palacký University, active participation in seminars, continuous written verification of knowledge. A final examination of subject matter in oral form (colloquium).
Recommended literature
  • Hendrych, D. a kol. (2016). Správní právo. Obecná část. 9.vydání.. Praha - C. H. BECK.
  • Pouperová, Frumarová, Madleňáková. Praktikum z obecného správního práva, 1.díl.. Praha.
  • Průcha, P. (2012). Správní právo: obecná část. 8.vydání. Praha.
  • Sládeček, V. (2013). Obecné správní právo. 3. vydání.. Praha Wolters Kluwer.


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): Law in Public Administration (2019) Category: Law, legal and public administration proceeding 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Summer