Course: Criminal Law 1

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Course title Criminal Law 1
Course code KPT/TR1-D
Organizational form of instruction no contact
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ščerba Filip, doc. JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Substantive criminal law in domestic legal system 2. Domestic criminal law in European environment (Model Criminal Code, Corpus iuris /1997/2000). Criminal procedure in domestic legal system - domestic criminal procedure in European environment (Model Criminal Code, Corpus iuris /1997/2000). 3. Functions and basic principles of substantive criminal law 4. Legitimacy of criminal law 5. Criminal Act (different views, classifications, functions from perspective of guilt and punishment) 6. Offender / individual criminal liability, corporate liability 7. Forms of criminal act (developmental stages, criminal complicity, plural criminal act, organized crime and its forms) 8. Learning about negative conditions of criminal liability 9. Learning about reasons for ceases of punishability 10. Criminal law regulation of economic crime 11. Functions and basic principles of criminal procedure 12. Criminal procedure and its law and constitutional level 13. Learning about basic institutes of criminal procedure (different views of subject of criminal procedure and its classifications, function of subject) 14. Persons of criminal proceedings: the injured, the participant. 15. Procedural actions in general, and detention of the accused, especially custody. 16. Limits of custody and detention in constitutional and international law 17. Concept and basic principles of evidencing 18. Decisions, quasidecisions and other acts of the criminal law agencies 19. Legal force and enforceability of the decisions

Learning activities and teaching methods
Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
Criminal law is one of the three pillars of valid law and a profiling branch of jurisprudence. Its instruction within the doctoral study programme is oriented to systematic position of substantive criminal law on the national and European level, namely the ties with constitutional law and legislative projects of the Council of Europe and the European Union. The doctoral study programme is focused on functions, basic rules and institutes of the general part of substantive criminal law, from various viewpoints as concerns its forms, functions, guilt and punishment. The instruction in procedural criminal law will be oriented to functions, basic rules and key institutes of the general part of criminal law procedural, from the viewpoint of different notions and forms. A special attention is paid to concrete constitutional limits of criminal trial. The study programme includes instruction in criminologic, penologic, victimologic and criminalistic connections of the field.
Postgraduate programme Theoretical Legal Science
Prerequisites
Postgraduate programme Theoretical Legal Science

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance

Self-study,publication activities in specialized press, tutorial with lecturer
Recommended literature
  • Jelínek, J. a kol. (2016). Praktikum z trestního práva. Klauzurní práce s řešením. 6. vydání.. Praha: Leges.
  • Jelínek, J. a kol. (2017). Trestní právo hmotné. Obecná část. Zvláštní část. 6. aktualizované vydání.. Praha: Leges.
  • Jelínek, J. a kol. (2016). Trestní právo procesní. 4. vydání.. Praha: Leges.
  • Jelínek, J. a kol. (2017). Trestní zákoník a trestní řád s poznámkami a judikaturou. 7. vydání podle stavu k 1. 10. 2017.. Praha: Leges.
  • Jelínek, J., Herczeg, J. (2012). Zákon o trestní odpovědnosti právnickýcch osob a řízení proti nim. Komentář s judikaturou. 2. vydání. Leges, Praha.
  • Jelínek, J., Říha, J., Sovák, Z. (2008). Rozhodnutí ve věcech trestních. 2. vydání. Leges, Praha.
  • Vokoun, R., Vanduchová, M., Gřivna, T. a kol. (2017). Příklady z trestního práva hmotného a procesního. 3. vydání.. Praha: Leges.


Study plans that include the course
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