Course: Introduction to Study of Human Rights

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Course title Introduction to Study of Human Rights
Course code KTP/AULP
Organizational form of instruction Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Šejvl Michal, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. History of idea of human rights and its philosophic background in the context of development of society - from Antiquity to the present 2. Analysis of the most important historic document regulating human rights in the context of their history from the Middle Ages to the present 3. Analysis of municipal and international rules on human rights 4. Enforcement mechanisms in historical perspective to the present 5. Contemporary theories of human rights and their philosophical background 6. Selected actual problems of human rights

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
  • Contact hours - 26 hours per semester
  • Graduate study programme term essay (40-50) - 44 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 34 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
Not specified
Porozumět základním pojmům týkajícím se lidských práv a jejich klasifikaci
Skills
Seznámit s historickým vývojem lidských práv a jejich filozofickými aspekty. Orientovat se v základních platných pramenech práva lidských práv
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
Student shall gain knowledge of basic concepts related to human rights, understands their development, is able to analyze not only basic historic documents on human rights, but also positive human rights law (on the municipal and international level), make sense of enforcement mechanisms of these rights, to classify human rights and identify some actual fundamental problems of human rights.
znalost základních kategorií lidských práv a jejich třídění
Skills
pochopení vývoje lidských práv analýza základních historických dokumentů o lidských právech
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Lecture supplemented with a discussion
assessment methods
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • Bill of Rights (1689).
  • Bill of Rights (1791).
  • Declaration of Independence (1776).
  • Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen (1789).
  • European Convention on Human Rights (1950), incl. additional protocols.
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), incl. the First Optional Protocol.
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966).
  • Magna Carta Libertatum (1215).
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).
  • Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice.
  • Douzinas, Costas. The End of Human Rights.
  • Ishay, Micheline. Human Rights Reader.
  • Locke, John. Druhé pojednání o vládě. Praha : Nakladatelství Svoboda, 1992. ISBN 80-205-0222-X.
  • Locke, John. The Second Treatise on Government, Letter on Tolerance.
  • Rousseau, Jean Jacques. O společenské smlouvě neboli o zásadách státního práva. Praha : Právnické knihkupectví a nakladatelství V. Linhart, 1949.
  • Rousseau, Jean Jacques. The social contract. London : Penguin Books, 1968. ISBN 0-14-044201-4.
  • Sudre, Frederic. Droit européen et international des droits de l'homme, P.U.F., coll. Droit fondamental, 9° édition, 2008, 843 p. Edition tcheque, 1997, Brno. Edition roumaine, Polirm, Bucarest, 2006..
  • Sudre, Frédéric. Mezinárodní a evropské právo lidských práv. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 1997. ISBN 80-210-1485-7.


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