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Interpretation of multilingual legal texts
Fatura, Martin ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Tryzna, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the possibilities of interpretation of legal texts au- thentic in more than one language and attempts to analyze the approaches applicable as a possible solution of contradictions between various langu- age versions. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is an intro- duction to the issue. There is just roughly outlined the reason for the exis- tence of multilingual legal texts and there is also defined the scope of the following chapters. The second chapter is dedicated to various methods of interpretation, distinct by legal doctrine. With regard to the topic of the thesis, the inter- pretive methods are divided into two groups with respect to the approach of finding the meaning of legal norms and the content of the regulation. The first section deals with methods based on the text of the legal norm. These are linguistic, logical and systematic method. The second section describes the methods based on the purpose and significance of the treatment. These are the teleological, the historical and the comparative method, as well as the modifications of the teleological method, used primarily in internati- onal law and law of European union. The way of choosing the primary interpretation method is described in the third section. The third chapter deals with the...
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Due managerial care and diligence as a criterion for the determination of liability (a legal and comparative analysis)
Krtoušová, Lucie ; Beran, Karel (advisor) ; Kühn, Zdeněk (referee)
Diploma thesis - abstract Due managerial care and diligence as a criterion for the determination of liability (a legal and comparative analysis) Lucie Krtoušová The purpose of this thesis is to critically analyse the interpretation of the concept of the due managerial care and diligence and consider the requirements that a director must comply with. The method used in this paper is the comparative analysis. As a basis of the comparative analysis it is chosen the British concept of fiduciary duties and duty of care, skill and diligence which is compared with the Czech concept of the care of a prudent manager. The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the concept of the due managerial care and diligence. Chapter One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis such as the director, the care of a prudent manager, the duty of loyalty, fiduciary duties and the duty of care, skill and diligence. Chapter Two examines the British concept of fiduciary duties. The chapter consists of five parts. Part One focuses on introduction into the system of general duties of directors. Part Two explains the fiduciary position of a director. Part Three and Four address the two aspects of the duty of loyalty, i.e. the duty to act in the interest of the company and...
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Punitive aspects of damages (legal and comparative analysis)
Janeček, Václav ; Beran, Karel (advisor) ; Kühn, Zdeněk (referee)
Czech courts regularly deal with a question of so-called just satisfaction; particularly, when, on what basis, and how much should be awarded. Just satisfaction, as a form of damages, is primarily compensatory. However, there are some indications that it is perfectly legitimate for law of damages to pursue also another aims than compensation such as prevention or punishment. This view was recently upheld by the Czech Constitutional Court and the Highest Court of the Czech Republic. According to doctrinal approach, it is the domain of punitive or exemplary damages as a specific Anglo-American instrument that covers these two principles (prevention and punishment). Still, the Czech Civil courts consistently refuse to award exemplary damages albeit they do not provide us any sound argumentation. The author of this article suggests it is inaccurate and only partial understanding of exemplary damages that causes the current judicial refusal of them. While focusing on current English and Czech law, the author in his article describes exemplary damages in great detail with respect to their theoretical, conceptual and systematic position. Subsequently, he shows that the negative attitude of the Czech courts is not always appropriate. First, looking at relevant case law, the article characterises what the...
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Cause, consideration and the purpose of contract law
Šebeková, Veronika ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Beran, Karel (referee)
of the Master thesis This Master thesis deals with an institute of the Czech contract law - kauza (causa). The example of kauza (and consideration) illustrate the tendency of legal systems to keep institutes once they have been created, even at the cost of inconsistent changes in their definition, purpose or function. The original meaning of the institutes is continuously blurred which makes it difficult to assess whether their use in the current legal system is substantiated. The main purpose of the thesis is to contribute to a clarification of the real function of kauza in the Czech contract law. Unlike in foreign legal publications, kauza is rather marginalized in Czech legal writings. Authors that deal with the problems of kauza (at least to some extend) often come to mutually exclusive/ inconsistent conclusions. The classical doctrine of causa makes little sense in the consensual concept of contract that seems to be favored in the Czech legal theory. Namely, the requirement of kauza appears to be additional to a requirement of consensus of the parties. Such theoretical discrepancy may be one of the reasons why the meaning of kauza in the Czech law is still unclear. Contract theories facilitate a deeper understanding of contracts, contract law and its particular institutes. However, the Czech...
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The duty to prevent damages and its impact in individual legal regimes
Klein, Šimon ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Beran, Karel (referee)
Duty to prevent damage and its effects in particular legal branches Abstract: The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the duty to prevent damage in the context czech of legal system, to prove that prevention is integral to the system of civil liability and examine special consequences of this duty outside the scope of civil law, i.e. in criminal and administrative law. The reason for my research is increasing importance of revention in modern legal discourse. The thesis is composed of six chapters, each of them dealing with different aspects of the principle of prevention and its development. Chapter One is introductory, analyses and defines the phenomenon of prevention in the civil law. The chapter is subdivided into four parts. Part one briefly describes the emphasis on the prevention in civil liability by the law and economics. Part two analyses the principle of neminem laedere and its importance within the principle of prevention. Part three draws conclusions from the preceeding parts and defines the duty to prevent damage in the civil law. Part four then describes who might be the subject of such a duty. Chapter Two examines the development of the principle of prevention within the czech legal system and examples of relevant case law. It is subdivided into four parts, examining succesive civil codes...
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Andrej Vysinskij - a legal scholar of the Stalin era
Kraft, Valeria ; Maršálek, Pavel (advisor) ; Kühn, Zdeněk (referee)
Andrey Vishinsky - a legal scholar of the Stalin era Abstract The aim of the thesis is to examine the basic categories of the Marxism-Leninism theory of law from the point of view of Andrey Januaryevich Vishinsky. The thesis is composed of four chapters. Chapter One (named "Marxism, Russian revolution and Law") is based on the idea that it is not possible to understand the Soviet law without analysis of the relationship between Marxism and legal theory. Subchapter 1.1 gives a brief overview of Marx's school of thought. At the same time it points out the absence of the self-contained concept of law in writings of Marx and Engels. Chapter Two is devoted to the life of Andrey Vishinsky, his academic and scientific career. The following subchapters are subsequently mapping the individual stages of his life. It contradicts some of the untruths and myths surrounding Vishinsky. Chapter Three (named "Vishinsky's contribution to the basic categories of the Marxism-Leninism legal theory") is concentrating on the four fundamental concepts of legal thinking: Law, State, Legality and Justice. It points out that Vishinsky's approach to these categories was only purpose-built and dogmatic. Chapter Four deals with criticism which Andrey Vishinsky targeted against the theorists of "withering away of law and the state":...
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Law and multiculturalism: Muslim immigration in selected European countries
Bělíková, Martina ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Maršálek, Pavel (referee)
Cizojazyčné resumé LAW AND MULTICULTURALISM: MUSLIM IMMIGRATION IN SELECTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES The purpose of my thesis is to analyze current legal, social and political development in selected countries of Western Europe which became a home to the Muslim minority. I want to describe the issue of Muslim immigrants and their adaptation to the European legal systems as well. An analysis of this issue is related to the comparison of two different models of immigration policy, namely the British and the French and their legal basis. No matter how different they are, they lead in my opinion ultimately the equally undesirable results such as the creation of suburban ghettos, zero integration and the increasing violence in the streets or unemployment. My goal is besides the analysis of the situation to highlight the deficiencies of both systems and cover the historical and political context. The thesis is composed of six chapters. The first chapter defines the theory of cultural conflict and highlights the fact that the chosen theme can be examined from several angles simultaneously. It's not just the legal issues that need to be asked and we will not find a clear answer. Without the historical, political and socio-cultural context we will not get a complex result. In my work I focus on the area of Western Europe,...
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Legal and theoretical analysis of the limitation of legal capacity by court
Lukáč, Roman ; Beran, Karel (advisor) ; Kühn, Zdeněk (referee)
1 Summary The thesis is focused on a specific area of the private law and concerns with questions of legal capacity of natural persons, specifically with the legal conception of acquiring and restricting legal capacity. The main attention is dedicated to task of civil courts in cases of reduction capacity. The first chapter deals with the basic legal terms crucial for this issue - person, legal personality and legal capacity and their mutual relations. On the grounds of interpretation of article 5 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, we can say, that in our legal order everyone is a person in legal meaning of the word. It means that everyone has a legal personality as an attribute of person and cannot be deprived of it. Legal personality means to be capable of having legal rights and duties and it is a prerequisite to legal capacity, which determines the ability of person to amend (enter into, transfer, etc.) her rights and duties. The thesis shows that on the constitutional level the legal personality and the capacity are two sides of the same coin, while for the private law the separation of these two attributes is typical. The reason for it is based on fact, that while the legal personality arises purely from the nature of a person, the capacity depends on a physical maturity. This is also...
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The economic analysis of law in case-law
Hubková, Pavlína ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Tryzna, Jan (referee)
OF THE DIPLOMA THESIS The Economic Analysis of Law in Case-Law Pavlína Hubková According Richard Posner, "economics is a powerful tool for analyzing a vast range of legal questions but most lawyers have difficulty connecting economic principles to concrete legal problems." This diploma thesis focuses on the clash between law and economics and on those difficulties lawyers may have when applying economic analysis of law. It tries to identify borders between two fields of study and problems or obstacles which are faced by judges. In concrete, the thesis deals with the economic analysis of law in the domain of competition law. The thesis is divided into a theoretical part and an empirical part. The theoretical part includes four chapters. The first chapter characterizes the economic analysis of law in general, it provides with a short history of this approach to law, opinions of its proponents as well as critics and a summary of utility of economics in law. The second chapter then refers specifically to the role of economic analysis in judicial decision-making. Competition law as an "explicitly economic field" is presented in the third chapter. The core of the thesis is to be found in the next chapter which focuses on the problems and obstacles which judges have to face and potentially overcome when...
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Formalism in Law
Brezina, Peter ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Maršálek, Pavel (referee) ; Škop, Martin (referee)
The theme of this thesis is "formalism in law" as a concept that permeates an essential part of modern legal thinking. This work shows that it is usually perceived as a critical concept, but without a clear and steady meaning. In recent times, however, the discussion involving this concept changed so that it now includes individuals positively acknowledging themselves as formalists. An overview of this debate (only marginally concerning the Czech environment yet, however) forms the bulk of the thesis. The second essential part of it is a separate rethinking of the place of formalism in law, in all its aspects - in interpretation and application of law, in the creation of law, even in legal education and legal scholarship. This thesis consists of three unequal parts, the first of which is further divided into three sections. The first part deals with the formalism as a topic of discussion in legal philosophy during the entire 20th century, and the intention is to present this debate to Czech readers. Its first section is devoted to a topic typically linked to criticism of formalism in law in Western legal scholarship, as it presents the American legal realism of the interwar period. It shows it as a strong and visible culmination of earlier critical efforts visible on both sides of the Atlantic...
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