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An empirical analysis of legal reasoning in the decisions of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic 2004 - 2011
Mlynařík, Václav ; Kühn, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Wintr, Jan (referee)
The main aim of this thesis is to provide follow up for primary research that was published in the article of Marcin Matczak, Matyas Bencze and Zdeněk Kühn "Constitutions, EU Law and Judicial Strategies in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland," and to find out, in what extend it is possible to consider decision-making process of Czech administrative courts to be formalistic, or whether there have been any significant changes in strategies of adjudication since the primary research took place. First part of this thesis introduces organisational structure of Czech administrative courts, elaborates on the position of Supreme Administrative Court within that structure and shortly sums up its history. Second part of this thesis deals with theoretical questions regarding legal reasoning, both in general and with emphasis on judicial application of law, taking into account diverse ideologies and strategies that were formed developed by the doctrine. Final part of this thesis introduces outcomes of the follow up research that provided for quantitative analyses of case law of administrative courts in the years of 2003 to 2011. Matczak, Bencze and Kühn reviewed case law published in the official journal of administrative courts' decisions between 1999 and 2004 by marking usage of interpretational standards divided...
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