Foundations of Law

Syllabus

1. Fundamentals of legal theory (law and society; sources of law; legal rules; legal system; application of law; legal responsibility) 2. Fundamentals of European union law (developments from the European communities to the European union; the concept, structure and sources of the European union law; EU institutions) 3. Fundamentals of constitutional law (chapter one of the Constitution of the SR; chapter two of the Constitution of the SR– Fundamental rights and freedoms; chapter three of the Constitution of the SR; chapter four of the Constitution of the SR – Territorial self-administration) 4. Fundamentals of constitutional law 2 (chapter five of the Constitution of the SR – Legislative power; chapter six of the Constitution of the SR – Executive power; chapter seven of the Constitution of the SR – Judicial power; chapter eight of the Constitution of the SR – The prosecutor’s office of the Slovak republic and the public defender of rights) 5. Fundamentals of substantive civil law (the concept, subject-matter, system and sources of substantive civil law; consumer contracts) 6. Fundamentals of substantive civil law 2 (rights in rem; law of succession; law of intellectual property) 7. Law and business (the concept, subject-matter, system, sources and relationship of commercial law to other legal branches; basic terms of commercial law; trade business) 8. Law and business 2 (business companies and cooperatives; business obligations; economic competition; bankruptcy, restructuring, debt relief) 9. Fundamentals of labour law (concept, object, system, principles of labour law; employment relationship; termination of employment relationship; working time, rest periods, work standby overtime work and paid holiday; agreements on work performed outside employment relationship) 10. Fundamentals of administrative law (public administration and public administration’s bodies; administrative procedure; offences) 11. Fundamentals of criminal law (concept, sources, principles and functions of criminal law; subject-matter, division and scope of Criminal Code; criminal offence and criminal liability; types of criminal offence and bodies of the criminal offence; penalties and protective measures) 12. Fundamentals of criminal law 2 (criminal protection of economy; criminal offences against (the right) of property; economic criminal offences; criminal proceedings) 13. Fundamentals of financial law (financial market law)