UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

THE UNDERGRADUATE VOCATIONAL STUDIES OF CRIMINALISTICS

Course:

Constitutional Law and Protection of Human Rights

Course Code: S14

ECTS: 6

Course Status:

Compulsory

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 3 + 2

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Special Forms of Training:

3

2

-

Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: Acquiring knowledge pertaining to the content of the current Constitution, basic theoretical-legal concepts of constitutional law and more significant areas of comparative constitutional law in the field of human rights.

Projected Outcome: Knowledge relating to the current constitutional arrangements, as well as familiarity with the most important cases in comparative constitutional law and basic theoretical concepts in the sphere of constitutional law and protection of human rights.

Course Contents/Structure

Theoretical education: The notion, characteristics and functions of the constitution; Amending the Constitution; Constitutionalism; History of the constitutionalism; History of the constitutionalism in Serbia; Organisation of Government (National Assembly, President of the Republic, Government, Courts; Constitutional Court; Civic Defender); Territorial organisation (Provincial autonomy; Local self-government); State of emergency.

Human and minority rights and freedom; Restriction of human and minority rights; Prohibition of discrimination; Derogation form human and minority rights in the state of emergency and war; Protection of national minorities

Practical training: Review subject content and analysis of significant theoretical and practical problems.

Teaching Methods: lecture, modified lecture, presentation.

Assessment (Maximum Number of Points: 100)

Pre-Exam Obligations

No. of Points

Final Examination

No. of Points

Active participation in classes

10

Oral examination

60

Term tests

20

 

 

Research paper

10

 

 

Textbook/s

1. Živković, M., Simović, D., Ustavno pravo, Kriminalističko-policijska akademija, Beograd, 2009.

2. Marković, R., Ustavno pravo, Pravni fakultet: Centar za izdavaštvo i informisanje, Beograd, 2013.