About us
The beginning of Faculty’s of Law history adheres to the year of university foundation, i.e. 1919. This faculty has become a pillar of university’s since the very beginning. The Faculty of Law (FL) was a significant centre of juridical science in the period between the two great wars, the glory of which reached beyond the Czechoslovakia borders. It became famous with being juridical school regulative centre, inseparably connected to the name of professor František Weyr, one of faculty’s leading personalities to whom also belonged professor Karel Engliš, the first Masaryk University rector, later Faculty of Law dean, Minister of Finance in several governments between the wars and Czechoslovak National Bank governor. The faculty experienced two breaks of development by force – first by Nazis in November 1939, then by a government decree in 1950. It reopened in 1969.
There is a convenient environment for law studies in the city of Brno. After 1989, it became again the national legal centre. The top judicial bodies have their seats there, such as the Supreme Court, Supreme Administrative Court and Constitutional Court, the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office and the Public Defender’s of Rights Office. Close cooperation of the Faculty of Law and those institutions is an inseparable part of faculty’s activities having a positive influence on law studies quality.
Scientific research efforts keep underlining the connection of the Czech and European contexts of researched subjects. This trend shows up in the attitude to grant projects oriented towards the issues of the current stage of development of EU external commercial relations legal regulations, towards competition and fusion policy in the Czech Republic and in European context or towards international and European legal and ethic standards of health research.
The European context of Czech law development has become faculty’s scientific research priority also for the oncoming years in which the faculty will be the Ministry’s of Education, Youth and Sport research plan researcher. However, other subjects are not put aside – successfully were completed the research projects of delinquent females or bankruptcy law in the Czech Republic and others, such as Legal Control of Self-Governing Territorial Units’ Funds and Property, are under progress.
Faculty instructors and doctoral students actively participate in scientific conferences and seminars abroad, fellowship trips to significant foreign institutions in Europe and in the USA. Faculty experts contribute to Council of Europe bodies’ activity with advice and consultancy and cooperate, on long-term basis, with a number of universities abroad, such as The John Marshall Law School, Chicago. Faculty representatives work for ministerial analysis committees, contribute to consultancy for the Czech Government Council of Human Rights and to national and international non-government organisations operation.
The students receive university education in on-site master’s degree programme of Law and Legal Science, law specialisation, in combined bachelor’s degree programme of Law Specialisation in the fields of Theory and Practice of Criminal Procedure, Public Administration, Real Property Law, Law and Business and International Commercial and Banking Law and in the doctoral degree programmes of Theoretical Legal Sciences. The Faculty of Law was the first in the Czech Republic who opened graduate studies of LLM commercial and business law (Master of Laws) being a joint programme with Nottingham Trent University, UK, MU Faculty of Law and Brno University of Technology. The faculty also offers numerous lifelong learning programmes.
The faculty forms the students for a wide range of lawyer positions as the graduates find jobs in judiciary, prosecution or advocacy, in public administration, private sector, etc.
Most of secondary school leavers’ interest in the Czech Republic belongs to the Faculty of Law and only the best may be accepted to studies. For example, there were almost 9,000 applications for studies in 2005/2006 academic year and only around 1,300 were accepted. Nowadays, more than three thousand students altogether are getting ready for legal profession at this faculty.
Faculty of Law in numbers
- As of 31 October 2008, there were 3799 students of regular diploma studies at this faculty altogether, out of which 1056 in bachelor’s degree programmes, 2589 in master’s degree programmes.
- As of 31 October 2008 another 154 students were in the doctoral degree programmes.
- We have 11 departments, employing 161 personnel, out of which 15 are professors and 24 associate professors.
- The students are taught by 155 instructors altogether, out of which 100 are MU staff, 14 students and 41 externs outside MU.
- In 2008 we registered 7715 applicants for studies in all open admission procedures, out of which 1093 were accepted.
- We educate 13 seriously handicapped students.
- The number of students going abroad in the academic year of 2008/2009 was 89, the number of students coming from abroad in the same academic year was 1.
- The graduates from regular studies in 2008 reached the number of 740, out of which 277 from bachelor’s, 439 from master’s and 24 from PhD studies.
- Our graduates labour market very well (Graduate employment record).
- Since 1933, there have been 22775 graduates from the studies at our faculty.
