Throughout its existence, the Department of Civil Law has provided a wide range of core fundamental compulsory courses, compulsory elective and elective courses both to full-time and part-time students. Compulsory courses currently include Civil Substantive Law taught in the span of three semesters.
In 2023, the law studies reform introduced a new law course named Practicum in Civil Law designed to train students to apply their theoretical knowledge in legal practice and to solve case studies. Civil Law within the general Private Law serves as an introductory course not only to Civil Law but also to Private Law in general. The rudiments of Private Law are inevitable for the study of Public Law branches as well. That is the reason why Civil Law course was introduced during the first year of law studies.
Apart from compulsory courses, a wide spectrum of compulsory elective courses is offered by the Department, for instance, Organization of the Courts and Prosecution, Land Law, Medical Law, Consumer Protection, Essentials of Legal Assistance, Institutes of Individual Rights Protection in the European environment, Media Law or Legal Aspects of Sports activities. The Department was the first academic institution in Czechoslovakia to teach the compulsory course of Intellectual Property Law and has established a long-term tradition in teaching and researching this legal discipline. The Department currently runs the compulsory law course of Intellectual Property and Information technologies and Civil law contracts and their application in practice. The longest tradition in teaching can be assigned to the Family Law course which was formerly a compulsory law course, and was later subsumed under the category of compulsory elective courses and in 2023 reclassified again as a compulsory course. This course is a prerequisite to the compulsory elective course of Legal Protection of the Child. The offer of compulsory law courses of the Department encompasses several courses of procedural nature, namely the compulsory course of Civil Procedural Law and the compulsory elective courses of Executory Law and Law of Bankruptcy. Legal education in respect of the Civil Substantive Law, Civil Procedural Law, Family Law, and Intellectual Property Law is completed with the compulsory state examination.
Since 2005, when the Department of Civil Law obtained accreditation for doctoral study programmes, a considerable number of full-time and part-time PhD students have successfully completed their doctoral studies at the Department. Several of them pursue their academic careers at the Department of Civil Law or at another department at the Faculty. Law courses in the doctoral study programme provided by the Department of Civil Law encompass Private Law I and II, Compensation for immaterial damage in Private Law, System of Liability in Private Law, Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in the European Union and the course Civil Law and EU Law.
In relation to its pedagogical activities, it must be highlighted that the level and methods of delivery of instruction have rapidly improved from the moment the lecturers were allowed to practice law, which in turn helped the instructors to facilitate learning to students by bringing practical information and knowledge of law application in several legal disciplines ranging from Civil Substantive Law, Family Law, Intellectual Property Law and Civil Procedural Law. Utilizing experience from legal practice in the pedagogical process helps to raise the attractivity of and awareness about the current legal regulation and legal nature of respective legal institutes of Private Law.
