General information
Course type | AMUPIE |
Module title | Introduction To Civil Procedure Law |
Language | English |
Module lecturer | prof. UAM dr hab. Marcin Walasik |
Lecturer's email | mwalasik@amu.edu.pl |
Lecturer position | professor |
Faculty | Faculty of Law and Administration |
Semester | 2022/2023 (summer) |
Duration | 30 |
ECTS | 8 |
USOS code | 10-ICPL-w-erasm |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
The course presents the structure of civil proceedings and the basic assumptions, elements and sources of civil procedural law with references to civil law, constitutional law and European Union law.
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Basic knowledge of civil law, constitutional law and European Union law.
Syllabus
- The concept of civil procedural law
- The concept of civil procedure
- State and non-state civil proceedings
- Types of civil proceedings
- Sources of civil procedural law
- Relationship of civil procedural law to substantive law
- Lex fori processualis
- Time frames of civil procedural law
- Basic axiological assumptions of civil procedural law
- Interpretation of civil procedure law
- Civil cases
- Access to court in civil cases
- Main principles of civil proceedings
- Form of procedural actions
- Case examination proceedings
- Contentious proceedings
- Non-contentious proceedings
- Claim-securing proceedings
- Enforcement proceedings
- Measures of appeal
- Alternative dispute resolution
Reading list
F. Zedler, ‘Civil Procedure’, in: Handbook of Polish Law, W. Dajczak, A.J. Szwarc, P. Wiliński (eds), Warszawa (Wydawnictwo Szkolne PWN) 2011
M. Walasik, 'Civil Procedural Law', in: Foundations of Law. The Polish Perspective, W. Dajczak, T. Nieborak, P. Wiliński (eds), Warszawa (Wolters Kluwer) 2021