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What are the ways of controlling extraordinary legal states in the legal system of the Czech Republic? Is parliamentary control of states of emergency sufficient and effective? Are states of emergency in the Czech legal order reviewable at the judicial level? What is the meaning and purpose of control over states of emergency? These are the questions that the author of the diploma thesis addresses using the example of a coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021 as a case study. She assumes that states of emergency can be controlled and argues why and to what extent she considers it necessary in the conditions of a democratic state governed by the rule of law, to which the Czech Republic subscribes. In the first part of the thesis, the author defines the concept of a state of emergency as it is understood in theory and presents the individual states of emergency de lege lata. In the second part, the author presents a systematics of possible means of control, including parliamentary and political control, judicial review, and international supervision; she concludes the overview of legal means of control with an important addition of informal control by experts, the media, and society. At the same time, she presents research questions or hypotheses and addresses what is the aim and purpose of control of... |