Cookie settings
When you visit any website, that website may store or retrieve information about your browser, especially in the form of cookies. This information may relate to you, your preferences, your device, or it can be used to make the site work as you expect. This information usually doesn't identify you directly, but it allows you to get more personalized online content. In these settings, you can choose not to allow certain types of cookies. Click on the category headings to learn more and change your default settings. However, you should be aware that blocking certain cookies may affect your experience with the site and the services we may offer you.More info
Manage cookie settings
Necessary cookies
Always active
These cookies are necessary to ensure the functionality of the website and cannot be turned off in our systems. They are usually set up only in response to activities you perform that constitute a service-related request, such as setting privacy preferences, signing in, or filling out forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you to such cookies, in which case some parts of the site may not work.
Performance cookies
These cookies allow us to determine the number of visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us identify which sites are the most and least popular, and see how many visitors are moving around the site. All information that these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not enable these cookies, we will not know when you visited our site.
- Faculty
- Departments
- Department of Civil Law
- Department of Labour Law and Social Security Law
- Department of Commercial and Economic Law
- Department of History of State and Law
- Department of Theory of State and Law
- Department of Penal Law, Criminology, Criminalistics and Forensic Sciences
- Department of Financial and Administrative Law
- Department of Constitutional Law
- Department of International, European Law and Legal Communication
- Study
- Applicants
- Science and research
- International Relations
- Contact

Department of Civil Law
Where to find us:
Department of Civil Law PrF UMB
Komenského 20
974 01 Banská Bystrica
Profile
The department of Civil Law covers education and research in area of civil law as a general part of private law in legal system of the Slovak Republic, what highlights its importance and significance.
Within educational activity the department of Civil Law provides teaching of the following subjects: Civil Law I. and II. (Civil Law), Civil Law III. and IV. (Civil procedural law), Civil law V. (Intellectual property law), Family Law, Medical Law, Clinic of Civil Law I. and II., Current issues of civil law. Department offers also teaching of two subjects in English language: Intellectual property law and Consumer Law.
The main part of education deals with Civil Law and Civil procedural law, where teaching is focused primarily on acquiring and extending knowledge of students in theoretical and practical area of civil law, what may students also find out important and useful in study of other related branches of law (eg. Commercial law, Labor law and others.). The main goal of the department is to make students understand the theory of civil law, to gain knowledge of its legislation and institutes and to make them able to apply it in practice. After all students should be able to work with legal acts, to gain theoretical knowledge of civil law, to understand and use legal terminology and to learn analytical thinking in order to express their own legal opinion based on acquired knowledge.
Within research activities, members of the department covers a wide spectrum of problems and issues of civil law. They are authors and co-authors of several publications, textbooks and scientific articles which deals with the civil law and its issues.