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| Croatian Legal History in the European Context |
Law - 2. semester |
8.0 | 79143 |
| Lecturer in charge | Consultations | Location |
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| prof. dr. sc. Dalibor Čepulo | Thursdays, 12-13:30 |
Ćirilometodska 4, room Ćirilometodska 4, soba 33 |
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| izv. prof. dr. sc. Mirela Krešić (Lectures) | Ćirilometodska 4, room 35 |
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| Čepulo, Dalibor; Croatian Constitutional and Legal History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Times; (neobjavljeno) |
| Description |
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| This course aims at providing a general survey of the development of the Croatian constitutional and legal system from time of arrival of the Croats (7th century) and formation of the Croatian principalities and the Croatian kingdom (8-10th century) to the dissolution of Yugoslavia and formation of the independent Croatian state (20-21st century). It highlights the Croatian political and legal tradition in order to enable a deeper understanding of the contemporary Croatian legal system and legal culture as well as currently undergoing processes. The core of the course is the Croatian legal tradition, but the relationship with other relevant constitutional and legal systems and their influences is also examined (Byzantine, Venetian, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Russian etc). The course particularly focuses on the modern and contemporary period (19th-20th century). The main sources of constitutional, private and criminal law are discussed together with the administration of justice and administrative organization as well as their political context. |
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| Cognitive Skills:
Knowledge and understanding After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
Application After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
Analysis After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
Synthesis After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
Evaluation After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:
After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to understand historical determinants of contemporary Croatian legal system and Croatian legal culture, as well as respective determinants of functioning of institutions in reality. Apart from that, students will be able to better understand deeper determinants of the position of Croatia in the European environment including potentials, limits and problems arising for Croatia as a member state of the European Union, such as strategic issues of development as well as concrete problems in harmonisation of law. On the same basis students will be able to better understand and more easily follow events and processes happening in other parts of social system as well political and social actions reported in legal literature and in public media. Students will be enabled to watch and analyse life of legal institutions in concrete social reality and to analyse legal norms in regard to the social environment as well as to develop critical attitude toward legal sources. Students will be enabled to find more easily legal sources from the past and to analyse them better and more completely, as well as to apply historical method of interpretation on contemporary legal sources. Through participation in teaching process students will develop a skill of structured oral and written expression of their own ideas. Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:Knowledge will be tested through presentation of seminars (facultative), seminar papers (facultative), and written and/or oral exams. Seminar presentation consists of an oral explanation of particular topics with preliminary guidance by lecturers. In seminar presentation it is necessary to summarize and analyse sources, shows its understanding, identify open questions related to esential topics and discuss them. Through seminar presentation students should develop skill of public expression of their own thoughts and defend their own attitudes. Grade given for each particular presentation is an element of the final grade. Seminar paper is a written elaboration of particular topic by which student should show that he/she has analysed literature as well as legal sources in respect to their respective social context and time, that he has identified essential determinants of the topic of presentation, that he/she understood meaning of the topic in a respective period as well and also considering the process of development in time including contemporary period. Through seminar papers students should acquire or strengthen their ability of collecting and presenting relevant information and writing a scientific type of text i. e. critical review of literature, analysis and synthesis and structuration of paper as well as shaping of scientific apparatus. Respective manual prepared by members of the Chair can be utilized in writing of seminar paper. Written test with expected answers in a form of very short essay consists in definition of particular institutes, describing of more complex forms of development of particular institutes as well as of political and social processes and reproduction of explanations related to formation, functioning and development of particular institutes. Oral exam consists in testing of ability to identify Croatian legal identity in historical development, of understanding of causal connections regarding formation and development of particular state and legal institutes at the Croatian area and their social function, of comparisons and knowledge of legal influences from the European environment on Croatian legal development as well as estimation of the importance of historical processes for the contemporary Croatian legal culture. |
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