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Code:	44342
ECTS:	4.0
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Description:

The aim of the Administrative Law seminar is to study topics from the field of administrative law in depth. At the seminar, problematic issues are critically analyzed and resolved with the students so that students can learn to correctly apply laws and other regulations in the field of administrative law. Namely, every citizen takes part in various administrative procedures or other actions of public law bodies many times during their life, and it is especially important that students who have completed legal studies possess specific knowledge related to administrative procedures and other actions of public law bodies. The seminar consists of organized visits to the Administrative Court in Zagreb and the High Administrative Court in Zagreb, as well as organized visits of guest lecturers (during March). After that, there will be seminar meetings where students will deliver presentations on selected topics from the field of administrative law. A condition for successful completion of the seminar is a positively evaluated presentation on the chosen topic.

Cognitive Skills:

 

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

 

- describe and discuss the course of administrative procedure and administrative dispute;

- recognise specific features of administrative law relation, such as subordination of public bodies and parties

- outline main differences in th eprinciples of public and private law

 

Application

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- manage administrative law sources;

- independently apply laws from the area of administrative law (General Administrative Procedure Act, Administrative Disputes Act, Expropriation Act, Croatian Citizenship Act);

- use acquired knowledge for writing administrative acts, appeals, complaint to administrative court;

- illustrate rights which derive from administrative law relation for the parties included (f.e. users of expropriation etc.)

 

Analysis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- analyse the consequences of illegal administrative action (f.e. annulment, voiding decisions)

- differentiate individual acts that contain discretionary judgment from those in which all parts of the act are strictly connected;

- connect administrative law institutes with individual procedural laws

- solve a concrete problem-oriented task by the application of appropriate legal norm to a factual status;

 

Synthesis

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- design examples of situations with administrative characteristics;

- propose an optimal manner for solving a certain problem-oriented task;

- construct the solution of problems that occur due to the application of different legal regulations and by-laws which are not mutually adjusted applying the hierarchy of regulations and institutes

- distribute the roles of iondividual holders of control of administration (f.e. Constitutional Court, citizens, ombudsman etc.)

 

Evaluation

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:

- judge the correctness of applied legal rule to a concrete situation;

- reexamine the importance of adherence to the principle for performing public services with regard to current needs of society and their performance of general interest (f.e. principle of adjustability, principel of primacy of public service with regard to private services, principle of continuity);

- compare legal rules from individual procedural laws with the general Administrative Procedure Act and Administrative Disputes Act, and assess the level of their harmonisation;

- recommend to the party initiation of procedures before a certain public law body.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully mastering the course, students will be able to:

- clearly and precisely exprewss themselves presenting acquired learning outcomes;

- orally present acquired learning outcomes;

- argument their standpoints on administrative law matters.

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

- for learning outcomes of knowledge and understanding a mid-term examination;

- for application, synthesis and evaluation oral presentation testing the ability to solve legal problems and issues from administrative and administrative-judicial case law;

- for knowledge, understanding, analysis and synthesis a seminar paper

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