THE PROPOSAL OF THE INTEGRATED STUDY PROGRAMME OF THE UNIVERSITY LEGAL STUDY THROUGH THE FIRST AND SECOND LEVEL (UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE) IN THE DURATION OF FIVE YEARS

1.	INTRODUCTION

(Reasons for establishing the study; the proposal makers’ experience in the implementation of equivalent and similar programmes to date; openness of the study towards the student mobility)

In almost all EU countries, in accordance with the reformed study programmes corresponding to the Bologna process, only the completion of the university legal study in the duration of five years and obtaining the academic title of a master qualifies a person to perform the elite legal professions in the judiciary, public attorney’s office, public notary, the practice of law, as well as any to hold a leading or more responsible legal office in the state administration bodies and local self-government bodies, trading companies, institutions, political bodies, parties, associations, diplomatic and consular services and so on.
Starting from the aforementioned fact , the Croatian law schools, supported by the most important parts of the legal profession, consider that the optimum model of the future university legal study would be an integrated model of the implementation of the legal study programme through the first and second level (undergraduate and graduate) in the duration of five years, and that this model of the study organisations does not have an alternative of the equal quality. The detailed reasons for the establishment of such a study model are mentioned in the Pt. 2.7, in which the appropriate comparative experiences are given.
The Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb organises and is willing to start implementing an integrated study programme through the first and second level (undergraduate and graduate) in the duration of five years. Following the example of the best European and world experience, this study programme would be founded on the theoretical and practical study of law as a social phenomenon, on the knowledge of the legal system of the Republic of Croatia and the European Union, as well as legal systems of European and other developed countries.
In regards of ‘the experience of proposal makers in the implementation of equivalent and similar programmes to date’, it will be sufficient to mention that the Faculty of Law is one of the oldest institutions of the University of Zagreb, and out of all faculties in Zagreb the only one that has continually provided university legal education to the students for two hundred and twenty eight academic years, since 1776. In its third century of operation, the Faculty of Law has proved – by its continuous contribution to the creation of the Croatian legal system, the establishment of the rule of law and the education of new generations of lawyers in the finest European legal traditions – to be the most distinguished representative of the Croatian legal school, as one of the centres of the Central European legal tradition, and as such it is indisputably appreciated in the country and abroad.
All the aforementioned, including the fact that the Faculty of Law was one of the first faculties in Zagreb to introduce the ECTS system as early as three years ago, enables the maximum ‘openness of the study to the student mobility’, both on the domestic and international level. This is especially true in regards of the students from the Central European and the South-East European region, as it was already confirmed on numerous occasions.

2. GENERAL PART

1.1.	Name of the study: study for the education of masters of law (mag. iur.)
1.2.	Holder of the study: University in Zagreb – Faculty of Law
Performer of the study: Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb
1.3.	Duration of the study: 5 years (see Pt. 2.7.)
1.4.	Enrolment conditions: The following have the right to compete to enrol in the first year of the study: a) citizens of the Republic of Croatia, within the number determined by the announcement of enrolment, who have successfully completed the secondary school programme in the duration of five years; b) foreign citizens who have successfully completed appropriate secondary school education.

The classification procedure comprises: a) evaluation of the candidate’s academic standing in the secondary school, b) evaluation of the knowledge shown in the written test; the written test for the legal study contains questions from the areas of the Croatian language and literature, history, philosophy and logic, c) evaluation of the foreign language knowledge under the conditions that it is not their mother tongue, or the language they have studied in the secondary school, d) determination of the ordinal number of priority to register.

1.5.	See Pt. 2.7.
1.6.	See Pt. 2.7.
1.7.	Proposal to initiate the approved integrated implementation of the study programme of the university legal study:

In accordance with the Article 5 Par. 1 of the “Minimum common foundations of the university legal study curriculum in law schools in the Republic of Croatia”, issued by all Faculties of Law in the Republic of Croatia towards the end of 2004 (see Attachment 1), Faculties of Law decided to jointly submit the request to the National Council of Higher Education for the approval of the integrated implementation of the study programme of the university legal study through the first and second level (undergraduate and graduate) in the duration of five years, in accordance with the Art. 70, Par., 4 of the Law.  

Reasons:
1.	The integrated implementation of the study programme of the university legal study in the duration of five years is a customary model in several EU countries (e.g. Spain, Portugal, Greece, and in the future Germany and Italy, and it is completely dominant in the countries that belong to the Central European legal circle, as Croatia does, and which became the EU members in 2004 (see Attachments 2.1. and 2.2.), and whose experiences in the legal study reform and its adjustment to the Bologna process should therefore be particularly considered.
The most recent tendencies in Germany, Italy and Hungary, as the countries whose legal culture and legal education system has influenced the Croatian legal system for centuries and still continues to do so to the greatest extent, should be particularly emphasised.
1)	The conclusion of the 84th conference of the Association of the German Law Schools (Deutscher Juristen-Fakultätentag), held in June 2004 in regards of the Bologna-model stipulates in the Paragraph 3 that the implementation of “the academic level of bachelor is out of the question, because of the insufficient duration of the education in regards of the specific legal professions” (“…nicht in Betracht kommen”) (See Attachment 2.3.)
2)	The decision of the Ministry of Education, Science and Research (MIUR) of the Republic of Italy that, due to the negative experience, the already reformed programme of the legal study according to the model 3+2 should largely be replaced by the uniform legal study in the duration of five years according to the model 5+0 starting from the academic year 2005/2006 (so-called laurea magistrale in giurisprudenza) (See Attachment 2.4.)
3)	The new Hungarian legislature on higher education, based on the Bologna process, which determines for the study of law the integrated implementation of the study programme of the university legal study through the first and second cycle in the duration of five years, similarly to the study of medicine.

2.	In accordance with the experience of the mentioned countries, the integrated implementation of the study programme in the duration of five years represents an optimum model of the implementation of the reformed university legal study, since its duration enables:
a)	the incorporation of all necessary theoretical and practical contents into the legal study and
b)	adequate adjustment of the contents pertaining the national legal orders with the daily growing contents related to the EU legal order, as well as various comparative-legal aspects, all of which should urgently be included into the university legal study.

3.	In almost all EU countries, in accordance with the reformed study programmes corresponding to the Bologna process, only the completion of the university legal study in the duration of five years and obtaining the academic title of a master qualifies a person to perform the elite legal professions (judges, lawyers, General Attorneys, public notaries etc.). Taking into account the need to enter the labour market as soon as possible, apart from the aforementioned university legal study in the duration of five years and oriented toward the education of students for holding the highest legal offices, the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb plans to continue the long-standing co-operation with the Public Polytechnic in Zagreb in the organisation of the administrative law study in the duration of three years. The Faculty also plans to establish new, comparable programmes in the duration of three years (e.g. the tax law study), oriented toward the education of students for performing administrative-legal and tax-legal professions.

2.8. Professional or academic title or the degree gained by the completion of the study:

The completion of the study programme of the university legal study through the first and second cycle (undergraduate and graduate) in the duration of five years, in accordance with the Article 70, Par. 4 of the Law, the student would acquire 300 ECTS credits and the title of the master of law (mag. iur.). 

3. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

3.1. The list of obligatory and elective subjects with the number of teaching hours needed for their realisation and the number of ECTS credits

1ST SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS 	ECTS CREDITS	
1. GENERAL THEORY OF LAW AND STATE	6	8	
2. GENERAL HISTORY OF LAW AND STATE	6	8	
3. SOCIOLOGY	6	8	
SEMINAR	2	4	
FOREIGN LANGUAGE I	2	2	

2ND SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS 	ECTS 
CREDITS	
1. ROMAN PRIVATE LAW	6	8	
2. CROATIAN LEGAL HISTORY IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT	6	8	
3. POLITICAL 
ECONOMY
	6	8	
SEMINAR	2	4	
FOREIGN LANGUAGE II	2	2	

3RD SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS 	ECTS CREDITS	
1. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW	6	8	
2. FAMILY LAW	6	8	
3. LEGAL INFORMATION SCIENCE	6	8	
SEMINAR	2	4	
FOREIGN LANGUAGE III	2	2	

4TH SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS	ECTS CREDITS	
1. EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW	6	8	
2. CRIMINAL LAW	6	8	
3. ECONOMIC POLICY	6	8	
SEMINAR	2	4	
FOREIGN LANGUAGE IV	2	2	

5TH SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS	ECTS CREDITS	
1. CIVIL LAW I: 
GENERAL PART AND LAW OF OBLIGATIONS 	6	8	
2. CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW	6	8	
3. REVENUE LAW AND FINANCIAL SCIENCE 	6	8	
SEMINAR	2	4	
PRACTICE (CRIMINAL LAW)	2	2	

6TH SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS	ECTS CREDITS	
1. CIVIL LAW II: 
   LAW OF REAL PROPERTY AND LAW OF INHERITANCE 	6	8	
2. INTERNATIONAL LAW	6	8	
3. ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE	6	8	
SEMINAR	2	4	
PRACTICE (CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW)	2	2	

7TH SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS	ECTS CREDITS	
1. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW	6	8	
2. COMMERCIAL LAW	6	8	
3. CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW	6	8	
SEMINAR 	2	4	
PRACTICE (CIVIL LAW)	2	2	

8TH SEMESTER

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS	ECTS CREDITS	
1. COMPANY LAW	6	8	
2. LABOUR LAW AND SOCIAL SECURITY 
	6	8	
3. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW	6	8	
4. MARITIME AND GENERAL TRANSPORT LAW	6	8	
SEMINAR 	2	4	
PRACTICE (CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW)	2	2	

9TH SEMESTER:

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS	ECTS CREDITS	
1. COURSE SUBJECT I	2	4	
2. COURSE SUBJECT II	2	4	
3. COURSE SUBJECT III	2	4	
4. ELECTIVE SUBJECT I	2	4	
5. ELECTIVE SUBJECT II	2	4	
6. ELECTIVE SUBJECT III	2	4	
PRACTICE (ADMINISTRATIVE LAW)	2	2	
DIPLOMA ESSAY
(INCLUDING ADVANCED SEMINAR)	2	4	

10TH SEMESTER:

SUBJECT	TEACHING HOURS	ECTS CREDITS	
1. COURSE SUBJECT I	2	4	
2. COURSE SUBJECT II	2	4	
3. COURSE SUBJECT III	2	4	
4. ELECTIVE SUBJECT I	2	4	
5. ELECTIVE SUBJECT II	2	4	
6. ELECTIVE SUBJECT III	2	4	
PRACTICE / CLINICS / MOOT COURTS	2	2	
DIPLOMA ESSAY
(INCLUDING ADVANCED SEMINAR)	2	4	

COURSE SUBJECTS IN THE 5TH YEAR:

1.	CIVIL LEGAL COURSE:

I.	Civil Law – Contractual Obligations
II.	Land-Registry Law
III.	Copyright
IV.	Notarial Law
V.	Basic European Private Law 
VI.	Law of Distraint 

2.	CRIMINAL LEGAL COURSE

I.	International Criminal Law 
II.	Juvenile Criminal Law
III.	Criminology and Victimology 
IV.	Law of Misdemeanors
V.	Criminal Science
VI.	Penitential Law

3.	CONSTITUTIONAL-ADMINISTRATIVE COURSE

I.	Introduction to Political Science
II.	Rights of Citizens in the European and Croatian Legal Tradition
III.	Local Self-Government
IV.	Administrative procedural Law
V.	Contemporary Political systems
VI.	Environmental Law

4.	COMMERCIAL-LEGAL COURSE

I.	Banking Law
II.	Industrial Property Law
III.	Insurance Law
IV.	Competition Law
V.	Insolvency Law
VI.	Settlement of Disputes through Arbitration and Reconciliation

ELECTIVE SUBJECTS:

Morality and Deontology of the Legal Profession 
English for Law
European Private International Law
Philosophy of Law
French for Law
Mortgage Guarantee – Historical Aspect
Out-of-court Settlement of Disputes
Comparative Public Administration
Medicine and Law
International Economic Relations
International Relations and Diplomacy 
International Revenue Law 
International Law of the Sea
International Labour Law and Social Security 
Methodology of Law
Nomotechnique
German for Law
Organisation of the Judiciary
Basic Pandect Law
Personal Rights
Enterprise and Management
History of Modern Political Theories (15th – 20th ct.)
Rhetoric and Argumentation – Historical Aspect
Rhetoric and Law
Social Policy
Social Psychology
Legal Sociology
Sociology of Administration 
Medical Jurisprudence
Forensic Psychology
Internal Market of the European Union
Elective subject from another study
OBLIGATORY (COMPULSORY) SUBJECTS

The subjects that are obligatory for all the students last a semester, they are taught six hours per week and the student earns 8 ECTS credits for passing the examination. In general, each semester contains three obligatory subjects.

COURSE SUBJECTS

In the fifth year of the study, students choose one out of four possible study courses: civil, criminal, constitutional-administrative and commercial legal course. Each course comprises six course subjects, out of which three are taken in the ninth semester, and three in the tenth semester.
Course subjects are taught two hours per week, and the student earns 4 ECTS credits for passing the examination.

ELECTIVE SUBJECTS

In the fifth year of the study, students choose six elective subjects, out of which three are taken in the ninth semester, and three in the tenth semester. As an elective subject, the student may select a “course subject” from a course he or she did not select.
Individual elective subjects may be recommended to the students who are taking the appropriate course.
Elective subjects are taught for two hours per week, and the student earns 4 ECTS credits for passing the examination.

SEMINARS

From the first to the eighth semester, students are obliged to take one seminar among three subjects that are obligatory in the respective study semester.
Seminars are held for two hours per week, and with the successful completion of the seminar obligations, the student earns 4 ECTS credits.
In the fifth year of the study, the seminar is taken in the form of additional advanced seminar in one of obligatory subjects in the duration of two semesters, as a preparation for the diploma essay in the respective subject. The aforementioned seminar – under the guidance of the mentor – includes the instruction in legal research, in accordance with the selected legal subject matter, as a constituent part of the preparation for preparing and defending the diploma essay.

PRACTICAL TRAINING (practice, clinical studies in law, moot courts)

From the fifth to the tenth semester, students are obliged to take practical training in the form of practice.
Practice is conducted for two hours per week, and for the successful completion of his or her obligations the students earns 2 ECTS credits.
Student take practice in the subjects they have completed in the previous semester, and one semester of practice in criminal law, criminal procedural law, civil law, civil procedural law and administrative law.
In the tenth semester of the study, students freely choose practice in other obligatory private law and public law disciplines according to the departmental offer, with the possibility that practical training in that semester is focused on clinical legal studies (clinical studies in civil law, clinical studies in criminal law) and moot courts.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION

From the first to the fourth semester, students are obliged to attend the foreign language for law instruction (English or German). Foreign languages are taught for two hours per week, and with the successful completion of obligations, students earn 2 ECTS credits per semester.

The students who have attended secondary school, the curriculum of which did not include at least two years of studying Latin, are obliged to successfully complete a special course in the Latin language for law in the first semester.

REQUIREMENTS FOR ENROLMENT IN A HIGHER YEAR OF THE STUDY

The students has the right to enrol to a higher year of the study when he or she earns at least 50 ECTS credits in the previous year of the study.

3.2. THE DESCRIPTION OF EACH SUBJECT

-	basic contents of the each subject  (see: attachment 1) 

-	the development of general and specific competencies:
o	subjects through which basic knowledge of the foundations and the development of the Croatian and European legal systems and jurisprudence necessary for the continuation of the law study is acquired: General Theory of Law and State; Roman Private Law; Croatian Legal History in the European Context; General History of Law and State 
o	subjects through which basic knowledge of social sciences is acquired: Sociology; Political Economy; Economic Policy; Legal Information Science 
o	subjects through which basic knowledge of the legal sphere necessary for performing judiciary jobs (judges, lawyers, notaries public etc.) is acquired: Constitutional Law; Family Law, Criminal Law; Criminal Procedural Law; Civil Law I and II; Civil Procedural Law; Administrative Law; Labour Law and Social Security; Commercial Law; Company Law; Private International Law
o	subjects through which basic knowledge of the legal sphere necessary for performing administrative and financial legal tasks is acquired: Constitutional Law; Administrative Science; Administrative Law; Revenue Law and Financial Science 
o	subjects through which basic knowledge of the legal sphere necessary for performing tasks in diplomatic and consulary services, as well as international and European organisations, is acquired: International Law; European Public Law 
o	subjects through which basic knowledge of the legal sphere necessary to perform tasks in trading companies and the banking system is acquired: Civil Law II; Commercial Law; Company Law; Maritime and General Transit Law 
o	subjects through which basic knowledge of the world languages for law is acquired: English for Law; German for Law; French for Law 
o	course subjects and elective subjects provide intensified and specific knowledge important for performing particular types of highly specialised jobs in the aforementioned spheres 

-	forms of teaching and manners in which knowledge is tested: lectures, seminars and practice; seminar papers, examinations, diploma essay 

-	the examination procedure: examinations are taken orally, or in writing and orally, in accordance with the Statute of the University of Zagreb 

-	the manner in which quality and successfulness of the realisation of each subject is monitored: anonymous student survey, the comparison of the regularity of attendance and success in examinations in individual subjects.

ATTACHMENT 1: 

BASIC CONTENTS OF THE EACH SUBJECT

1st SEMESTER

1. GENERAL THEORY OF LAW AND STATE

Course description

Introduction
   -  The role of the subject General Theory of Law and State in legal science and legal study.

State: social and political basis, features, elements, organs and functions 
   -  Principal objects of legal science: state and law. Their origin and social and  
       political basis.
-  Structure, organs and functions of state. Division of powers. Legislature. Judiciary.   
    Administration. Competence. 
   -  Social and political basis and features of state. External and internal sovereignty. Social  
       character of state. State and coercion. Human rights. State and democracy. The rule of  
       law. Legitimacy of state power. Form of government: monarchies and republics. Unitary
       and federal states.
  -   State elements: territory, population, government.
 
Legal norm, legal relation, legal act
-	The concept of legal norm. Legal norm with regard to addressees, territorial validity,      temporal validity, composition and intensity. Determination of elements of legal norm.
-	Unlawfulness and liability. Instances of exemption from liability. Reaction of legal      authorities to unlawful acts. Degrees of guilt. Purposes of punishment.
-	The concept of legal relation. Subjects: natural and legal persons. Legal and operative capacity. The relation of representation. Legal object. Subjective law. Legal obligation. Legal facts, presumptions and fictions. Termination of legal relation.
-	The concept of legal act. Relations between legal acts and the principle of legality. Legal remedies. General and individual enactments. Constitution, law and by-laws. Customary law. Private acts.

Legal system and legal techniques
-	Legal system. Systemic units: legal institute, branches of law, groups of law. Objective
     and subjective law, substantive and procedural law, public and private law, internal and  
     international law. Legal system as an ideal and reality.
-	Legal techniques. Interpretation of legal rules. Basic techniques of interpretation of legal
      rules. Linguistic, logical, systematic, historical, teleological, literal, restricted and   
      extended interpretation. Antinomies in law. Legal gaps. Analogy. 

Theoretical approaches to law
-	School of natural law.
-	Historical legal school.
-	The theory of interest and the theory of solidarity in legal perception.
-	Normative theory.
-	Contemporary legal theories.

2. SOCIOLOGY

Course description

Domain of sociology (Sociological imagination; Perspectives in sociology; Sociology of science; Methods of sociological research)
Foundations of modern sociology (M. Weber; E. Durkheim; Functionalism; Symbolic interactionism; Marxist tradition; Systemic theory; New sociology)
Social structure of society (Organizations and social institutions; Power, class, status; Ethnicity)
Social institutions (Family; Religion; Education; Political institutions; Economic sociology; Sociology of organization)
Social world construction (Social construction of knowledge, Socialization; Culture; Social  construction of deviant)
Social conflicts (Industrial conflicts; New social conflicts; Sociology of war)
Processes of social changes (Modernization; Globalisation; Transition; Social movements; Sexuality; Poverty; Social exclusion; Socio-demographic changes; New political ideologies)
The concept of sociology of law (Relation of sociology towards legal science: Jurisprudence, law and social sciences, sociology of law; Relationship of sociology of law towards sociology; Sources and subject-matter of sociology of law)
Theoretical foundations of sociology of law  (Eugen Erlich; Marxism; Max Weber; American legal realism; Georges Gurvitch; New- Marxist concepts; Niklas Luhmann;  Roberto Unger; Critical theory of law; Richard Posner)
Empirical foundations of sociology of law (Research of the legal profession: background, appointment, status, career; Organization of the judicial profession; Economic analysis of law)
Law as a social phenomenon: historical and comparative perspectives (Various legal traditions; Revolutions in law)
Legal Profession (Crisis of legal education; Judiciary, advocacy)
Law, ethics and culture (Relationship between culture and law; Historical legal school; Legal culture) 
Law and social control (Deviance and delinquency; Social determination of punishment; Institutions of social control)
Law and politics (Legislative processes; Courts and judicial power; Lawyers in policy formation)
Settlement of conflicts (Informal settlement of conflicts; Mediation; Legal customs)
Law and social change (Instrumental concept of law; Legislature; Transnational law) 	                 

3. GENERAL HISTORY OF LAW AND STATE

Course description

     Introduction
     The subject-matter of the science of General History of Law and State; the relation of this science towards other fundamental, social and legal sciences; the purpose of study of this science; the development of the science of the history of law and state from Antiquity to the middle of the 19th century.

     Law and state of the Ancient World
     Babylonian law and state, 19-16 cc. BC.
Society and economy. State organization: form of government, tax, army, administration and judiciary. General characteristics of law: formal and legal sources; particular branches of law: property, obligations, matrimonial and family, inheritance, penal, procedural.
     Athenian law and state, 8- 4 cc. BC.
Society and economy; taxes, army. The state in aristocratic (8–6 cc.) and democratic (6–4 cc.) periods; areopagus, council, heliaea, civil servants. Law: property, obligations, matrimonial and family, inheritance, penal, judicial procedure.

     Law and state of the Middle Ages, 5–19 cc.
     Frankish law and state, 5–10 cc.    
Society and economy during the period of the patriarchal kingdom (6–8 cc.) and during the period of strengthening of military order and weakening of central power (8-10 cc.). State composition: national assembly, noble diet, king; army; military-administrative and judicial organization. Church. Law: sources of law; particular branches of law: property, inheritance, family, obligations, penal, procedural.
     English law and state, 11–15 cc.
Society and economy during the period of laying foundations for the kingdom of estates (11– 13 cc.) and the period of establishment and development of the kingdom of estates (13–15 cc.); society; clergy; lords temporal; citizens, peasants, serfs, enslaved. Army. Taxes (regular and irregular royal revenue). State composition: central government (king, grand council, curia regis, parliament), local government (counties, cities, landed nobility). Law: sources of law (common law, statute law, equity law), particular branches of law (property, family, inheritance, criminal), court organization and court procedure. Ecclesiastical law: sources (substantive and procedural) of canon law. 
     Turkish law and state, 14–19 cc.
Society and economy during the periods: origin and establishment of permanent state entity (13–15 cc.), world power (15–17 cc.), decline of world power (18–19 cc.). Economy, army, tax system, feudal system. State composition: central government, local authorities and judiciary. Law: sources of law (state, sharia, customary); some branches of sharia law (matrimonial, inheritance, criminal, court procedure).

 Law and state of the Modern World (classical forms of European state and law, 16-20 cc.)
    English law and state, 16–20 cc.
Society, economy, political circumstances during the period: establishment of precedent for parliamentarism; absolute monarchy attempt; aristocratic parliamentarism; democratic parliamentarism; Constitution: constitutional documents and constitutional practice 
(parliamentary government, political electoral rights, relationship between the upper and lower houses). Law: sources of law (common law, statute law, equity law), particular branches of law (property, obligations, criminal), organization of local authorities and judiciary. 
     USA – law and state, 18–20 cc.
Society, economy, political circumstances during the periods: colonial, revolution, confederation, early period of federation, period of becoming industrial world power.
Constitution: powers and organization of federal government  (congress, president, federal judiciary, constitutional judicature); development of federalism. Political parties. Law.       
        French law and state, 18–20 cc.
Society, economy, constitutional and political circumstances during the periods: revolution (constitutional kingdom, First Republic, the period of Napoleon (constitution, administration, judiciary, relation between Church and state, law), Restoration, Second Republic, Third Republic (constitution, administration, judiciary, Church and state, political parties, law).
     The Commune of Paris, 18 March – 28 May 1871
Social, economic and political circumstances of the establishment of the Commune; organization of the Commune government (council, committees, public salvation committee), activities of the Commune.
     Russian and Soviet law and state, 1860–1941
Society, economy and political circumstances of the Russian Empire during the period of absolute monarchy (1860-1905) and the period of the beginning of democratic parliamentary monarchy (1905 – March 1917); the Republic of Russia (March – November 1917). Soviet Russia during the period until the adoption of the Constitution (summer 1918) and after the adoption of the Constitution. Creation of the USSR and its Constitution of 1924. Soviet law until 1924. Society, economy and political circumstances in the USSR during the period 1924 –1941. The Constitution of 1936: organization of administration, judiciary; army; particular branches of law (civil, kolkhoz, matrimonial, labour, criminal law and criminal procedure).

2nd SEMESTER

1.ROMAN PRIVATE LAW
 
Course description

     Introduction
     The concept and current importance of Roman law. Reasons for its studying within legal studies. Views of Roman jurists on law; definitions and divisions of Roman law.

     Historical development of Roman law
     Periods of Roman legal history – the period of civil law, the period of praetorian (honorary) law and the periods of classical and postclassical law. Prerequisites for the development of law: substantive and technical characteristics and principal substantive sources (in the narrow sense) of each period – basic characteristics of civil law, mechanism of creating law by praetors, activities and achievements of classical jurisprudence as the culmination in the development of Roman law and commentary on pre-Justinian collections of law. Justinian Code (Corpus iuris civilis) which marks the end of the ancient history of Roman law.  	
     Byzantine codifications of Roman law (Ecloga, Proheiron, Basilicas, Hexabiblos). Effects of Justinian Code on the West. Glossatorial school – representatives; Acursius – “Glossa magistralis seu ordinaria”.  Post-glossators and the notion ius commune. Bartolus de Sassoferrato and Baldus de Ubaldis. French historical school of elegant jurisprudence – Donelus, Cuiacius, Faber, D. Gothofredus. School of natural law; Hugo Grotius. Usus modernus Pandectarum. Adopted Roman law and European civil codes of the 19th century, Pandectists and BGB (1900). Roman legal tradition, modern civil codes and the European legal system.
                     
     Status law
     Legal subjects; legal capacity and capacity for work and the grounds for their limitation. Genesis and termination of a natural person. Status libertatis, civitatis and familiae. Legal  persons, their development and forms.

     Family law     
     Historical development and general features of the Roman family. Kinds and degrees of affinity.
     The concept of Roman marriage; marriage cum manu and marriage sine manu and their effects with regard to spouses and their property relations. Dowry (dos) and donatio ante nuptias. Divorce (divortium).
     Patria potestas – content (in personal and proprietary respect) and termination (with emphasis on emancipatio).
     Tutorship (tutela impuberum and tutela mulierum) and guardinaship (cura), concept and development.

     Property law - introduction
     The concept and kinds of property rights. Res corporales and res incorporales. Categories of things: res in commercio, res extra commercium; res mancipi, res nec mancipi; res 
mobiles, res immobiles; res fungibiles, res non fungibiles; res consumptibiles, res non
consumptibiles; divisible and indivisible things; simple, complex and collective things (universitas rerum); main thing and addition; fructiferous things and fruits (fructus civiles, fructus naturales).
      Possession (possessio). Historical development and legal effects of possession. Kinds of possession: possessio ad interdicta (juristic possession), possessio naturalis (detention), possessio civilis (qualified possession); possessio vitiosa and possessio non vitiosa; possessio iusta and possessio iniusta; possessio bonae fidei and possessio malae fidei. Acquisition, duration and termination of possession. Traditio brevi manu, consitutum possessiorum. Interdicta retinendae possessionis, interdicta recuperandae possessionis and interdicta adipiscendae possessionis. Theories of the protection of possession. The concept of the possession of rights (quasi-possession).

      Individual property rights  
     The right of ownership (dominium; proprietas). The concept and historical development of private ownership. Kinds of Roman ownership: Quiritarian ownership (domnium ex iure Quiritium), bonitary ownership (in bonis habere), provincial ownership, peregrine ownership. Restrictions of ownership. Co-ownership (condominium). Acquisition of ownership. Derivative ways of ownership acquisition: manciaptio, in iure cessio and traditio. Originary ways of ownership acquisition: occupation, treasure find, accession (“superficies solo credit”), river alluvia and changes, commixtio and confusio, specificatio, acquisition of fruits. Usucapion (usucapio in civil and classical law, longi temporis praescriptio, longissimi temporis praescriptio, usucapion in Justinian law). Termination (cessation) of ownership. Protection of ownership. Actio rei vindicatio. Actio negatoria. Actio Publiciana. Protection of land ownership in neighbourly relations. 
     Servitudes (servitutes). Concept and common rules. Land servitudes (servitutes praediorum rusticorum and servitutes praediorum urbanorum). Personal servitudes 
(servitutes personarum: ususfrucus, usus, habitatio and operae servorum vel animalium). Acquisition and termination of servitudes. Actio confessoria.
 Emphyteusis (ager vectigalis, ius perpetuum). Concept, historical development and protection.
     Superficies (building right). Concept, historical development and protection.
     Security rights. Concept, characteristics and historical development. Kinds of security rights: fiducia (fiducia cum amico and fiducia cum creditore), pignus and hypotheca. Protection of security rights (interdictum Salvianum, actio Serviana and actio quasi Serviana). Origin and subject-matter of security rights (contractual, judicial and legal security rights). Content of security rights and the relation among different security rights on the same thing  pignus Gordianum, lex commissoria, the rule “prior tempore, potior iure”.
Termination of security rights.

     The law of obligations – general part
     Legal facts and legal actions. Forms of legal actions. Expression of will and interpretation of legal actions. The content of legal actions (essentialia, naturalia and accidentalia negotii). Condition (condicio); kinds of conditions, false conditions, effects of conditions. Term (dies). Order (modus). Invalidity of legal actions: nullity and voidance. Validation  (regula Catoniana), conversion. Reasons for invalidity of legal actions. Deficiencies of will: conscious and unconscious incompatibility of will and expression (error); debauchery in motive, fraud (dolus), and force (vis ac metus). Representation in legal actions. Calculation of time in law.     
     Legal nature of obligations. Natural obligations (obligationes naturales). Origin of obligations. Obligations from contract (obligationes ex contractu). Obligations from 
delict (obligationes ex delicto). Legal content of obligations; acts in general, the content of the obligatory act. Contracts stricti iuris and bonae fidei. Damages: contractual and delictual obligations, requirements for damages, degrees of guilt (dolus-culpa-casus). Contractual penalty (stipulatio poenae). Interests. Delay of debtors and creditors (mora); requirements and consequences. Subjects of obligations. Joint and several obligations; collateral subjects of obligations (adstipulatio, intercessio). Effects of obligations towards third persons; contracts for the benefit and burden of third persons. Actiones adiecticiae qualitatis. Change of subjects by transfer of claims and debts; cession. Termination of obligations; termination of obligations ipso iure (solutio per aes et libram, acceptilatio, fulfilment of obligations, novation, confusio, concursus causarum) and ope exceptionis (pactum de non petendo, compensatio).

     Special part – individual obligations     
     Obligations from contracts. Verbal contracts (stipulation etc.). Literal contracts (expensilatio, chirographa and syngraphae). Real contracts (mutuum, fiducia, depositum, commodatum, contractus pigneraticius).
     Consensual contracts. Purchase and sale (emptio venditio); characteristics, object of purchase and sale, features of purchase prices – laesio enormis. The seller’s obligations, the principle of “periculum est emptoris”, obligation for eviction and material defects of things  – actio redhibitoria, actio quanti minoris). Incidental purchase and sale provisions.
     Lease contract (locatio conductio) – concept and historical development, locatio conductio rei, locatio conductio operis, locatio conductio operarum – obligations and liability of parties, claims.
     Social contract (societas); forms, obligations and liability of parties, actio pro socio.
    
 Order (mandatum – characteristics, obligations and liability of parties, actio mandati, directa and contraria. Mandatum qualificatum.
     Innominate contracts; historical development, forms, kinds. Pacta (pacta adiecta, pacta praetoria, pacta legitima (donatio).  
     Obligations from quasi-contracts. Negotiorum gestio. Communio incidens. Condictiones sine causa.
     Obligations from delicts – delicta privata and delicta publica. Private civil law delicts (furtum, rapina, damnum iniuria datum, iniuria).  Honorary law delicts (dolus, vis ac metus, alienatio in fraudem creditorum).
     Quasi-delicts (iudex qui litem suam fecit etc.).

     Inheritance law
     The concept and historical development of inheritance law. Kinds of inheritance: intestate (lines of succession), testamentary (development of testament, testamenti factio activa and passiva, substitutions, codicils) and compulsory succession (formal and substantive compulsory succession). Delatio and aquisitio. Usucapio pro herede. Transmission and accrescence. Effects of inheritance. Inheritance claims (hereditatis petitio). Legacies – concept and types. Fideicommissa; fideicommissary substitutions and family fideicommissum. Donatio mortis causa.

     Roman civil procedure
     The concept and development of Roman civil procedure. Organization of courts. Iudicium privatum and its two-stage structure (in iure and apud iudicem). Legal action procedure. Formula and formulary procedure. The notion of cognitional procedure – structure and course.

2. CROATIAN LEGAL HISTORY IN THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT

Course description

     The purpose of studying legal history. Methodology of legal and historical research. National legal history and comparative approach.

     General characteristics of the formation of states in the territory of central and south Europe after the dissolution of the West Roman Empire. State and legal traditions in Croatian surroundings before and during the period of formation of the Croatian state (Roman Empire, Byzant, Venice, Langobard state, Frankish kingdom, Hungary). Christianity. 

     Creation and development of the Croatian state and law until the 12th century and relationship with the surroundings; structure of power; Church organization. Beginnings of feudalism and the development of law.

     Constitutional and legal development in the Croatian surroundings 12-16 centuries (the Venetian Republic, the Bosnian state, areas under the Ottoman government, the Habsburgs); ius commune and canon law; Venetian law. Hungarian-Croatian union and the position of Croatia. Diets; counties; towns. Judiciary and administration. Law: customary law and ius commune; legal areas in the Croatian territory; legal education; sources of law (collections of laws, statutory law, terrier law; status and family law, penal and civil law, procedural law).
                                                           
      Main characteristics of constitutional and legal development in central Europe until 1848: Holy Roman Empire, German lands, lands under the government of the Habsburgs. The Habsburgs’ accession to the Hungarian and Croatian throne 1526-27. The Croatian Diet and the Hungarian Diet. Creation and characteristics of the military-administrative system of the Military Border. The Pragmatic Sanction. The Period of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. Hungarian nationalism and Croatian autonomy 1790-1848. Political ideas and movements in Croatia until 1848.
Law in Croatia from the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century: Tripartite; judicial organization and procedure; organizational and legal reforms of Maria Theresa.

     Formation of modern national states in central and south Europe in the 19th c. (Italy and Germany); modern national legal systems and codification (ABGB, CC, BGB; German and Austrian commercial law; codification of criminal law and criminal procedure). Small states and national autonomies in Europe until 1918: Norway, Ireland, Finland, etc. National movements and revolutions in Europe, Vienna and Hungary 1848. Constitutional and social changes in Croatia in 1848. The March Constitution of 1849 and absolutism 1850-59. Restitution of constitutionality and the Diet 1861; Croatian national ideologies and political parties. Austrian-Hungarian Compromise. The period of ban I. Mažuranić 1873-80. Reintegration of the Military Border into the Croatian legal system 1873-82. The period of ban K. Khuen Hedervary 1883-1903. Political changes in Europe, Austria-Hungary and Croatia until the First World War. The position of Rijeka until 1918.

     Austrian law and modern reforms in Croatia 1850-59: ABGB, land registers, commercial law, societies, civil procedure; criminal law and criminal procedure, position of citizens; 
organization of administration and judiciary, advocacy, notaries public; Mažuranić’s reforms: 
Austrian and European models and the concept of the rule of law; reforms of administration 
and judiciary, reforms of criminal law and criminal procedure, civil rights; the problem of
implementation of reforms in political and social reality. Regulation of joint communal- families and private land ownership. Legal education from the establishment of political-cameral study inVaraždin 1769 until the middle of the 20th century; essential characteristics of modern Croatian legal culture.     
Constitutional and legal development in other Croatian territories until 1918.
Dalmatian towns and statutory law until the beginning of the 15th century. Dalmatia in the Venetian Republic until 1797. French government and law in Dalmatia and other Croatian territories 1805-13. Dalmatia in Austria (1797-1805; 1813-1918). The Dalmatian Diet; political and ideological movements.    
The Dubrovnik Republic until 1806; international position; social structure, organization of government, law. 
Istria  in the Middle Ages: position and organization; ethnic and social structure; law. Istria under the Habsburgs; the Istrian Diet; political and social movements.
Modern Austrian legislation after 1860 (civil rights, administration and judiciary, criminal law, civil law and criminal procedure) in the Croatian territories. 

     Policy of great powers and structural changes in the Croatian surroundings from the 19th century until the end of the First World War. Dissolution of the Ottoman Empire 19-20 cc. Serbian state and law 19 c. – 1918, Greater Serbian ideology and Serbian state policy; 
Montenegrin state and law of 19 c. – 1918; borders on the Balkans; Bosnia and Herzegovina in Austria-Hungary: occupation 1878, annexation 1908, the Diet of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
national issue and Croatian nation, law. The First World War and the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. Peace agreements and new international order in Europe.

     Genesis of the establishment of the first Yugoslav state 1914-18. The State of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The establishment of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes and its international position. Rijeka 1918-24: international position. Legal and political movements in the Yugoslav state: the Vidovdan Constitution of 1921; the Dictatorship of 6 January 1929; the Constitution of 1931; the Banate of Croatia 1939. Political parties after 1918. Particularism and unification of law in the territory of the Yugoslav state; main characteristics of particular branches of law.

     Dissolution of the Yugoslav state in the Second World War. The Independent State of Croatia: establishment, international position; ustasha movement and the state government; racial laws. Formation of the Yugoslav federal system within the anti-fascist movement and the position of Croatia; government in exile and the new government. Formation of administration, judicial organization and the legal system within the anti-fascist movement.

      International and internal determination of development in Yugoslavia 1945-91. The Constitutional Acts 1946-74; federalism and Croatian statehood, internal borders. Main characteristics of the constitutional, political and legal system and the role of the Communist Party/League of Communists. Basic characteristics of the legal system: politics and law, the principle of legality; self-management and social ownership; position of citizens and civil rights; labour law and social security law, civil law, civil procedure, criminal law and criminal procedure, political trials; other branches of law.

     Dissolution of the Yugoslav state and the establishment of the Republic of Croatia and other states 1991: constitutional and international legal aspects.

3. POLITICAL ECONOMY

Course description

     (1)The origin of the term and the subject-matter of Political Economy; (2) Survey of the history of economic thought; (3) Economic process, its phases and interaction; (4) Production,  production factors and their combination, general theory of production and production function; (5) Human factor, role, transition of population, human resource; (6) Technological progress, role and levels of scientific research, phases of technological progress, monopolization and transfer of knowledge, technological potential, technological dependence; (7) Entrepreneurship and management, development of the theory of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial risk, pseudo-entrepreneurship, successful entrepreneurship, management and its functions; (8) Organization and activities of an enterprise, kinds of enterprises, functional structure, effects of the process of globalisation, lifespan and adaptation of an enterprise;  
 (9) Elements of the theory of costs, problem of the indivisibility of factors, kinds of costs, the 
principle of minimization of costs, integral calculation of costs, economy and diseconomy of scale; (10) Measurement of earning results, analytical value of macroeconomic aggregates and their specific features, methods of measurement, diachronic and international comparison; (11) Reproduction of capital and reproduction of social relations, reduced, simple and extended reproduction, the theory of reproduction, input-output analysis, econometric models; (12) Distribution, the role of the state, mechanisms of distribution, entrepreneurial gain, profit, interest, rent, rental fee; (13) Exchange, market and its functions, offer, demand, flexibility, market structure, types of market, limits of market efficacy, money and its functions, credit-monetary policy; (14) Consumption, forms, structure, role of the state; (15) Economic development, factors of successful development, obstacles to economic development, transitional economies and development.

LEGAL ENGLISH  I & II

Course description

Legal topics: What Is Meant by Law?; Sources and Varieties of English Law; Statute Law in Britain; The British Judiciary; The Doctrine of Precedent; The Legal Profession in England; Talking to a Barrister; Legal Aid; A Day in a Civil Court; A Day in a Criminal Court; Roman Civil Procedure; From the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia: Basic Provisions and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; Judicial Power in the Republic of Croatia; The European Court of Human Rights; The Nature and Sources of American Federalism; The American Presidency; The Supreme Court of the United States; The Case Method of Law Teaching.

Language study: reading and understanding various legal texts; oral and written analysis of legal texts; legal terminology, note-taking, writing essays and summaries, legal translation, grammatical structures typical for legal language (articles, word order, word formation, tenses, modal verbs, passive).

LEGAL GERMAN  I & II      

Course description

Legal topics: Das Recht als System von Rechtsnormen; Juristenausbildung und Juristische Berufe in Deutschland; Verfassungsrechtliche Grundlagen der Republik Kroatien; Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland als föderativer Staat; Die Grundrechte im deutschen Grundgesetz; Die europäische Menschenrechtskonvention; Die rechtsprechende Gewalt in Deutschland; Die ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit nach deutschem Recht; Das Strafverfahren bis zur Verkündung des Urteils in erster Instanz; Eine österreichische Anklageschrift; Grundsätzliches über das schweizerische Strafrecht; Strafdelikte im Internet.

Language study: Satzbau: Die Stellung des Verbs in Hupt- und Nebensätzen; Die Deklination der attributiven Adjektive und Partizipien; Erweiterte Partizipien; Vorgangs- und Zustandspassiv; Infinitivgruppe als Objektsatz; Modalverben; Rektion der Verben; Präpositionen; Wortbildung. 

3rd SEMESTER

1. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Course description

1. Fundamental principles and general issues of constitutional law. Subject-matter of constitutional law. Relation between constitutional law and political science. Constitutional law as a branch of the legal system. Methods of studying constitutional law. Sources of constitutional law.

2. Survey of the development of constitutionality. Different meanings of the term constitution. Formation of the idea of constitution and constitutional government as limitation of political power and legal foundation of democratic order. Causes for adopting the first written constitutions. Development of constitutionality in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries (USA, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Russia and transitional countries). Basic characteristics of contemporary constitutions. Kinds of constitutions. Basic characteristics of the development of constitutionality in Croatia. Structure and fundamental characteristics of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia.   

3. Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Causes for adopting the first declarations of the rights of man and the citizen. Development of constitutional protection of human rights and freedoms. Personal freedoms and rights. Political freedoms and rights. Economic, social and cultural rights. Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms according to the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms within the Council of Europe – the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The European Court of Human Rights. 

4. The principle of constitutionality and legality and the forms of its control. Reasons and forms of controlling constitutionality of laws in the world. The American system of constitutionality and legality control. The European system of constitutionality of laws control – Austria, Germany, France. Protection of constitutionality and legality in the Republic of Croatia. The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia – selection, organization, jurisdiction..

5. Foundations of state power and the electoral system. Origin and development of the theories of sovereignty. The principle of national sovereignty. Formation and legal elements of the theory of representation. Electoral system, theory and practice of representation. Legal and organizational elements of elections. Electoral rights in the Republic of Croatia. Extension of representative democracy by referendum and other forms of direct decision-making.

6. Organization of state power. Differentiation of functions in the state. The principle of division of powers. Representative bodies and their structure. Organization and functions of representative bodies. Intervention of executive bodies in legislative function, distortion of competence in case of emergency and on the basis of authority of the legislative body. Organization and function of the judiciary. The system of presidential rule – USA. The system of parliamentary rule, survey of its development and fundamental characteristics.
Limited monarchy, Orleans parliamentarism, parliamentarism of distorted balance in favour of legislative power, Weimar parliamentarism, parliamentarism of distorted balance in favour of executive power. Contemporary parliamentarism – the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy. Semi-presidential system – France. The head of the state as an arbiter. Cohabitation rule. The principle of the unity of powers and the assembly system – Switzerland.   

7. Organization of powers in the Republic of Croatia according to the Constitution of 1990 – semi-presidential system. Organization of powers in the Republic of Croatia according to the Amendments to the Constitution of 2000 and 2001 – parliamentary system. The Croatian Parliament (Sabor) – structure, organization and function. President of the Republic of Croatia – way of election and function. Government of the Republic of Croatia – organization, responsibility and function. Judicial power – organization and function. Local and regional self-government.

8. Composite states and state unions. Historical forms of federal states. Causes for the formation and development of federalism in the world. Basic constitutional and legal characteristics of a federal state – USA, Canada, Switzerland, Russia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Basic characteristics of the historical model of confederation. Contemporary forms of state alliances.  The European Union – relations among states and basic institutions. European Council, Council of Ministers, European Commission, European Parliament, European Court and the Court of Auditors. Constitutional Convention and the Constitution of the European Union.

9. Constitutional and legal regulation of international relations. Relation of internal law towards the rules of international law – monistic and dualistic concepts. International relations according to the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia. Association of the Republic of Croatia into alliances with other states.

2. FAMILY LAW

Course description

The content of the course in family law comprises family law institutes, family law aspects of protection from violence in the family and legal regulation of same sex partnerships.

The course includes:
-	the concept and characteristics of family law
-	family law relations
-	the place of family law in the legal system 
-	matrimonial law (concept, characteristics, development)
-	legal regulation of unmarried couples
-	legal regulation of same sex partnership
-	relations between parents and children
-	determination and denial of the child’s origin
-	legal regulation of medically supported conception
-	rights of the child
      -    parental care
-	adoption
      -     guardianship
-	maintenance
-	property relations among family members
-	family law regulation of the protection from violence in the family
-	application of the principle of non-discrimination in family relations
-	international instruments relevant for family law
-	comparative study of family institutes

3. LEGAL INFORMATICS

Course description

     Information technology and social changes. Origin, development and role of information technology in modern society. Different normative regulation of the physical and virtual world. Globalization and necessity of international legal harmonization and cooperation. Concept and origin of informatics. Areas of application. Information science. Introduction to information theory. Legal electronic sources of data in the European Union and the Republic of Croatia. Concept, development, characteristics and kinds of computer networks. Significance of normative regulation of relations emerging from the development and application of information technology. Interaction of law and informatics. Concept and scope of information law. Origin, development and forms of electronic business (e-Business). Advanced technology and personal rights – the existing approaches and concepts of legal protection of data. Privacy of information and communication in cybernetic space. Information technology and intellectual property. Safety risks and protection from abuse. 

4th SEMESTER

1. EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW

Course description

Methodology of studying European Community law
-	scientific methods
-	survey of legal sources
-	methods of analyzing decisions of the European Court and the Court of First Instance 
-	methods of analyzing decisions of national courts

Definition of fundamental concepts and legal problems of EC law

History and theories of European integration - review
-	functionalism, neo-functionalism, realism
-	development from the European Community to the European Union
-	Convention on the future of Europe and the Constitutional Treaty

Foundations of the EC “economic constitution” – freedoms of internal market 
-	specifically: “functional overflowing” – economic and personal rights and freedoms
 
Sources of EC law
-	primary sources
-	secondary sources
-	fundamental principles of EC law
-	international agreements concluded by the EC/EU

European Community institutions
-	European Parliament, European Commission, European Council, European Courts

Regulatory process – checks and balance (horizontal and vertical)
-	EC inter-institutional relations
-	relations between EC institutions and Member States
-	role of national parliaments

EC law and national law
-	Germany; England and Wales; Ireland; other Member States
 
Effects of EC law on internal law of Member States
-	EC law and national constitutional law
-	principles of superiority and direct effect
-	effect of directives in national law

Proceedings before the European Court and the Court of First Instance
-	Art. 234
-	Art. 226-228 and Art. 230-2

European citizenship
-	the content of European citizenship according to the Draft Constitutional Treaty

Protection of fundamental rights in the European Union
-	evolution of court practice of the European Court
-	EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Draft Constitutional Treaty
-	Relation between EU law and other sources of fundamental rights

Relations between the EU and third countries
-	EU authority to regulate relations with third countries according to the Treaty of Nice and the Constitutional Treaty
-	conclusion, effects and interpretation of EU treaties with third countries in EU law
-	specifically: agreements on association – effects and interpretation
 
Association of Croatia with the EU and the Agreement on Stabilization and Association 
-	experience with the enlargement of the EU in 2004
-	the process of  stabilization and association (ASA – interpretation of the Agreement, implementation and application of the Agreement, common institutions, effects on Croatian political institutions and the legal system
-	negotiations for the EU membership

Recapitulation and preparation for examination
-	case study                                                     

 2. CRIMINAL LAW

Course description
 
     General part

Introductory part. Concept, subject-matter and purpose of criminal law. Relation of criminal law towards other branches of law. Criminal law science and its relation towards other sciences on criminality. History of criminal law and criminal law science, particularly presentation of criminal law schools and history of Croatian criminal law and criminal law science. Relation among penal, disciplinary and misdemeanour law.

Criminal legislation. Principal and subsidiary criminal legislation. The principle of legality. Interpretation of criminal legislation. Application of Croatian criminal legislation. Exemption and non-applicability of Croatian criminal legislation.

Criminal offence. The concept of a criminal offence and its elements. Criminal act (actus reus). The  problem of omission and causation. Unlawfulness and grounds for exemption from criminal liability (necessary defence, extreme necessity, etc.). Guilt and its elements (mental capacity, intention or negligence and awareness of unlawfulness). Fallacies in criminal law.

Prerequisites for sanctions.

Stages of a criminal offence. Preparatory activities. Attempt and voluntary withdrawal from attempt. Complete criminal offence.

Parties to a crime: The notion of a party to a crime and the Croatian Criminal Code regulation. Commission. Incitement. Assistance. Other matters concerning parties to a crime (the principle of independence of guilt of individual parties to a crime, necessity).

Concurrence. 

Criminal liability of legal persons.

Brief introduction to international criminal law.       

     Criminal law sanctions

The system of sanctions in Croatian criminal law.

Punishment. Theories of the purpose of punishment. Punishment in Croatian criminal law. Execution of punishment.

Cautionary measures (court caution and suspended sentence).

Determination of sentence. The concept and meaning of determination of sentence. Grounds for determining sentence. Circumstances important for determining sentence (aggravating and extenuating circumstances). Mitigation of sentence and acquittal. Determination of sentence for criminal offences in concurrence and to a convicted person.

Security measures. The concept of security measures and their distinction in relation to punishment. Individual security measures.

Special criminal law measures. Dispossession of property profit. Public announcement of sentence. Legal consequences of conviction.

Rehabilitation.

Amnesty and pardon.

     Special part

Criminal offences against the person. 
Criminal offences against human rights and freedoms.
Criminal offences against values protected by international law.
Criminal offences against freedom of gender and sexual morality.
Criminal offences against. honour and reputation.
Criminal offences against marriage, family and youth.
Criminal offences against property.  
Criminal offences against human health.
Criminal offences against the environment.
Criminal offences against general security of people and property and traffic safety.
Criminal offences against the security of monetary transfers and business transactions.
Criminal offences against judiciary.
Criminal offences against validity of documents.
Criminal offences against public order.
Criminal offences against public duty.

3. ECONOMIC POLICY

Course description

     Economic science and economic policy. Doctrines of economic policy. Elements of economic policy as an action: agents (domestic and foreign, direct and indirect), aims (general and economic-political), instruments (monetary, fiscal, foreign currency, direct control and regulation, systemic reforms), environment (physical, geopolitical, socio-political).

     Economic policy and production factors: population, natural resources, capital, technical knowledge, socio-economic system. Economic policy in the process of distribution and exchange: market and prices, redistribution through fiscal policy. Gross domestic product and its utilization: economic policy according to personal expenditure, public expenditure and investments. Policy of economic and financial relations abroad. Policy of stimulating economic development, development strategies, structural and regional policy.

     Economic policy in the Republic of Croatia: reconstruction policy, revitalization of economic activity and acceleration of growth, stabilization policy, currency policy, demographic policy and employment policy, public sector, public debt and tax policy, transition and privatization, globalization and accession to the European Union.    

LEGAL ENGLIESH  III & IV

Course description 

Legal topics: Crime; Death and the Law; The Death Penalty; Marriage; Divorce; Wills and Inheritance; The Legal Character of International Law; The Charter of the United Nations; The European Court of Justice; Conflict of Laws; Types of English Civil Law; Contract; Negligence; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (From the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia); Forms of Business Organization in the United States; Judicial Control of Public Authorities; Police Powers in Great Britain; The Rise of the Lawyer’s Role in the Modern World.

Language study: reading and understanding various legal texts; oral and written analysis of different genres of legal texts; legal terminology; note-taking; writing letters, essays, summaries; filling forms; moot court; legal translation; complex grammatical structures (complex sentences, discourse analysis, sequence of tenses, direct and indirect speech).

LEGAL GERMAN  III & IV   
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Course description

Legal topics: Einführung ins bürgerliche Recht; Rechtsgeschäfte; Vertragliche Schuldverhältnisse I; Schuldverhältnisse II; Gesetzliche Schuldverhältnisse; Familienrecht; Erbrecht; Europarecht I; Europarecht II; Europarecht III; Handelsrecht; Arbeitsrecht.    
Language study: Verbalvalenz und Satzmodelle; Fragesätze; indirekte Rede; Uneingeleitete Konditionalsätze; Irreale Konditionalsätze; indirekte Rede: Wiedergabe der Gegenwart und der Vergangenheit; Feste Wortverbindungen; indirekte Aufforderung; Mehrgliedrige Konjunktionen; Textorganisatoren; Abkürzungen; Relativsätze; Adversativsätze; Gebot- und Verbotsätze; Gerundiv als Sonderform der Attributivgruppe; Restriktivsätze; Doppelkonjunktion.  

5th  SEMESTER 

1. CIVIL LAW  I – General Part, The Law of Oligations                                                         

Course description

            General part
      -     the concept and principles of  civil law, the system of civil law
-	sources of civil law
-     influence of European Union law on Croatian civil law
-	civil law relations
-	civil rights in subjective sense
-	subjects of civil law 
-	objects of civil law – thing, money, act, property
-	legal acts (concept, categories, content)
-	basic types of contracts
-	forms of declaration of will
-	forms of legal acts
-	validity and invalidity of legal acts
-	limitation period
-	acquisition and termination of rights     

The law of obligations

      -     introduction, concept, kinds of obligations
-	concept and formation of contracts, classification and types of contract
-	general characteristics of sales contract, exchange contract, donation contract, loan contract
-	effects of contract, voidance of the debtor’s legal acts
-	instruments for reinforcement of civil liability relations
              -- liability for material and legal defaults, excessive damage
              -- security deposit, retention, guarantee, penalty charges
-	change of the subjects in obligation
-	change of the content of obligation
-	termination of obligation
-	liability for damage 
      -    kinds of liability for damage
-- fault and strict liability
                   --  extra-contractual, contractual and pre-contractual liability (culpa in  
      contrahendo)
                   --  joint and several liability, other forms of liability
      -    damages
               -- natural restitution, compensation
               -- just satisfaction
-	prevention from the danger of damage
-	unlawful enrichment, negotiorum gestio, securities

General part of the course comprises basic types of contracts necessary for understanding the institutes of other parts of civil law, while other specific types of contract would be examined in detail within the course “Civil law – contractual obligations”.

2. CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
Course description

The concept of the criminal process and the concept of criminal procedure. 

International criminal procedure. European criminal procedure.
                                                    
Sources of criminal procedure. 

Principles of criminal procedure relating to instituting and initiating criminal proceedings, conducting of criminal proceedings and organization of criminal courts. The principle of a “fair trial” in criminal matters as a basic principle.

Historical types of the criminal process. Forms and stages of the criminal process in the Republic of Croatia. 

Basic subjects of the criminal process and their legal representatives. Police and their role in the criminal process. The victim of crime as the injured party in the criminal process.

Procedural acts: kinds, terms, registration, sanctions for procedural errors and incomplete acts. Judicial decisions in the criminal process.

Facts and their establishment in the criminal process.

Course of the regular criminal process.

Summary proceedings. Proceedings against minors. Organized crime proceedings. Criminal proceedings against legal persons: effectiveness of criminal persecution of legal persons and the institution of proceedings, court jurisdiction, representative of the accused legal person, precautionary measures against the legal person, accusation, main hearing, judgment.

Special proceedings. 

3. FINANCIAL LAW AND FINANCIAL SCIENCE

Course description

     General part
     Introduction. Subject-matter of financial science. The term and development of financial  science. Financial law. Development of public revenue and expenses. Subject-matter of contemporary financial science.
     Public revenue
     Introduction. Distribution of public revenue. The concept of tax. Justification of tax collection. Distribution of taxes. Tax terminology. Taxpayer. Taxable capacity. Tax base. Tax rates. Tax rates in practice. Marginal rate of tax. Marginal tax burden. Principles of taxation. Aims of taxation. Tax resistance. Tax avoidance. Measures against tax avoidance. Tax shifting. Effects of taxation. Effects of inflation on taxation. Tax technique. Protection of taxpayers’ rights. Tax administration. Taxation in accordance with the principle of the rule of law. Tax systems of modern states. Common issues of income and profit taxation. Income tax. Profit tax. Social security contribution. Turnover tax. State monopoly. Property taxes. Multi-stage taxation and its kinds. Customs duties. Tax systems of developing countries. No tax country. Contributions. Charges. Other sources of public revenue.           
     Public loans
     Introduction. Development of public loans. Advantages and disadvantages of public loans. Distribution of public loans. Principles of state debt. Justification of public loan. Limits of state debt. Public debt repayment. State bankruptcy. Consolidation and conversion of public loans.
     Financial equalization 
     Introduction. Reasons for establishing decentralized levels of government. Basic characteristics of fiscally centralized and decentralized systems. Principles of fiscal decentralization. Financial equalization. Resources of financing public needs of units of decentralized levels of government. Inter-budgetary transfers. User charge. Debts of units of decentralized levels of government.
     Public expenses
     Public goods. Public expenses. Reasons for increase of public expenses. Fictional and real increase of public expenses. Structure of public expenses. Distribution of public expenses. Effectiveness of public expenses. State budget.
     Effects of fiscal instruments
     Introduction. Aims of fiscal policy. Measures of fiscal policy. Effects of fiscal policy on economic growth. Effects of fiscal policy on employment and level of prices. Effects of fiscal policy on redistribution of income and property. Other effects of the application of instruments of fiscal policy. 
     Banks         
     Introduction. Development of banks. Kinds of banks. Basic principles of bank transactions. Banking operations.    
     Basics of EU public finance
     EU budget. Harmonization of taxation. Public debt management and budget deficit in the EU.

     Croatian fiscal system

     Direct taxes
     Taxation of income. Taxation of profit. Taxation of inheritance and gifts. Vehicle tax. Vessel tax. Game machine tax. Summer cottage tax. Tax on idle land. Tax on idle entrepreneurial immovable property. Tax on vacant plots. Corporate tax. Tax on use of public property. Insurance premium tax.
     Indirect taxes
     Value added tax. Immovable property sales tax. Special taxes on passenger cars, other motor vehicles, vessels and aircraft. Special tax on coffee. Special tax on non-alcoholic beverages. Special tax on beer. Special tax on alcohol. Special tax on tobacco products.  Special tax on oil derivatives. Special tax on luxury products. Excise tax. 
     Customs/Tariff system
     Legal basis. Customs payer. Customs officer. Customs value of goods. Tariff rate. Customs control and customs inspection. Origin of goods. Customs procedure. Free zone.
     Tax procedure
     Legal basis. Concept and content. Principles of tax procedure. Protection of human rights and freedoms in tax procedure. Participants in tax-law procedure. Competence of tax bodies. Tax assessment. Inspection control. Enforcement procedure in tax law. Legal means.
     
      Tax administration
      
      Tax consultancy

     Contributions (instrument of financing the system of social security)
     Kinds of obligatory contributions. Contributors. Basis for calculation of contributions for obligatory insurance. Contribution rates for obligatory insurance. Control of account and collection of contributions. Voluntary insurance contributions.
     Charges
     Administrative charges and intellectual property charges. Court charges. Notaries public fees. Administrative charges collected by the Commission for Securities of the Republic of Croatia. Residence charges.  
     Public debt
     Borrowing and guarantees of the Republic of Croatia. Local and regional self-government units borrowing. Guarantees.
     Public expenses
     Starting points of the new concept of financing public needs in the Republic of Croatia. Scope and structure of public financing in the Republic of Croatia. Budgetary process. Funding of public needs. Public enterprises. 
     Banking system 
Concept and legal basis. Croatian National Bank. Banks. Savings and loan cooperatives. 

6th SEMESTER

1. CIVIL LAW II – Property Law, Inheritance Law

Course description

      Property law
-	introduction to property law, property law relations
-	possession
-	land registers
-    the right of ownership  
           -- acquisition of the right of ownership 
           -- protection of the right of ownership 
           -- termination of the right of ownership 
-	participation of more persons in the right of ownership 
-	apartment ownership 
-	neighbourly relations and the right of ownership
-	servitudes
-	ownership burden 
-	building right
-	mortgage
   
      Inheritance law
-	introduction to inheritance law
-	principles 
-	probate proceedings
-	inheritance
-	succession, right of succession, acquisition and waiver
-	intestate succession
-	testamentary succession
-	compulsory succession
-	legal position of the heir
-	legacy, right of separation from inheritance
-	contract on assignment and distribution, contracts on maintenance and contract on disposal of inheritance
-	inheritance procedure

2. INTERNATIONAL LAW

Course description

Introductory and general questions: Definition and concept of international law. Divisions of international law. Legal nature of international law. Relation between international and internal law. History. Development of science.

Sources of international law: Customary law. Contract law. Legal principles recognized by civilized nations. Subsidiary means: court decisions and doctrine. Other possible sources. Codification.

Subjects of international law: General considerations. State: origin and termination, recognition of the state and government, fundamental rights of states, composite states. Relations of dependence. Insurgents and liberation movements. Territories with special position. Permanent neutrality. 

Man (individual) in international law: Citizens and foreigners. International law protection of man. Minorities. Criminal liability of individuals.
                                                      
Objects of international law: State territory. Borders. International rivers. The sea, seabed and subsoil. Air space. Space. Gaining territory. Succession of states. International usufructs.

Organs of international relations: General survey. Head of the state, prime minister, government, minister of foreign affairs. Diplomatic representatives. Consuls. International staff.

Legal facts of international law: International legal matters in general. Unilateral legal matters. International treaties: concept and kinds, formation, termination, functioning. International delicts.

International organizations: General survey. United Nations: law and aims, members, organs, position of non-member states. Specialized institutions of the United Nations. Regional organizations. European integration: European Union, Council of Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Peaceful settlement of disputes and maintenance of peace: General problems. Mediation. Investigation. Reconciliation. Settlement. Arbitration. International court. Role of the United Nations. Disarmament. Self-reliance.

The law of war: The concept of war. Sources of the law of war. Beginning and end. Battle-field. Persons in war. Restrictions on warring, including protection of persons. War occupation. Neutrality. Economic war on the sea. Substantive and procedural law of the spoils of war. 

 
3. ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE

Course description

Fundamental conceptual questions of public administration
Significance of public administration in contemporary society. The definition of public administration. Differentiation between the public and private sector. Administration as organization and as function. Characteristics of administrative organization. Characteristics of management in the public sphere. Complexity of public administration. Territorial, functional and associative administrative systems. Phases in the development of administration. The territorial administrative system: state administration and local self-government. Public services.

Development of studying administration: from administrative doctrine towards administrative science 
Development of studying state and public administration. Cameralism and administrative doctrine in public administration. Theoretical foundations of studying public administration. Legal approach. Multi-disciplinary and integrative approach. The place of administrative science in the system of science, particularly among social sciences.  Subject-matter, materials, methods and sources of administrative science. Methodological and substantive complexity of administrative science as a result of complexity of modern public administration. Practical use of knowledge of public administration.

Public administration in society
Connection between the administrative development and the development of society. Effects of contemporary development on public administration: globalization, Euro-integration, transition, urbanization, regionalization. Development of administration: tendencies of growth, differentiation, professionalization, limitation of coercion and informatization. Administration as a factor of social development. Growth of administrative complexity: from state administration towards the public sector. Narrowing of the public sector and widening of private initiative in contemporary society. Problems of privatization of parts of public administration. Market, public administration and the third sector. The role of citizens in relation to administration (subaltern, source of legitimate power, user, cooperator, consumer of public services). 

Administration and the political system
Influence of the development of political systems on the development and position of state and pubic administration. Position of public administration in contemporary political systems (parliamentary, presidential, assembly). Democratic and non-democratic (bureaucratic) political systems and public administration. Political supervision of administration. Change of the role of public administration: from executors of political decisions to participation in creation of public policies. Values in public administration: legal, political, social and economic values. Changes of value orientations and the development of administration.

Administrative organization
Organization. Brief presentation of the development of the organization theory. The place of organization in the development of cooperative systems. Fundamental organizational variables: structure, technology, environment, size. Contradictions in organizational structure. 
Application of organizational knowledge: practical issues of the process of organization. 
Organizational therapeutics. Organizational development. Administrative review as a method of advancement of work and organization. Organizational culture and its changes. From hierarchy to network structure.

Human resource management in public administration
Administrative personnel. The concept and basic determinants of human resource management in public administration. Changes of the role of employees: holders of power and privileges, civil servants, public managers. Civil servants law and the civil servants system. European standards in respect of civil servants legislation and the civil servants system. The  classification system in public administration. Promotion and career. Education for public administration, professional training and improvement. The payment system and the possibilities of remuneration of civil servants. Personnel policy. Depolitization of public administration. Civil service ethics, conflict of interests and corruption in public administration. The role of civil servants: producer, integrator, entrepreneur and administrator. Recruitment and development of leading personnel. 

Administrative methods and public management
Administrative circle from planning to control. Strategic and tactical planning. Administrative programmes. The policy approach of contemporary public administration: analysis, preparation and realization of public policies (educational, social, health, regional, etc.). Leadership in administration: from political leadership towards public management. Communication in administration. Information technology, e-government and 
e-administration. Records management. Standardization: administrative procedures. Control in administration. Erroneousness, legality and responsibility of public administration. Changes in budgetary funding: from financing administrative organizations towards financing of public programmes. Introduction of economic and market principles in administration. Quality of public services.

State administration in Croatia
The influence of the Parliament (Sabor) on administration. Powers of the President of the Republic relating to state administration. The Government as a political and administrative leaders of state administration. Centre of government as the coordinative centre of state administration. Central state administration. Decontrated state administration. Relations in the system of state administration. Classification of state affairs. Scope and competence. State administrative affairs and ways of their performance. Horizontal and vertical coordination in the system of state administration. Civil servants, political functions and employees. Relation of civil servants towards citizens. Supervision of state administration (political supervision, ombudsman, control and inspection, judicial supervision).

Local self-government and decentralization in Croatia
Conceptual questions. Kinds of decentralization. Territorial organization of local self-government. Regionalization and multi-level governance. Local affairs. Local bodies and their relations. Supervision of local self-government. Protection of local self-government. The decentralization process in Croatia.

Public services in Croatia
Functional and organizational determination of public service. Kinds of public services. 
Regulation of public services in the EU. Public institution as a basic form of performing 
public services. Other forms of carrying out public services (companies, public agencies, concessionaries, local units’ own facilities, public-private partnership). Independent regulative  bodies. Liberalization of public services. 

Administrative reforms and modernization of Croatian public administration
Changes of contemporary administrative doctrines: from the new public management to the good governance. The concept and types of administrative reforms. Traditional Weberian model of administration, the rule of law and contemporary administrative reforms. Managerial reforms and their effects. Functional review as the most frequent type of administrative reform in transitional countries. Principles, tendencies and measures of modernization of Croatian public administration.

Europeization of national public administrations
European administrative traditions. Institutions of the EU, the European Commission and European administration. The role of national administration in the administrative apparatus of the EU: enforcement of EU law, execution of EU policies and participation in the process of European decision-making. The change of the role of national administration due to European integration. Structuring of the European Administrative Space (EAS). European administrative standards. Administrative consequences of association with the EU and accession to the EAS – necessary administrative reforms.

7th SEMESTER

1. ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

Course description

General issues of administrative law
The concept of administration and its legal expression (classifying administration under law, legal norm and administrative legal relations, subjective rights, legal status, objective rights, reflex of objective rights. Legal determination of the state administrative organ, its basic characteristics and characteristics of the so-called organic exponent. Legal status of persons performing administrative activities (legal persons with public authority, concessionary public service). Administrative law (origins of administrative law, administrative law in Croatia, creation of European administrative law, characteristics of administrative law, relationship towards other branches of law, administrative law as a scientific and educational discipline). Legal sources of administrative law (specifically: legal regime of by-laws, legal nature of internal administrative acts). The principle of constitutionality of administration (equal treatment and prohibition of discrimination, legal security, proportionality, judicial protection). The principle of legality of administration (compliance with the Constitution, laws, international agreements, by-laws and judicature of the Constitutional Court, domestic and international courts). Discretionary (free) evaluation. Modification of the principle of legality in extraordinary circumstances. Legal relations of administrative and judicial powers. Control over the activities of administration (performed by representative bodies, courts, state attorney, ombudsman, specialized bodies).
Relations between administration and natural and legal persons
Legal status of natural and legal persons in relation to administration. The right of citizens to access to administrative data. Functioning of administration in specific issues of personal status of citizens: Croatian citizenship, personal name, domicile and residence, identity of the person and personal documents: identity card, passport, identification number, citizens’ records). Legal status of foreigners in relation to administration. Forms of cooperation of administration with natural and legal persons. Administrative control over activities of natural and legal persons. Responsibility of the state, units of local self-government and other bodies of public law and their employees for damage incurred to natural and legal persons in performing authoritative activities.

Forms of administrative functioning 
Aspects of various forms of administrative functioning. General and individual administrative functioning. Abstract and concrete administrative activities. Legal forms of planning (economic, spatial, building and similar). Inactivity of administration as a form of functioning. Legal regime of administrative by-laws: concept, characteristics, kinds, legal effects, additions to administrative by-laws, finality, validity, enforceability). Difference between administrative by-laws and other by-laws. The theory of invalidity of administrative by-laws (void and voidable) and their application. Administrative contract (concept, kinds, subjects, content, legal effects). Certificates (attestations and similar) – content and legal characteristics. Other individual by-laws (recording, verification, information, interpretation and reference). Administrative management by-laws. Legal nature of order. Material actions (acts, operations). Acts of punishment.

Administrative procedures
Relation between general and special administrative procedures. General administrative procedure. Legal regulation of administrative procedure. Principles of administrative procedure. Competence (real and territorial, collegiate and executive bodies, persons conducting proceedings). Parties (natural and legal persons, collectives) and their representatives (legal, temporary, authorized agents, expert assistants). Instituting and conducting proceedings (investigative and summary proceedings). Argumentation and evidence. Costs of proceedings. Decisions in proceedings (ruling and conclusion). Legal remedies: judicial and extra-judicial. Enforcement of administrative decisions (enforcement documents, kinds of enforcement, competence, instituting and conducting administrative enforcement proceedings, legal remedies). Characteristics of special administrative procedures (customs, tax, inspection, etc.). Procedure of administrative bodies (police, inspection and others) in minor offences (competence, powers, temporary restriction of personal rights, instituting proceedings in competent courts, pronouncing minor offence orders, legal remedies, enforcement).

Administrative legal relations of property nature
The concept of common property and public property. Kinds of public property – their origin and termination. Administrative legal regime of management and use of common and public property. Authoritative intervention of administration in restriction or deprivation of property (dispossession, land consolidation, consolidation of holdings, requisition, legal servitude, interventions similar to dispossession). Special administrative control over dangerous objects and objects of special importance (e.g. weapons, explosives, drugs, poisons, cultural 
monuments, natural rarities). Restrictions of rights and compensation due to special burdens (construction and reconstruction, building and protection from noise).
Judicial control over administrative activities
General theory of administrative court control over administrative by-laws. Comparative survey of the system of judicial control over administration. Constitutional basis of judicial               
control over administration in Croatia. Administrative disputes in domestic law (kinds, object, competence, parties in dispute, instituting and conducting proceedings, decisions, legal remedies: judicial and extra-judicial, binding court decisions). Special judicial protection of natural and legal persons (violation of constitutional rights by administrative by-laws and activities, protection of data, etc.). Constitutional court protection of natural and legal persons injured by administrative activities. Administrative court and constitutional court control over administrative by-laws. Court control over administrative activities in court proceedings (criminal, minor offences, civil, e.g. labour law, liability for damage, enforcement).

 2. COMMERCIAL LAW

Course description

     Commercial law consists of: (a) general part, (b) commercial contract law – general and special part, and (c) securities law.
     General part of commercial law comprises the concept and subject-matter of commercial law; differentiation between commercial law and other branches of law; history of commercial law; international commercial law and in this respect specifically the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods of 1980, UNDROIT principles of international commercial contract law and the Principles of European contract law – Lando’s principles.
     Commercial contract law  – general part comprises the concept of commercial contract; formation of commercial contracts particularly by general terms of business; special characteristics of formation of commercial contracts in relation to civil law contracts; interpretation of commercial contracts; performance of commercial contracts; surety of performance of commercial contracts; liability for non-compliance and consequences of failure to perform; inability to perform; breach or modification of commercial contracts due to the change of circumstances.  
     Commercial contract law – special part comprises the sale of goods contract; building contract; storage contract; commission contract; commercial agency contract; brokerage contract; shipping contract; commercial surety contract; contracts in tourism (allotment contract, tourist agency contract); assignation in commercial business; licence contract;  documentary letter of credit; bank guarantee. Commercial contract law  – special part comprises autonomous commercial law contracts (engineering, leasing, franchising, factoring, management contract).
     Securities law examines the concept, development and classification of securities. It comprises bills of exchange, cheques, promissory notes, derivatives and securities market (control institutions and securities records). Sources of securities law are examined as well as securities transactions and the stock exchange.

3. CIVIL PROCEDURE

Course description

1.	Civil litigation procedure: basics of civil litigation; fundamental principles of civil litigation; subjects of civil litigation; jurisdiction of courts; parties and their representatives; actions of subjects in civil litigation; civil litigation actions of the court and parties; claim; the defendant in civil action; discontinuation of civil action and completion of action. Costs of proceedings; judicial settlement; judicial decisions (ruling and judgment); validity; legal remedies (judicial and extra-judicial); special procedure in family, labour, possession, commercial and small value disputes; payment order.
2.	Arbitration and mediation procedures: basics.
3.	Extra-judicial procedure: basics.
4.	Enforcement law: basics.
5.	Bankruptcy law: basics.

8th SEMESTER

1. COMPANY LAW

Course description

     The concept and subject-matter of company law. Differentiation and relation between company law and other branches of law. European company law. The concept of the company and the merchant. Enterprise. Firm. Business object; Headquarters; Branch offices; Representation of companies; Role, organization and activity of the court registry.
     Partnership: concept, rights and obligations of partners, business management, representation, liability for obligations, termination.
     Cooperative: concept, rights and obligations of members, business management, representation, liability for obligations, termination.
     General partnership: concept, relation towards partnership, rights and obligations of members, business management, representation, liability for obligations, exclusion and withdrawal of members, termination.
     Limited partnership: concept, relation towards general partnership and partnership, rights and obligations of members, business management, representation, liability for obligations, termination of membership, termination of the company.
     Silent company: concept, legal relations in the company, termination.
     Public limited company: concept, historical development, economic significance, legal characteristics, shares, capital stock, establishment, statute, membership rights and membership obligations of shareholders, business management, representation, liability for obligations, bodies of the company (management, supervisory board, general assembly), statute amendment, stock capital increase, stock capital decrease, status change, termination of the company.
     Private limited company: concept, establishment, social agreement, rights and obligations of members, business management, representation, liability for obligations, bodies of the company  (management, supervisory board, general assembly), social agreement amendment, increase of stock capital, decrease of stock capital, status changes, termination of the company.
     Economic interest grouping: concept, membership, business management, representation, termination.

2. LABOUR LAW AND SOCIAL SECURITY LAW
     
Course description

Labour law:

Subject-matter of labour law; science, philosophy, labour and labour law policy; the concept of labour and the system of labour law; labour law and related disciplines; history of labour law; sources of labour law; international and European labour law; labour law and fundamental human rights.

Theoretical basis of labour relations: concept and types of labour relations; employment procedure and termination of labour relations; enforcement of rights and obligations from individual labour relations; organization of workers and employers; protection of the right to organize; collective bargaining and collective agreement; worker participation in decision-making; enforcement of rights and obligations from collective labour relations; labour relations and bankruptcy; employment and work of foreigners; holidays, memorial days, days off; specific labour relations of civil servants and public employees.

Safety at work: concept and methods of safety at work; general principles of safety at work;  regulation and implementation of safety at work; protection of special categories of workers; obligations of employers and their agents in implementation of safety at work; the role of workers in implementation of safety ruses.

Employment agency and the rights of the unemployed: concept and policy of employment and unemployment; employment agency; professional education and training; employment agency for special categories of workers; unemployment benefits.

Legislative regulation in the Republic of Croatia and comparative approaches to regulation: regulation of the system of labour relations; labour relations and bankruptcy; regulation and organization of the system of employment agency and unemployment benefits; regulation and organization of the system of employment and work of foreigners; regulation of holidays, memorial days and days off; regulation and organization of the system of safety at work; regulation of the system of labour relations of civil servants and public employees.

Social security law:

Subject-matter of social security law; science, philosophy, policy of social security law; the concept of social security (social insurance, social welfare and protection) and the division and system of social security law; social security law and related disciplines; history of social 
security law; sources of social security law; international and European social security law; social security law and fundamental human rights.

Theoretical basis of social security; old-age insurance as social insurance; insured persons, social risks of old-age insurance; rights and obligations of insured persons and other persons in old-age insurance; legal protection of the rights of insurees, disputes and ways of their solution in old-age insurance; financing, organization and management of old-age insurance; 
health insurance as social insurance; insured persons, social risks in health insurance; rights and obligations of insured persons and other persons in health insurance; legal protection of  rights, disputes and ways of their solution in health insurance; financing, organization and management of health insurance; health protection.

Social welfare: protected persons; social cases; rights and obligations of protected persons; procedure of realization of rights, disputes and their solution; financing, organization, management.

Legal regulation in the Republic of Croatia and some comparative approaches: regulation and organization of the system of old-age, invalidity and family benefits; regulation and organization of the system of health insurance; regulation and organization of the system of social welfare; regulation and organization of the system of children’s allowance.

3. PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

Course description

1.1.	General part
Private law situations with an international element. Concept, term and subject-matter of private international law. Historical development of private international law. Sources of private international law – Croatian and European. Conflict of laws method. Conflict of laws
rule – concept, structure and categories. The most important connecting factors. Qualification. Renvoi. Fraudulent avoidance of law. Preliminary topics. Adjustment. Application of foreign law. Influence of legal change on applicable law. Public order – protection of fundamental legal principles of domestic and European law. Rules of direct application. Special substantive rules.

1.2.	Special part
1.2.1. Applicable law
 Legal and business capacity of natural and legal persons. Guardianship. Pronouncement of death of a missing person. Personal name. Ownership and other property rights. Intellectual property. Contractual obligations. Non-contractual obligations. Succession. Form of testament disposals. Marriage. Unmarried couples. Parents and children. Adoption. Maintenance. 

Legitimization. Bill of exchange and cheque. Form of legal acts. Property law and obligations law relations in maritime and air transport. The Hague conventions on applicable law.

1.2.2. International civil procedural law
International jurisdiction. Legal status of foreigners in court proceedings. Evidence. International legal aid. Litispendentia. Res iudicata. Recognition of foreign judicial decisions. Arbitral resolutions of disputes with an international element. International bankruptcy.        

1.3.	EUROPEAN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

1.3.1.	Applicable law
Rome convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations of 1980.

1.3.2.	International civil procedural  law
Council Regulation (EC)  No. 44/2001 on Jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters of 2000; Council Regulation (EC) No. 2201/2003 on jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and in matters of parental responsibility for children of both spouses of 2003, repealing Regulation (EC) No. 1347/2000; Council Regulation (EC) No. 1348/2000 on the service in the Member States of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil or commercial matters of 2000; Council Regulation (EC) No.1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings of 2000; Regulation (EC) No. 805/2004 of the European Parliament and the Council creating a European Enforcement Order for uncontested claims of 2004.

1.3.3.  Harmonization of Croatian private international law with European.    

4. MARITIME AND GENERAL TRANSIT LAW

Basic contents of the subject

Maritime law
INTRODUCTION TO MARITIME LAW: The concept, division and historical development of maritime law. Sources of maritime law. Unification of maritime law. The concept of the ship in maritime law. Elements to individualise the ship. The significance of the national affiliation of the ship.
MARITIME DOMAIN AND PORTS: The concept of maritime domain. Usage and utilisation of the maritime domain. Concessions on maritime domain. Ports and order in ports.
SAFETY OF NAVIGATION: Individual elements of the navigation safety. Determining the ship’s capacity for navigation. Ship’s papers and books. Inspection.
REAL PROPERTY RIGHTS ON SHIPS: Basic proprietary characteristics of the ship. The right of property on the ship. Acquisition and loss of the property right on the ship. Types of liens on the ship. Mortgage on the ship. Privileges on the ship.  
PERSONS IN MARITIME ENTERPRISE: Ship owner. Shipper. The shipper’s liability. General (global) restriction of the shipper’s  liability. Nuclear ship contractor. Legal position and functions of the captain of the ship. Placer of order. Loader. Receiver. Maritime agent. Shipping agent.
MARITIME LAW CONTRACTS IN GENERAL: The contract on building, repair and remodelling of the ship. Contracts on the ship utilisation – general characteristics, systematisation of contracts.
CONTRACT OF THE LEASE OF SHIP: The concept of the contract of the lease of ship. Important characteristics of the contract. Obligations of contractual parties. Responsibilities of contractual parties.
SHIPPING CONTRACTS: Shipping contracts. Sub-shipping contracts. Bill of lading and other shipping papers. Fulfilment of contracts. Cessation of contracts. The shipper’s liability for the loss, lack and damage of goods and for delay. Cost of conveyance.
CONTRACT ON THE TRANSPORT OF PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE BY SEA: The concept of the contract for the transport of passengers. The concept of a passenger. The concept and types of luggage. Rights and obligations of the parties of the contract on the transport of passengers and luggage. The meaning of the ticket. The responsibility of the shipper for the damages incurred by the death or physical injuries of passengers and for the delay in transport.
TOWAGE CONTRACTS: General concepts about towage contracts. Rights and obligation of contractual parties. Towage and rescue.
TRANSPORT WITH MORE THAN ONE SHIPPER: Direct transport in general. Direct transport of goods. Direct transport of passengers and luggage. Multimodal transport.
MARITIME ACCIDENTS: Maritime averages. Common average – the concept and important characteristics. The settlement of common average. Special average. Collision of vessels. The concept of collision. Liability and compensation of damage in case of a collision. Salvage. The concept of salvage. Salvage of persons. Salvage of property. Reward for salvage. Extraction of sunk objects.
NON-CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY OF SHIP OWNERS AND SHIPPERS: Liability for death and physical injuries. Liability for environment pollution. Liability for oil pollution when oil is shipped as cargo. Liability of nuclear ship contractor.
INSURANCE OF CLAIMS AND EXECUTION ON THE SHIP AND CARGO: Means and manners of insurance. Temporary measure of stopping the ship. Execution on the ship.
MARINE INSURANCE: On insurance in general. The subject of marine insurance. Rights and duties of contractual parties. Insured risks. Types of risks. Insurance premium. Insurance money. Concluding insurance agreements. Marine insurance policy. Franchises. Institute clauses. Club (P&I) insurance. Reinsurance. 
MARITIME LAW OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: Sources of the EU maritime law. Main characteristics of legal regulative. Expected trends of further legal regulation of maritime law within the EU. Adjustment of the Croatian maritime legal regulation with the EU law.

General transit law
INTRODUCTION TO RAIL, ROAD, AIR LAW AND THE LAW OF INTERNAL NAVIGATION: The economic significance of road and air law and the internal navigation law. Principles of the transport by road, air and internal waterway. The definition and division of rail, road, air law and internal navigation law.
AGREEMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF CARGO BY RAIL: The definition and basic characteristics of agreements. Legal sources. Persons from agreements. The meaning of bill of lading. Realisation of agreement. Liability of rail carrier for the damage on things and for delay.
AGREEMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE BY RAIL: The definition and basic characteristics of agreements. Legal sources. Persons from agreements. The concept and types of luggage. Liability of the rail carrier for the damage due to death, physical injury or mental anguish of passengers. Liability of the rail carrier for delay or interruption of traffic. Liability for the loss or damage of the luggage.
AGREEMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF GOODS BY ROAD: The definition and basic characteristics of agreements. Legal sources. Persons in the transport of goods by road. Bill of lading. Realisation of agreement. Change of agreement. Liability of the haulier for the damage on things and for delay.
AGREEMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE BY ROAD: The definition and basic characteristics of agreements. Legal sources. Persons from agreements on the transport of passengers by road. The concept and types of luggage. Liability of the haulier for the damage due to death, physical injury or mental anguish of passengers. Liability for the damage of the luggage. Liability for the delay, interruption or failure to carry out the transport.
AGREEMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF GOODS BY AIR: The definition and basic characteristics of agreements. Legal sources. Persons in the agreements. Air waybill. Realisation of agreement. Liability of the air carrier for the damage on things and for delay.
AGREEMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT OF PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE BY AIR: The definition and basic characteristics of agreements. Legal sources. Persons from agreements. The concept and types of luggage. Liability of the air carrier for the damage due to death and physical injury of passengers. Liability for the damage of the luggage. Liability for the delay, failure to carry out transport or the interruption in the transport.
AGREEMENTS ON THE TRANSPORT BY INTERNAL WATERS: Types of agreements. The definitions of individual agreements. Legal sources. Agreements on the transport of goods by internal waters. Rights and duties of contractual parties. Liability of the carrier for the damage of goods and for delay. Agreements on the transport of passengers and luggage. Legal sources. Rights and duties of contractual parties. Liability of the carrier for the damage due to death and physical injuries of passengers. Liability of the carrier for the luggage. Liability for the delay in transportation. Definitions and general concepts of individual agreements.

9th and 10th SEMESTER

CIVIL LEGAL COURSE:

1. LAND-REGISTRY LAW

Basic contents of the subject

1.	Land-Registry Law: the concept, historical development, its place in the legal system, legal nature, legal sources 
-	Land register as a form of register of real estate and the property rights on them
-	Land register as the system of publishing the rights on property
-	Comparative-legal survey of the system of publishing the rights on property
2.	Land register: the concept and characteristics
3.	Cadastral register: the concept, characteristics and relation to the land register
4.	Land registry structure
5.	Principles of land-registry law
6.	Land-registry entries: the concept, subject, presumptions, categories
7.	Registration of deeds: general and special presumptions
8.	Advance registration: presumptions, justification
9.	Registration of pe5rsonal relations, registration of legal facts in the Law on Land Register
10.	Registration of legal facts in other laws
11.	Legal effects of the registration, protection of registered rights
12.	Priority in registration
13.	Land-registry procedure: procedure in land-registry matters
14.	Special kinds of procedures
15.	Computerisation of land registers

2. COPYRIGHT 

Basic contents of the subject

-	Copyright, its concept, historical development, place in the legal system, legal nature
-	Sources of copyright
-	The influence of the EU law on Croatian copyright 
-	The object of copyright
-	The author and other copyright owners
-	The content of copyright
-	Disposal of copyright inter vivos and mortis causa 
-	Related rights: right of the artist performer, rights of phonogram makers, right of movie producers (video recording maker), right of organisations for radio-diffusion, right of database makers, right of publishers
-	Legal protection of copyright and related rights
-	Realisation of copyright and related rights; individual and collective realisation
-	Content-related and temporal limitations of copyright and related rights
-	Copyright in the European Union (acquis communautaire)
-	Conventional copyright 
-	Unification of copyright
-	The influence of globalization on copyright order

3. CIVIL LAW – CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS

Basic contents of the subject

-	Contracts for the transfer of things and rights
-	buying and selling
-	exchange
-	gifts
-	Contracts for the usage of things
-	lease
-	rent
-	credit
-	loan
-	Contracts for services
-	contract for supply of a service
-	building contract
-	contract of deposit
-	contract of bidding
-	power of attorney
-	insurance contract
-	Partnership
-	Consumer contract law
-	concluding consumer contracts outside business premises of the seller
-	concluding distance consumer contracts
-	unfair stipulations in consumer contracts
-	contracts for providing public services to consumers
-	consumer loan contracts
-	contract for the right on time-share

4. NOTARIAL LAW

Basic contents of the subject

The subject deals with the historical development of the institution of the office of notary public, system of the office of notary public in the world (comparative survey), foundations of the notarial organisational and functional law, notarial acts and their effects.

5. BASIC EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW

Basic contents of the subject

1.	Sources and principles of European private law
2.	Methods of adjusting laws of the European Union member states
3.	The introduction to the private law of member states adjusted through the measures of the EU institutions
4.	The influence of the European Union law on private legal orders of the member states – obligatory legal aspects of the European law – Principles of European contract law (so called Land principles), Principles of international commercial agreements (so called UNIDROIT principles), Joint rules of European private law (so called Trento group principles), Principles of European compensatory law (so called Tilburg-Vienna group principles)
4.1.	Contract law
-	protection of consumers
-	responsibility for material lack of fulfilment
-	commercial representative
-	delay in payment
-	special contracts – contract for the organisation of a tourist trip, contract of consumer credit, time-share contract
-	obligatory legal aspect of electronic trade
4.2.	Rights on compensation – Guideline 1999/34/EU on the responsibility of manufacturer for faulty products, compensatory legal aspects of the Guideline 2000/31/EU on electronic trade and the Guideline 1999/93/EU on electronic signature
5.	Copyright and related rights and personal rights – Guideline 91/250/EU, Guideline 92/100/EEU, Guideline 93/83/EEU, Guideline 93/98/EEU, Guideline 96/9/EU, Guideline 2001/29/EU and Guideline 2001/84/EU.
6.	Aspects of law of real property of the European Union – Guideline 93/7/EEU on the return of cultural goods illegally taken out of the member state territories, and the Regulation 3911/92 on the export of cultural goods.
7.	Law of inheritance within the European Union law
8.	Approximation of family law aspects of the European Union member states
9.	Adjustment of Croatian private law order to European law

6. EXTRAJUDICIAL LAW AND LAW OF DISTRAINT (EXECUTION)

Basic contents of the subject

The subject deals with the subject matter of extra-judicial procedural law in the narrow sense and with the law of distraint (execution). As an introduction to the subjects, those two laws are conceptually determined, as well as their interrelation and their relation to procedural and bankruptcy law. The part on extra-judicial procedural la deals with the basic principles of that law, competence of courts, parties and participants, prejudicial issues, decisions, legal validity and execution, legal remedies, procedural costs and (crucial) special procedures, and the part on law of distraint deals with the basic principles of that law, subjects, bases for deciding on distraint, subject and means of the distraint, deciding and implementing distraints, legal remedies, special distraint procedures, insurance procedures.  

CRIMINAL LEGAL COURSE 

1.	INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

Basic contents of the subject

The concept and sources of international criminal law. Validity of norms of international criminal law. Relation to other branches of law, especially international public law and national criminal law and criminal procedural law.
History of international criminal law. Legal, historical, philosophical and political foundations of international criminal law, co-operation of states in the sphere of prevention of criminal acts and international criminal courts.
Principles of international criminal law.
International crimes. Guilt in international criminal law with special emphasis on command responsibility. Practice of international criminal tribunals. Internationally guaranteed standards of handling procedures and the application of the decisions of the European court of human rights on the procedures before national and international courts. Protection of witnesses and victims.
Subjects of international criminal law. Immunity according to international law.
International criminal court for former Yugoslavia and other ad hoc international tribunals – establishment, constitution, legal stipulations, procedure, execution of judgements and other decisions. Relation between states and ad hoc tribunals. Legal aspects of the relation between the Republic of Croatia and the International criminal court for former Yugoslavia.
The Roman statute of the International criminal court. Structure, material right and procedure before the International criminal court.
Other ad hoc international courts, mixed judicature, other forms of reacting to crimes (investigative committees, activities of the UN, governmental and non-governmental organisations and so on).
Execution of decisions of international criminal courts.
Extradition and other forms of international criminal legal aid.
Practice of Croatian courts in the process against perpetrators of international crimes. Implementation of the laws of international criminal courts in the Croatian legislature.

2.	JUVENILE PENAL LAW

Basic contents of the subject

Juvenile delinquency in contemporary society. The concept of a juvenile in penal law. Responsibility of a juvenile.
Sanctions for juveniles and criteria for the selection of sanctions. Individual categories of reformatory measures. Sentence of juvenile detention home.
Special features of the penal actions against juveniles. Penal action bodies. Decision based on report. Preparatory procedure. Committee session or evidentiary hearing. The Youth Council decisions. Legal remedies.
Younger persons of age. Penal stipulations. Criminal procedural stipulations.
Criminal offences against minors. Criminal offences against marriage, family and youth. Criminal offences against sexual liberty and sexual morality. Other criminal offences against minors (international prostitution, human trade and slavery, infanticide and so on).

3.	CRIMINOLOGY AND VICTIMOLOGY

Basic contents of the subject

Methods in criminology and victimology: experiment, surveys, observation, case studies, self-testimony, research ethics.
Manifestations of delinquency (phenomenology). Classification of delinquency in regards of its special features (time and place of crime, gravity of the act, age of the perpetrator, sex and social status of the perpetrator, characteristics of the victim). Statistic data on the delinquency trends in the Republic of Croatia and comparatively. Statistic data on the sanctions in the Republic of Croatia and comparatively. Presentations of results of victimological research on the experience of victimisation in the Republic of Croatia and comparatively. The problem of the dark crime rate.
Historical development of the criminological thought. Forerunners of criminology (ancient times, Middle Age ad Renaissance). Classical school with special reference to Cesar Beccaria. Bentham’s utilitarianism. Positivistic school of thought. Sociological school of thought. Introduction into contemporary criminological theories on causes of criminal behaviour.
Biological theories. Genetics and delinquency. Studies of twins. Studies of adoption. Influence of biochemical factors. Neuropsychological factors. Good and bad sides of the biological interpretation of the causes of crime.
Psychological theories. Psychoanalytical theory. Theory of frustration. The lack of adaptation theory. Theory of moral development. Theory of connection to the mother. Theory of learning aggressive and violent behaviour. Theory of special personal characteristics. Persons with mental problems and criminal behaviour.
Sociological directions in contemporary criminology. Theory of lawlessness. Theory of limited means. Theory of cultural deviation. Theory of social disorganisation. Theory of differential association. Theory of cultural conflict. Theory of sub-cultures. Theory of social control. Alternative explanations of the causes of criminal behaviour. Theory of labelling. Theory of conflict. Radical theory. New social defence movement.
Victimological theories. Beginnings of victimology. Positivistic victimology. Radical victimology. Critical victimology.
About victims of criminal offences. The definition of a victim. Personal characteristics of victims. Types of victims (cultural, structural, criminological, in regards of behaviour). The relation between the victim and perpetrator. Dynamics of criminal victimisation.
Rights of victims of criminal offences. Right to participate in penal procedure, right on reparation, right on the protection of privacy and security, right on information. The UN declaration of the rights of victims. The Council of Europe documents on the rights of victims. Rights of victims in the EU. Rights of victims before international criminal courts. Rights of victims of criminal offences in the Republic of Croatia.

4.	LAW OF MISDEMEANOR (LAW OF DELICT)

Basic contents of the subject

The concept of a misdemeanor (minor offence) and law of misdemeanor. Difference from other criminal offences. The relation between penal procedure and delictal suit. Comparative legal survey of concepts of misdemeanors and law of misdemeanors. Historical survey of the development of Croatian law of misdemeanor.
Sources of the law of misdemeanor and their validity.
General part of substantive law of misdemeanor: misdemeanor, authorities to decide on sanctions, the principle of legality, doing and not doing, guilt, kinds of sanctions for offences, sentences, statute of limitations, other institutes of the general part of substantive law of misdemeanor.
A survey of the special part of substantive law of misdemeanor: offences against traffic safety, financial offences, offences against public peace and order, offences against copyright and related rights, selection from other important laws that regulate offences.
Offence procedure. The principle of fairness, the principle of economical quality, the principle of directness, verbal evidence, publicity and contradiction. Actual jurisdiction for conducting offence proceedings: courts and administrative bodies. Instituting offence proceedings. Findings of administrative bodies. Misdemeanor charge. Request to institute offence proceedings. Hearing before magistrates’ court/administrative body. Law of evidence in offence proceedings. Kinds of decision in offence proceedings. Legal remedies.
Effectuation of formal decision. Effectuation of a fine and custodial sentence. Supplementary imprisonment. Realisation of other measures. 

5.	CRIMINAL SCIENCE

Basic contents of the subject

The concept, subject, tasks and methods of criminal science. Heuristic, syllogistic, repressive, preventive, theoretical and practical criminal science. Criminalistic phenomenology, tactics, technique and methods. Gnostic contents of criminal science. Criminal science, criminal law and criminal proceedings. Criminal science and other scientific disciplines.
Sources of evidentiary facts on legally relevant facts: leads and objects, persons, documents. technical recordings of facts.
Criminal concepts within the methodology of criminal inquiry and the language of criminal science. Criminal inquiry as a system. The contents of criminal inquiry: aim and object of procedural inquiry, guidelines in explanation and inquiry, criminal situations, operative and guarding situations, criminal-tactical manners of inquiry.
Operational police activity: concept, role, tasks and means of operative-evidential activities of the police (criminal control and investigation). Operational analysis of criminal measures and acts.
Methodology of criminal investigation: criminal differential diagnosis, criminal process of thought, flow-charts of criminal investigation, operational-procedural systems.
Methodical approach to the investigation of individual categories of criminal offences (criminal methodology): investigation of the course of a criminal offence commitment, flow-charts of applicable investigation programs, operational analysis focused on the cause-and-effect relation, investigation of the forms of guilt, characteristics of individual categories of criminal offences, syllogistic aspects of the technology of criminal offences.
Criminal tactical-operational activities and measures (criminal tactics), criminal contents of the criminal activities (methods and means), the most frequent failures in their commitment, forms of communication between state punitive bodies.
Case study.

6.	PENITENTIAL LAW

Basic contents of the subject

Constitutional, criminal and criminal-political aspects of the execution of criminal sanctions: their kinds, purpose and execution. Basic rights of citizens and their limitations for the purpose of execution of criminal sanctions.
Custodial sanctions in the criminal sanction system. Custodial penalty and the evolution of its understanding through historical development.
Basic principles of custodial sentence.
Custodial sentence in Croatia. Legal sources: Custodial Penalty Act, sub-Acts, international regulations and standards. Bodies for realisation of custodial penalty: structure and types, authority, professional staff and their authorities and duties, judge. Prisoner and the protection of his rights.
Course of prison term. Imprisonment, deferred imprisonment, admittance to prison and their classification. Work, employment and education of prisoners. Life in prison: personal rights and accommodation of prisoners, health protection in prison. Relations to the outside world: correspondence, telephone conversations, packages, money, visits. Benefits and deciding on them. Order and security in prison. General and special maintenance of order and security, application of coercive measures and the principle of reciprocity, breaches of discipline and disciplinary proceedings. Release from custody.
Changes in prison term. Consequences of exceptional legal remedies in criminal proceeding. Consequences of amnesty and pardon. Statute of limitation of the execution of criminal sanction. Changes due to the application of parole. Transfer of prisoners. Relinquishment of a prisoner to a foreign country.
Post-penal aid: preparation of prisoners for discharge, help after release and social care. Time of release and the procedure of discharge from penitentiary facility.
Special forms of custodial sanctions: socio-therapeutic measures in the treatment of prisoners, custodial sanctions for youth, holding in custody.

CONSTITUTIONAL-ADMINISTRATIVE COURSE

1.	INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE

Basic contents of the subject

Basic political institutions of contemporary political systems:
Theoretical and methodological orientations in political sciences. Theory of the origin of power, subjects of politics, political processes, political institutions and contemporary analysis of politics and political sciences. Political culture. Political culture and political stability. Elitist political culture. Political socialisation. Religion and political culture. Transformation of political culture. Media.

Political participation:
Voluntary participation in liberal democracies and oriented participation in communist countries. Post-communist societies: civil society development. Participation trends in the developing world. Revolutions.

Elections, voters and public opinion:
Evolution of the electoral right. Development and typology of contemporary electoral systems. Majority electoral systems. Proportional representation system. Competitive, semi-competitive and non-competitive elections. Electoral systems: scope, electoral rights and electoral returning. Electoral processes, types and hierarchy: parliamentary elections, presidential elections and local elections. Behaviour of voters. Referendums.  Public opinion. Public opinion poll.

Interest groups:
Classification of interest groups and their influence in society. Approach channels. Policy-communities and problem networks. Pluralism and corporativism. Interest groups in communist and post-communist countries. Interest groups in the developing countries.  

Political parties and party systems:
Evolution of political parties. Party organisations. Social foundation and ideology. Party competition. Party systems in democracies, semi-democracies and authoritative regimes. Parties in post-communist countries.

2.	RIGHTS OF CITIZENS IN THE EUROPEAN AND CROATIAN LEGAL TRADITION

Basic contents of the subject

Introduction. Traditional presumptions of contemporary legal systems and citizens’ rights and the importance of their learning; importance of comparative approach. Basic conceptual guidelines: human rights, fundamental freedoms and rights, freedoms and rights of citizens; tradition, modernity, modernisation; centre and periphery, independence and dependence.
Formation of modern legal systems and regulation of the rights of citizens in European countries from 1780-1914; the model framework of concrete comparative approach (centre and periphery, independence and dependence), developmental processes in Europe and the position of Croatia.
Development of modern society, modernisation of law and institutionalisation of the right of citizens in European countries from 1780-1914: England, France, Germany, Austria and Hungary; other countries. Special characteristics of the development in the European core countries and on its periphery, in independent and dependent countries.
Modern institutions, rights of citizens and their protection in European countries and in Croatia from 1848-1914; basic determinants; the rule of law; conceptual and developmental guidelines (England and Germany); administration and the judiciary, independence and dependence of the judiciary. Legal-cultural, doctrinary and model origins of modernisation in Croatia. Individual freedoms and rights of citizens in Croatian and European environment; the right of domicilary status and citizenship; electoral right; equal status of religions, the position of national minorities; freedom of the press and the jurisdiction of the jury; the right of public gathering, the right of petition and the right to association; other freedoms and rights.
Development of modern legal system and the rights of citizens in Croatia and the European environment: basic characteristics and determinants.

3.	LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT
Basic contents of the subject

Conceptual issues:
Local self-government. Local administration. Local unit. Local community. Concepts of the role of local units: administrative decentralisation, political decentralisation, subsidiary principle, communal concept. Elements of the autonomy of local self-government units. Political decentralisation benefits. Concept of local self-government in Croatia. International acts on local self-government. The European Charter of Local Self-Government. The European charter of cities. The European charter of regional self-government.
Territorial basis of local self-government:
Principles of territorial division. Factors that influence territorial division. Dilemmas of the territorial division. General and special local units. Monotypical and polytypical structure (kinds of local units). Large and small local units (problem of size). Traditional and modern municipalities. Gradation and connection of local units. Criteria for determining the area of local units. Change of territorial division and the influence of local population. Comparative examples of territorial organisation. Territorial division in Croatia.

Local affairs:
Vertical demarcation of public affairs. Different European traditions of vertical demarcation. The meaning of the principle of subsidiarity for vertical demarcation. Legal techniques of determining the scope of local self-government: general clause and enumeration. Obligatory and facultative scope. Basic groups of local affairs. Municipal services. Innovations in performing local affairs. Market mechanisms and local public services. Regional affairs. Autonomy in performing self-government tasks. The difference between self-governing and transferred scope. The usual transferred scope. Legal techniques of transferring state administration tasks to local units. The transferred scope versus territorial branches of central state administration bodies. Local affairs in Croatia.

Management in local self-government:
Local bodies and process of managing the local unit. Forms of direct decision making of citizens (assemblies of all citizens, citizen councils, referendum, citizens’ initiative). Institutions of citizens’ participation in local affairs (decentralised bodies, co-opting of citizens, citizen associations). Local representative bodies: party systems, local electoral system, electoral right, the term of office, responsibility, structure, authority, manner of work. Executive level. Functions of the executive level. Types of the executive level: simple and developed monocratic type, committee type (and their variants). Contemporary trends in the election of local leadership: direct election of heads, municipal managers. Local administrative organisations: regulatory, co-ordinating, servicing. Local bodies in Croatia: representative bodies, individual and collegiate executive bodies, administrative organisations. Forms of direct democracy and citizen participation in the Croatian local self-government.

Relations between the central state and local self-government:
The principle of the relation between the state and local self-government. The means of the central bodies’ influence on local self-government: legal regulation of local self-government, division of tasks, information, provision of aid, control, interventions, financial instruments. The control of the state bodies over local self-government. The control in the self-governmental and transferred scope. The control of general and particular acts. The control in financial matters. The control of the central executive power, courts and special bodies (ombudsman). The protection of local self-government. Constitutionalisation of local self-government – the right of citizens on local self-government. Representation of local interests in central state bodies. Court protection, constitutional court protection, ombudsman for local self-government, control mechanisms of the Council of Europe. Central-local relations in Croatia.

Decentralisation and social processes:
Local self-government and globalisation. The role of local institutions in the world that is integrating and undergoing globalisation. The influence of urbanisation on decentralisation. Urbanisation and the development of cities (counter-urbanisation, localisation, industrial urbanisation, continued urbanisation and metropolitanisation). Cities and their specific problems in the local self-government system. Large cities and capitals. Regionalism, regional self-government, regionalisation and multilevel governance. The European Union and regionalisation. Regional units in the view of regional policy of the EU. European integration and harmonisation of local self-government. The activity of the Council of Europe, European Union and other international subjects. Ethnicity and local self-government: minority self-government.

The decentralisation process:
The comparative overview of the decentralisation processes. Decentralisation and contemporary reforms of the public administration. Decentralisation in continental Western European countries. Decentralisation in Anglo-Saxon countries. Decentralisation in countries in transition. Decentralisation as a global process. Policy and implementation of decentralisation. Decentralisation strategy. Aims of decentralisation. The programme and detailed plan of decentralisation. Legal foundations of decentralisation. Bodies and subjects for the implementation of decentralisation. Phases of the decentralisation process. Suppositions of a successful decentralisation. Decentralisation risks.

The decentralisation process in Croatia:
The development of local self-government on the Croatian territory. Initial legal regulation of the right on local self-government in the beginning of 1990s. Changes in the regulations in the beginning of 2000s. Conceptual changes: from the system of ‘local self-government and government’ to the system of ‘local and regional self-government’. The development of territorial structure. The change in the scope of local tasks and authorities. Changes of local representative bodies and their relations. The development of central-local relations. The assessment of the situation and the perspective of decentralisation in Croatia.

4. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURAL LAW

Basic contents of the subject
Administrative procedures:
The relation between general and special administrative procedures
General administrative procedure
Legal regulation of the administrative procedure
Principles of administrative procedure
Jurisdiction (real and local, collegiate and executive bodies, persons holding the procedure)
Parties (physical and legal persons, collectives) and their representatives (legal, temporary, authorised persons, professional assistants)
Instigation of the procedure and its course (investigative and professional procedure)
Argumentation and evidence 
Costs of procedure
Procedural decisions (conclusion and final decision)
Legal remedies: regular and exceptional
Realisation of administrative decisions (types of realisation, authority, instigation and the course of executive procedure, legal remedies)
Characteristics of special administrative procedures (custom, tax, inspection etc.)
The procedure of administrative bodies (police, inspectors and others) in delicts (authority, powers, temporary restriction of the person’s rights, instigation of proceedings before courts in charge, legal remedies, realisation).

5. CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SYSTEMS
Basic contents of the subject
1.	The subject and contents of the comparative study of contemporary political systems. The modern science of comparative political systems.
2.	Classification of political systems: democratic and autocratic regimes. Modern democracies, Europe and North America. New democracies in Central and East Europe. Problems of transformation into democracy in the former communist countries. The position and perspectives of the Republic of Croatia in the process of transformation. Problems of the development of political institutions. New institutional analysis. The theory of the constitutional choice. The pluralist model of political systems.
3.	The theory of the division of power and its application in contemporary developed democracies: Great Britain, the United States of America, Germany, France. Contemporary parlamentarism. Problems of the application in the political system of the Republic of Croatia.
Compound states and state communities: American theories of federalism. The comparative approach in the study of compound states and state communities. The fall of the communist federations and the emergence of new and independent states. Emergence of the independent and sovereign Republic of Croatia. The realisation of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia.
6.	ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

Basic contents of the subject
The concept of environment
The historical development of the environment protection, particularly legal protection
Legal sources of the environmental law: the Croatian law (the Constitution, laws, by-laws), international agreements (multilateral and bilateral), the law of European Union (decisions, recommendations) and the judicial practice of the national and international courts
Basic principles of the promotion and protection of environment
Croatia and international bodies (agencies) and associations in charge of environment (authority, powers)
Legal regulation of biological diversity and the protection of nature, forests, land areas, waters (running and stagnant, above-ground and underground, particularly drinkable water), sea space and air (atmosphere)
Legal problems of waste management
Basic forms of the legal environmental protection: administrative, civil and criminal
Tax policy and tax measures in the sphere of preservation and protection of environment

COMMERCIAL LAW COURSE

1. BANKING LAW

Basic contents of the subject

The concept of banking law. The separation of banking law from other branches of law and its relation to individual branches of law. Legal nature of the business relation between the bank and the client. Banking secret and bank communication. The legal position of companies for the protection of credit safety. Kinds and the concept of bank account.  Transfer account contract. Current account agreement of transfer account. Payment by bank transfer. Payment by account debit. Payment by debit and credit cards. Bank credit contract. Legal position of the Croatian National Bank and business banks.

2.	INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY LAW

Basic contents of the subject

The concept of industrial property. The separation of industrial property law from other branches of law and its relation to other branches of law. Patent. Stamp. Protection of the label of geographical origin of products and services. Protection of the plans of the integral structure system. Transfer of industrial property rights. International industrial property right.

3.	INSURANCE LAW

Basic contents of the subject

INTRODUCTION TO INSURANCE LAW: Contemporary economic significance of insurance. Historical development of insurance law. Legal sources. Types of insurance.
INSURANCE CONTRACTS IN GENERAL: The definition of the insurance contract. General characteristics of contracts. Contractual parties and their obligations. Concluding contracts. Types of contracts. Insurance policy.
TRANSFER OF INSURANCE CONTRACT: The concept of the insurance contract transfer. The transfer of insurance carrier’s rights and obligations. The transfer of the insured person’s rights and obligations. Manners of transfer and its effect.
TERMINATION OF INSURANCE CONTRACT: Termination of contract based on citizen’s rights. Termination of contract based on insurance right. Legal consequences of the termination of contract.
ELEMENT OF INSURANCE RELATION: Risk – the concept, types of risks, significant element of risk, individualisation of risk. The object of insurance. The concept of premium. Elements for determining the premium value. Invariability and indivisibility of the premium. Legal consequences of failure to pay the premium. The insurance amount and the value of insured interest. Full insurance. Supplementary insurance. Sub-insurance. Partial insurance. Insured case.
RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF CONTRACTUAL PARTIES: Rights and duties of the insurance carrier and insured person. Payment of insurance money (premium). Consequences of the failure to perform contractual obligations. Subrogation right.
REINSURANCE: The concept of reinsurance. Relations between parties in reinsurance. Types of reinsurance.
VOLUNTARY INSURANCE: Individual types of voluntary insurance in general.
TRANSPORT INSURANCE: The concept of transport insurance. Cargo and comprehensive insurance. Shipping insurance. Insurance of air transport. Terrestrial transport insurance. Institutional insurance clauses.
INSURANCE OF PERSONS: Life insurance. Casualty insurance.  Annuity insurance.
OBLIGATORY INSURANCE: The concept of obligatory insurance. Cases of obligatory insurance n Croatian law – legal analysis.

4.	COMPETITION LAW

Basic contents of the subject

The concept and purpose of competition law. Historical development of competition law. Sources of competition law. Bodies that ensure free market competition. Relevant market. Agreements (forbidden agreements, consequences of forbidden agreements, group and individual exceptions). Monopolistic activity (monopolistic and ruling position, abuse). Concentrations (the notion, the occurrence of concentration, the assessment of concentration acceptability). State subsidies.

5.	INSOLVENCY LAW

Basic contents of the subject

The subject comprises the subject-matter of bankruptcy law and the insolvency proceedings related to it: introduction to insolvency law, reasons to initiate insolvency proceedings, insolvent debtors, creditors of insolvent debtors, insolvency proceeding bodies, previous procedure and the opening of insolvency proceeding, procedure after the initiation of insolvency proceeding, conclusion and termination, insolvency plan, personal management, release from remaining obligations, bank insolvency proceedings, insolvency proceeding with an international character – international insolvency law.

6.	SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES THROUGH ARBITRATION AND RECONCILIATION

Basic contents of the subject

The concept and types of arbitration. Sources of arbitration law. Arbitration agreement. Arbitration Tribunal. Arbitration proceeding. Relevant law. The suit to reverse a sentence. Acceptance and execution of sentence. Reconciliation and other forms of alternative dispute resolutions

ELECTIVE SUBJECTS

MORALITY AND DEONTOLOGY OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION

Basic contents of the subject

Introduction
Corpus of morality and deontology
The principle of indisputable care of human authorities (‘rights’) and freedoms, human life as a value-goal
The principle that in the case of a dispute between moral-deontological and immoral-legal, the choice of moral-deontological is the right one!
The principle that the choice and usage of values should never threaten, deny or invalidate the value-goal
General principles
The principle of external independence (from the authority of the government and social community) – Guarantees of freedom: substantive, in professional activity, in the regulation of professional activity. 
The principle of internal independence – guarantees of freedom: person’s ‘integrity’ – moral credibility, moral being; permanent general and professional education, verified competence in the profession, inadmissibility of plagiarism, conscience of one’s own possibilities and limitations, action in accordance with the professional regulations (lege artis) with independence, truthfulness, objectivity/impartiality
The principle of (non)threatening of independence – inadmissibility of bribery, corruption, professional deprivation, conflict of interest, tasks and relations incompatible with the dignity of the profession, professional abuse, in particular in the  view of new technologies
The principle of possibility and limits of independence – the principle of appeal to conscience (general and personal justification, extremely narrowed application, value paradox, difficulty, intolerance)
The principle of appropriate professional relations – relations to the individual and community, a man is a final, and not an instrumental value, awareness and realisation of the principles of equality-fairness-justness, the principle of tolerance, the principle of freedom, the principle of fellowship, professional secret, meaning and boundaries
Relations within professional association – the principle of positive solidarity, mistakes in the profession, inadmissibility of the principle of negative solidarity, moral imperative of pointing to immorality and non-deontology (thus disrespect of the law)
Relations to authorities – the dispute of loyalty “quis custodiet ipsos custodes” – indisputable step back, appeal to conscience, civil disobedience
The principle of individual tasks-roles: special characteristics of the profession, sub-profession, peripheral areas (meanings, scopes)
The principle of responsibility – standards, types of responsibility: moral responsibility – awareness of one’s own conscience, coercion of one’s own conscience, original responsibility, the dark side of freedom, moral credibility; legal responsibility, types. The principle of duress – types – moral, legal, bodies, procedures.
The principle of possible conflict of values, limitations of the principle, gradation of values/principles
The principle of credibility, trust, support
The principle of the need to permanently judge, re-establish and promote morality and deontology
The principles and special features in public (political) activity. In strike. 
In expert evaluation and court expert’s opinion – principles: the tasks and the role of court’s expert (profession, separation within the profession and between professions (f.e. psychiatry, psychology), appropriate tutorship, permanent/occasional experts, so-called private experts/expert opinions, indisputable double standards/precepts of morality and deontology – basic profession of experts and their expertise, acceptance of expert’s opinions in strictly professional area. Competence and authorities; possible difficulties due to repeated expert opinion; awareness and conscience of personal reach, real possibilities, experience, objective circumstances, circumstances of the case; acting in the profession respecting at least basic principles of court expert testimony; much-needed interdisciplinary approach; the dispute between the value of expert opinion and the case of strike in the profession and/or in the status of court expert; indisputable moral-deontological responsibilities of court experts outside expert associations; the nature of giving expert opinion.
The ethos of the legal profession in relation to the ethos of other professions.

ENGLISH FOR LAW V

Basic contents of the subject

Topics: The Study and Classification of Law, The Sources of English Law: the principal and subsidiary sources of law, the role and importance of legislation, judicial precedent, custom and authoritative writings; equity; comparison of the case-law system (common law) with civil-law legal systems (Continental law); the UK system of government, Parliamentary Sovereignty; The UK Electoral System; Statutory Interpretation: the interpretation of statues by the English courts and comparison with judicial interpretation in other legal systems; EC Law: the interpretation and application of European Community law and its effects; The Judicial System: the hierarchy and jurisdiction of civil and criminal courts in England and Wales and comparison with other court systems; Judicial Decisions as Authorities.

Linguistic units: the analysis of different kinds of legal texts; expansion and determination of legal terminology and complex structures of the legal language; writing abstracts, essay and seminar papers; translation.

Units: Case Study – The Court of Appeal: Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.; The European Court of Human Rights: The Tyrer Case – Anthony Tyrer v. UK; First Court Judgments concerning Croatia: The Truhli Case – Truhli v. Croatia, The Rajak Case – Rajak v. Croatia, The Mikulic Case – Mikulic v. Croatia; The European Court of Justice: Macarthys LTD. v. Smith; International Arbitration: The Rainbow Warrior Affair – New Zealand v. France; International Court of Justice: United States of America v. Iran

Linguistic units: the analysis of legal cases (determining the facts, legal grounds for taking legal action, legal proceeding, passing the court decision, verdict); expansion and determination of legal terminology and complex structures of the legal language; writing abstracts, essay and seminar papers; writing Curriculum Vitae.

ENGLISH FOR LAW VI

Basic contents of the subject

Topics: a selection of texts, cases and materials from the book EU Law – Texts, Cases and Materials, and a selection of texts from international and European legal instruments: The Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the International Court of Justice; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; The Convention on the Rights of the Child; The Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations; The Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims; The European Charter of Local Self-government; The Bologna Declaration on the European Space for Higher Education; The Constitution of Europe.

Linguistic units: the study and analysis of texts, cases and materials from European law, and international and European legal institutions and instruments (the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Community, the European Union, the European Court of Justice); expansion and determination of legal terminology; writing comments, presentations, abstracts and seminar papers; legal translation.

EUROPEAN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW

Basic contents of the subject

1.1.	GENERAL PART

The concept of European private international law. Europeanisation of private international law. The history of the development of European private international law. Legal structure of European private international law: The Amsterdam Treaty 1997 and the Nice Treaty 2001, the legislative authority of the EC for solving private law situations with international character, external competence of the EC and European private international law, sources of European private international law in the wider sense. The influence of human rights as a special constituent of European law on private international law. The influence of fundamental freedoms from the Agreement of the EC Establishment on private international law. The role of The European Community Court (European Court). The influence of primary associative law on the Croatian private international law.

1.2.	SPECIAL PART

1.2.1.	Relevant law
The Roman Convention on relevant law for contractual obligations from 1980; the proposal of the Roman regulation II on relevant law for non-contractual responsibility for damage from 2003.

1.2.2.	International civil procedural law
The (EC) Regulation 44/2001 of the judicial competence, recognition and execution of court decisions in civil and commercial cases from 2000. The (EC) Regulation 2201/2000 of the judicial competence, recognition and execution of court decision in marital cases and in the proceeding on parental responsibility for the children of their spouses from 2003. The (EC) Regulation 1348/2000 of the delivery of judicial and extrajudicial documents in civil and commercial cases in member states from 2000; the (EC) Regulation 1346/2000 on the execution proceeding from 2000; The (EC) Regulation of the introduction of the European writ of execution for indisputable claims from 2004.

1.2.3.	Harmonisation of the Croatian private international law with the European private international law

PHILOSOPHY OF LAW

Basic contents of the subject

Introduction
Philosophy – philosophy of law
Basic boundaries of philosophy of law
Separation of liberal studies (philosophy) and social sciences (law), and the division of the realisation of law on the level of philosophy and the level of jurisprudence. Philosophy of law according to the methodology of law, general theory of law and jurisprudence. Philosophy of law according to ontology, gnoseology, ethics, anthropology, teleology of law. Controversiality  of philosophy of law in relation to the consistent general theory of law.
Basic topical units of philosophy of law
What is law (quid ius, quid iuris). Legal cognition. Values in law
Theories of justice (iustum et iniustum). Morality and law. Meaning and justification of law
Value judgement of law
Historical and problem-oriented aspects of philosophy of law
Philosophy of law in philosophical tradition: Greek philosophy; philosophy from Aristotle to Renaissance; philosophy of Renaissance; rationalistic philosophy; empirical philosophy; French philosophy of Enlightenment; philosophy of German classical idealism; modern and contemporary philosophy of the West.
Philosophy of law in legal (and philosophical) tradition: natural-legal theories – ius naturalism (ancient times, Middle Ages, modern theories); positive-legal theories (dogmatics of law, stateism, pure theory of law, analytical theories of law); sociological legal theories (historical theories, theories of interest, solidarity theories, theories of social law, legal realism); modern legal theories (integral, phenomenological, existential, nature of things).
Philosophy of law in the geographic-spatial tradition and in the tradition of main systems of law in the world.
Philosophy of law in Croatia

FRENCH FOR LAW I

Basic contents of the subject

Topics: a selection of articles from the translation of the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia into the French language: Basic provisions, Protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; a selection of articles from the European Convention for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; a selection of articles from the General Declaration on human rights; legal education; legal institutions and organisations in the world; humanitarian organisations; maternity leaves.

Linguistic units: expansion and intensification of the previously acquired knowledge of the French language, with a special emphasis on the professional language of law; the analysis of legal texts; acquisition of legal terminology; word formation; sentence structuring; filling in legal texts; translation; written and oral abstracts; writing of dictations.

Units: the vocation, role and characteristics of a good lawyer; history, definition and development of democracy; the European Union – history, development, new institutions, expansion, the European constitution; adoption of children; the relation between rights and duties; Pacs law; a wall for peace; the Museum of Europe; law and justice.

Linguistic units: acquisition and intensification of the knowledge of the French language for law, written and oral analysis of legal texts, further acquisition of legal terminology, writing papers and abstracts, translation.   

FRENCH FOR LAW II

Basic contents of the subject

Topics: Domaines et sources du droit; Le cadre institutionnel national; Les institutions europeennes; Les jurisdictions; Acteurs et procedures; Les personnes juridiques: driots, obligations, biens, responsabilite; Vie et mort des enterprises et des societes; Les droit du travail; L’activite des enterprises et les regles de concurrence; Les relations entre les enterprises et les pouvoirs publics.

Linguistic units: introduction to the French language for law; mastering legal terminology; written and oral analysis of the topics related to the basic concepts of the French law and the European Union law

MORTGAGE GUARANTEE – HISTORICAL ASPECT

Basic contents of the subject

Prasis epy lisey, apotimena and hypotheca of the Greek law. Pignora in Caton’s forms. Pignus obligatum and mortgage. The sphere of application. Greek influences. Mortgage in Cicero’s letters (Ad Atticum, 2,17 / Ad fam. 12,6). Interdictum Salvanium, actio Serviana and quasi Serviana. The problem of publicity. Tabula Boethica and solutions in practice. Ius vendendi and lex commissoria in the texts by classical jurists. Medieval mortgages. Creditors’ alternatives. The character of ‘permanent property’ of creditors. Ius redemptionis. The question of interest rates and pactum anthichreticum. The right of disposal of the mortgaged real property and the exemption from the statute of limitations.

OUT-OF-COURT SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

Basic contents of the subject

The subject comprises the scope of techniques and methods of out-of-court (extra-judicial) settlement of disputes: negotiation, mediation and conciliation, as well as arbitration. The students are taught the general theory of the methods of out-of-court settlement of disputes, as the alternative to proceedings held before the state judiciary bodies, as well as basic characteristic of individual methods mentioned above. The new legislation in this area is particularly analysed (The Arbitration Act and The Conciliation Act), but attention is also given to the new comparative trends in the usage of so-called alternative dispute resolution abroad and internationally. The topics covered in the subject are: the relation between the state judiciary and its alternatives; a survey of possibilities to settle disputes out of court; types of disputes and the methods of their settlement; legal, interest and other disputes; favourable conditions of some disputes for their alternative resolution; techniques of the dispute resolution with and without the possibility of obligatory decision; out-of-court settlement of disputes in individual specific areas: civil, commercial, family, individual and collective disputes. 

COMPARATIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Basic contents of the subject

Comparative method in the public administration study
The meaning and possibilities of the comparative analysis of public administration. The variants of comparative method. Comparison as a description and as a means to test the theoretical framework. Comparison of administrative systems and comparison of individual issues. Comparison of functions, institutions and processes. The selection and classification of countries for the purposes of comparison. European administrative traditions. Developed and transitional European countries. Non-European countries. Problems in the comparative method application in the public administration study. Fast administrative changes and the comparative analysis. European integration framework, harmonization of the public administration system and the application of comparative analysis. Expectations from the application of comparative method. Possibility to apply the results of the comparative analysis of public administration.

Public administration and political system
Democratic/undemocratic type of political systems and public administration. Variants of democratic political systems (parliamentary, presidential, assembly system) and the position of public administration in them. Formal and actual relation between the government and administration in individual countries. The authorities of representative bodies towards the administration. The authorities of the head of the state towards the administration. The government: structure, position in the system, responsibilities and authorities, modalities of the effectuation the leading role and the co-ordination of the public administration, the center of the government. Political co-ordination of the administration. Political control of the administration.

Public administration (Civil service)
The differentiation of the public administration: types and number of administrative bodies. The principles of the organisation of administrative bodies and the distribution of tasks among them. The horizontal division of administrative tasks (scope) and the manners of co-operation among administrative bodies. Modalities of vertical differentiation and territorial organisation within individual administrative bodies. Manners and instruments of the co-ordination of the public administration (committees, co-operation and agreement, policy networks, regulations, financial instruments, personal authorities, organisational instruments, responsibility etc). The administration control by the representative, executive and judiciary bodies. The control of the legality of administrative regulations. The relation between the administration and citizens (the rights of citizens in regards of the administration, participation of citizens in the work of the administration, court protection of the rights of citizens etc). 

Civil servants
Categories of civil servants (administrative staff) with numerical indicators. Civil servants’ legislation. The application of European standards in regards of the staff. The type of classification system. The manner of assessment and promotion of civil servants. The organisation of administrative education, training and upgrade of civil servants. Depoliticisation and professionalisation. Administrative culture. The quality of the payment system in the administration and its comparison with other payment systems in individual countries. The firmness of ethical standards in the state administration. Bodies and system of human resources management.

Contemporary administrative reforms  
Areas and intensity of reforms. Principles, measures and the course of reforms. Bodies in charge of reforms and reform management. Results of administrative reforms. The application of new methods of administrative activity: making public policies, strategic planning, project budgeting, E-administration, orientation towards citizens (the application of the one-stop-shop principle and others), multi-level governance, estimation of the effects of new regulations, management of the result comparison, quality management of public services, public market, commercialisation etc. Innovations in performing civil services: outsourcing, public-private partnership, concessions, giving public jobs on the basis of contracts, privatisation, the new regulation through independent regulatory bodies etc.  Innovations in the management of human resources in public administration. New organisational solutions. 

MEDICINE AND LAW

Basic contents of the subject

Introduction to law and medicine. Medical ethics. Sources of health law (domestic and international documents). Basic principles within health law.
Rights of patients. The right to an adequate treatment. Prohibition of discrimination. The right on humane treatment. The right on privacy. The right on self-determination.
The informed consent. The concept of informed consent. Information that should be given to the patient. When is a person capable to give a consent. The right to reject information.
Biomedical research on people. The legal and ethical framework of conducting biomedical research. Conditions for the permissibility of the research. Requirements to conduct research on persons with mental retardation. Responsibility in the case of failure to adhere to regulations.
Medical secrecy. The definition of medical secrecy. The duty to keep the secret. Exemptions from the duty to keep a secret. Responsibility for the breach of medical secrecy.
Medical documentation. The contents of the documentation. Availability of the data from medical documentation.
Responsibility of doctors. Acting within the risk boundaries. Criminal liability (arbitrary medical treatment, unconscientious treatment, inadmissible transplantation, failure to provide medical treatment). Civil liability (compensation of damages). Criminal liability.
Ethical and legal problems of human procreation. Artificial insemination. Surrogate motherhood. Cloning. Sterilisation and castration. Prenatal intervention and rights of foetus.
Abortion. Ethical legal aspects (the right of the mother v. the right of the unborn child). Cases of the European Court of Human Rights. Regulation of abortion and illegal abortion in the Republic of Croatia.
Legal aspects of intensive care. The right to die. Aid to the dying person. Euthanasia (pro and con, ethical dilemmas, legal regulation in the Republic of Croatia and comparatively).
Transplantation of the parts of human body. Determining death. The law on taking and transplanting parts of human body. The law on conditions to take and transplant parts of human body. Transfusion of blood to Jehova’s witnesses.
AIDS. Legal implications of AIDS. Protection from discrimination. Protection of privacy.
Mentally ill persons. Voluntary hospitalisation. Coercive hospitalisation. Special rights of mentally ill persons.

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS

Basic contents of the subject

International economy
Why international economy. The subject of the study of international economy. Problems of studying international economy.

International trade
Neo-classical theories of trade. Modern theories of trade. Protectionism and free trade. 

International monetary problems and solutions
International payments and inter-currency exchange rates. Inter-currency relations, origin, nature, market, function.

International financial institutions
The World Bank. History of the World Bank. World Bank and economic development. International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. 

The World Bank and economic development
The RYBCZYNSKI theorem. The Heckscher-Olin case.

World trade and developing countries
Causes of economic underdevelopment. Economic underdevelopment and economic dependence. International trade and developing countries. Unilateral sources of aid: AID – Agency for International Development, the Export-Import Bank, OECD countries.

The position and role of free trade in the changing of the world – the problem of protectionism
From mercantilism to free trade and back. Protectionism and freedom of trade in Europe.

Regional approach to free trade
Regional economic integration-methods and approaches. Methods and forms of regional integration. Customs union. Some important economic and political integrations.

Problems of debts in the international community
Models of the capital movement. Problems of capital drain.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DIPLOMACY

Basic contents of the subject

Introduction
The concepts of international relations and diplomacy
The role of diplomacy in international relations
The tendency of growth of international relations and diplomacy

Changes in international relations after the Cold War
The influence of globalization on international relations: the increase of interdependence
Reduction of the chance of global conflict, the increase of the number of local conflicts
The role of the UN, especially the UN Security Council
From bipolarity to unipolarity or multipolarity
USA as the only remaining super power
Expansion and strengthening of regional connection, especially the EU
“Developmental aims of the millenium” and the problems of the developing countries
The challenge of terrorism, its roots and prerequisites of the effective fight against it
Croatia and its international surrounding

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE STATE SOVEREIGNTY
The evolution of the understanding of the state sovereignty
The growth of the influence of international organisations and associations
The growth of the influence of non-governmental associations
The development of the international protection of human rights
Experiences of the international criminal court practice and humanitarian intervention

CONTEMPORARY DIPLOMACY
The establishment of foreign policy aims and the role of diplomacy
The development of methods and techniques
Bilateral and multilateral diplomacy
The art of negotiation
Selection of diplomats and their education
Diplomacy and ethics

INTERNATIONAL REVENUE LAW

Basic contents of the subject

1.	INTRODUCTION – Postulation of basic problems
2.	LEGAL SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL REVENUE LAW
3.	PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL TAX LAW
4.	INTERNATIONAL DOUBLE TAXATION
•	Definition
•	Significance
•	Types
•	Means to avoid international double taxation (contracts, internal regulations)

5.	THE STRUCTURE OF THE DOUBLE TAXATION AVOIDANCE TREATY
•	Structure according to articles (OECD model)
6.	INTERNATIONAL AVOIDANCE OF TAX
•	Kinds of international avoidance of tax (legal and illegal)
•	Off-shore centres
•	Transfer pricing
•	Treaty shopping
•	Undercapitalization
7.	MEASURES AGAINST INTERNATIONAL AVOIDANCE OF TAX
8.	BASIC ISSUES OF THE ADJUSTMENT OF TAXATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
9.	INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION OF TAX AUTHORITIES
10.	OTHER ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL TAX LAW

INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE SEA

Basic contents of the subject

Introductory and general issues: The concept of international maritime law. Historical development. Sources of maritime law (law of contract, common law, international organisations’ acts, one-sided acts by states, the influence of science and international judicature. Subjects of maritime law. General principles of international maritime law.
Legal regimes of the individual parts of the sea and sea bed: Internal maritime waters. Territorial sea. Archipelagic waters. External belt. Exclusively economic belt. Epicontinental belt. Open sea. The international sea bed zone. The boundary demarcation of maritime areas. Special and unsolved issues (the Arctic, the Antarctic, closed or semi-closed seas).
Maritime research and exploitation: Navigation (in individual belts, straits and canals). Fishery (the rules of the UN Convention on the law of the sea; regional contracts, the Adriatic sea). Exploitation of the sea bed mineral resources (within the boundaries of national jurisdiction; deep sea mining according to the UN Convention on the law of the sea; protection of pioneer investors in the Preparatory Committee for the International authority over ocean floor). Scientific research of the sea. The development and transfer of maritime technology. The position of the states without the coastline and countries in unfavourable geographical position.
Protection and preservation of the maritime environment: General law (basic principles, sources of pollution, passing and implementing national and international regulations). Protection of regional seas (in particular the Barcelona Convention on the protection of the Mediterranean and additional protocols). Protection of the Adriatic.
Maritime military activities in peacetime: The UN Convention on the law of the sea and military activities in peacetime. Contractual restrictions of maritime military activities: the restriction of maritime weaponry; demilitarisation of maritime areas; peace zones; denuclearisation of the parts of the sea. Measures to establish trust and to reduce the risks of the outbreak of war at the sea.
Peaceful dispute resolutions in the sphere of international maritime law: General international law. The Geneva conventions of 1958. Regional solutions. The system of the dispute resolution according to the UN Convention on the law of the sea. 

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR LAW AND SOCIAL SECURITY

Basic contents of the subject

Labour Law:
The concept of international labour law, international public labour law and international private labour law; the relation between international and internal labour law; the organisation of international labour law; sources of international labour law; international labour law and basic/human rights.

International organisation of labour; establishment, scope and aims of the International Labour Organisation; membership of the International Labour Organisation; tripartite structure of the International Labour Organisation; International Labour Organisation bodies.
Conventions and recommendations of International Labour Organisation; other legal acts of International Labour Organisation; application and control over the application of conventions and recommendations of International Labour Organisation.

European labour law; the Council of Europe and European Union; sources and application of European labour law; adjustment and application of the European Union law.

International collective labour relations; organisations of employees and employers.

Social security law:
The concept of international social security law; the relation between international and national social security law; the organisation of international social security law; sources of international social security law; international social security law and fundamental/human rights.

The concepts of social security, social insurance and social welfare.

International social standards.

The World Health Organisation; the establishment, scope and aims of the World Health Organisation; membership of the World Health Organisation; the World Health Organisation bodies.

European social security law; the Council of Europe and European Union; sources and application of European social security law; adjustment and application of the European Union law; European social fund.

NOMOTECNIQUE (NOMOTHETIC SCIENCE)
Basic contents of the subject
Basic purposes and basic requirements in the law-making.
Needs, importance and scope of law-making. Deontology of the legal profession and law-making.
Requirements and standards of the interdisciplinary character. Requirements and standards of European integration; reception, codification and unification.
General dogmatic frameworks of law-making – Sources of law; regulation of powers in the state. The Constitution of the Republic of Croatia; rules of procedure of the legislative bodies.
Standards for determining the dogmatic system and formal regulation of the rules of procedure. According to the manners and sequence of making. According to the legal form – written language in law. According to the legal form – by logic in law. Cybernetics and information science in law-making. Problems of the language and metalanguage; logic and metalogic.
The dogmatic system and formal regulation of general rules of procedure.
Dogmatic aspects of deciding in law (who, on what, based on what, how).
Law entity in the making and realisation of law.

GERMAN LANGUAGE FOR LAW V

Basic contents of the subject

Topics:
Texts for the development of the competence of understanding

GERMAN LANGUAGE FOR LAW VI

Basic contents of the subject

Topics:
Texts for the development of the competence of understanding

ORGANISATION OF THE JUDICIARY

Basic contents of the subject

The subject comprises the subject-matter of the organisational civil procedural law; the organisation of courts and other state bodies that participate in performing the judiciary functions, as well as the organisation and structure of other state bodies and professions that contribute to the functioning of the judicature. Apart from the basic theoretical issues, the issues connected to practical problems in the functioning of the judiciary and the implementation of the judicial reforms are discussed within the subject. The following topics are covered within the subject: the definition of the judicature and its separation from other spheres; the reform of the judiciary and its meaning in the European integration process; the institutions and professions that participate in administration of justice – a general survey; the sphere of judiciary activity and its role in the realisation of fundamental constitutional values, especially the rule of law and state of rule of law; independence of the judiciary: the role, definition and problems; citizens and the judiciary: the rights to have an access to the judiciary, the right to judicial proceedings in a reasonable time; judiciary power and courts: the definition, jurisdiction and role; the organisation of judiciary staff: judges, state attorneys, court services, the legal profession, other participants in judiciary functions; the efficiency of the judiciary: the definition, evaluation, statistic monitoring; the reform of the judiciary in Croatia: the survey of the problems and the developmental trends.

BASIC PANDECT LAW
Basic contents of the subject
I.	The concept and meaning of Pandect law
II.	Basic exegesis of pandects: a) identification of the text; b) translation of the text; c) interpretation of the text; d) comparison of Roman legal solutions contained in the text with the solutions of modern civil law
III.	a) Basic pandect doctrines; b) New-pandect doctrines
IV.	Usus hodiernus pandectarum: the Roman legal tradition and contemporary legal systems
1.	Roman legal tradition and the continental legal sphere;
2.	Ius commune and Common Law; the Roman legal tradition and Anglo-Saxon legal sphere;
3.	Roman legal rules as the source of modern positive law (South Africa, Scotland, Andorra, Malta, Channel Islands, San Marino etc.)
4.	Roman legal tradition and European legal system: a) Roman legal tradition as the basis of European legal culture; b) Roman legal principles in the decisions by the EU judicial bodies; c) the role of Roman legal tradition in the creation of European private law system.
5.	Roman legal tradition and Croatian legal system: a) Roman foundations of the Croatian legal system; b) Roman legal principles in the decisions by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia; c) Roman legal tradition and Croatian civil doctrine.

PERSONAL RIGHTS
Basic contents of the subject
1.	Personal rights as rights on civil (private law) protection of personal, non-proprietary goods. 
Doctrinary problems. Historical development. The position of civil protection of persons in legal systems – comparative legal overview. Personal rights in the legal system of the Republic of Croatia.
2.	Legal sources
The relation of the rules on civil protection of persons to other legal norms that protect freedoms and rights of persons
3.	Legal nature and special characteristics of personal rights
The classification of subjective personal rights. Subjects and objects. Impact, boundaries and duration of personal rights. Post-mortal protection.
4.	Violations of personal rights and the system of their civil protection
Individual claims for the protection of rights
5.	Protection of life, physical integrity and health
The principle of non-impingement on the body and the limits to the application of that principles. In particular on medical and similar interventions into the body. The duty of information. Consent to surgery.
6.	Protection of physical freedom
Protection limits. In particular on coercive hospitalisation.
7.	Protection of honour and reputation
Honour and its civil protection. Protection of reputation, especially good reputation in economic life. Forms of defamation of character, especially defamation through the media. The right to a response. The right to a correction, the right to publish the verdict.
8.	Protection of the name
9.	Protection of personal identity
10.	Protection of one’s own image, protection of secrecy of own correspondence and records, protection of own voice
11.	Protection of the private sphere
The concept and boundaries of the private sphere. In particular on the boundaries of protection of private sphere of persons who are of special interest to the public. Protection from the breach of the duty to keep professional secret. Protection of the private sphere and information systems. protection of data.
12.	Protection of mental integrity
13.	Protection of other non-proprietary goods of the person
14.	Contemporary tendencies of the development of personal rights

ENTERPRISE AND MANAGEMENT
Basic contents of the subject

1.	The definition of enterprise and management; 2. The development and modern achievements of the theory of enterprise; 3. The role of enterprise in contemporary conditions; 4. The pseudo-enterprise syndrome; 5. Uncertainty and risk of enterprise; 6. The problem of scantiness of enterprise; 7. The nature and purpose of management; 8. Functions of management; 9. Planning; 10. Organising; 11. Personnel appointments; 12. Leadership; 13. Control; 14. External surrounding, social responsibility and ethics of management; 15. Management models in the world; 16. Risk and risk management; 17. Business functions: productive function, marketing function, purchasing function, personnel function, financial function; 18. Business strategy.

RHETORIC AND LEGAL ARGUMENTATION

Basic contents of the subject

Since the indisputable influence of rhetoric (as an independent, conditionally put scientific discipline of oratory) on Roman law, as well as on the law of medieval and modern age is generally accepted in science, the subject-matter of this elective subject is the presentation of rhetoric as a skill or art (Greek téchne, Latin ars) of persuasion by public speaking in an appropriate manner, and to the determination of the scope and manner of influences of original (ancient) rhetorical teaching, or more precisely, the most important segments of their legal level, the development of law and jurisprudence. Therefore the curriculum consists of two parts:
I The outline of the historical development of rhetoric, emphasising the logical (argumentative) level
II  The outline of the system of ancient rhetoric
Within the first part, the subject-matter is presented as follows:
1.	Emergence and systematic building of rhetoric in ancient Greece
Beginnings of rhetoric in Sicily in the first half of the 5th century BC (rhetors Tisius and Korax in Syracuse); transfer to Atica in the second half of the 5th century BC /traditional, conceptual and technical rhetoric); further development in the sophist surrounding (Protagoras, Gorgias, Isocratus). The scope and character of the presented subject-matter (two basic trends in rhetoric; success above all; truth as the main aim and ideal of rhetoric).
Plato’s polemical attitude towards the determination of rhetoric in his time. The criticism of the sophist oratory practice and theory (in the dialogues Sophist, Protagoras, Gorgias and Phaedrus). The attempt to establish new rhetoric as a science of truthful speaking or espistema in Plato’s meaning (in the dialogue Phaedrus).
Aristotle’s tendency to connect the sophist refinement with Plato’s emphasis on rhetoric in the service of the truth. Aristotle’s systematic writing Rhetoric is an attempt to establish rhetoric as a special skill similar to dialectics. Aristotle’s interpretation of the term téchne. Aristotle’s logical writing (under the collective title Organon) and understanding of dialectics as  a logic of lower order (logica minor). Subordinate status of the system presented in Rhetoric (proofs, style, order) in his concept of rhetoric as a branch of dialectics. Making logical (dialectic) means of persuasion pivotal (with the comparative usage of the means of psychological and ethical-psychological nature) among the rhetorical, so-called technical proofs. The determination of the place and role of strictly legal, judicial evidence (so-called non-technical proof).
The rhetorical textbook by Hermagoras (2nd – 1st ct. BC) – addition and correction of Aristotle’s rhetorical system. Emphasis on oratory in court and logical means of persuasion; the first systematic analysis (classification) of typical moot questions (Greek stazeis; Latin status). The concept of status as the central argumentation point; selection of arguments according to different status types – the beginning of the development of the term of relevant evidence. Complete neglect of strictly legal evidence.
2.	Reception of rhetoric in republican Rome and its development in the Empire era
Reception of Hermagoras’ rhetoric system in the first Roman rhetorical works; Rhetorica ad Herrenium by an unknown author and De invention by young Cicero (both from the beginning of the 1st ct. BC)
Cicero’s rhetorical works as the synthesis of Aristotle’s and Hermagoras’ rhetorical systems. Cicero’s development as a theoretician of rhetoric: focus on the technical aspect of oratory in De inventione; emphasising philosophical (ethical), psychological and other aspects of oratory in De oratore and Orator; emphasising once again the logical level in Topica. Classifications and theoretical analysis of typical moot questions (status) in aforementioned works. 
Rhetorical works in the imperial era and the analysis (without significant innovations) of the argumentative issues. Quintilian’s extensive rhetorical-pedagogical work Institution oratoria (the end of the 1st ct. BC) as an attempt to rely on Roman law while making the concept of moot questions (probation inartificiales v. probationes artificiales). So-called rhetores Latini minores (2nd – 4th ct.) as mere transmitters of Cicero’s and Quintilian’s rhetorical teaching on argumentation. Greek rhetor Hermogen from Tars (2nd ct.) and the elaboration of Hermagoras’ teaching of statuses (the innovation is the teaching of so-called capitula).
3.	Greek and Latin rhetoric in Middle Ages
The importance of rhetoric in the education of upper members of medieval society: maintenance of rhetorical i.e. rhetorical-dialectic tradition in late Byzantine and medieval didactic-encyclopaedic writing (Martian Capela, Boethius, Isidor of Seville); acceptance of the distinction between technical and non-technical evidence in Quintilian’s terminological variant (probationes artificiales and probationes inartificiales). 
Reciprocal influence of rhetoric, dialectics and procedural legal science in the sphere of the argumentation study during Renaissance and late Middle Ages; Classicist rhetoric (17th – 18th ct.) and suppression of the rhetoric-dialectic tradition under the influence of the Cartesian teaching in philosophy (Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Vico, Hume, Kant); main European discussions on rhetoric in the 18th century (Ward, Sheridan, Lawson, Smith, Cambell, Blair, Whately) and the first American books on rhetoric.
4.	Rhetoric and modern age
Rhetorical revival as an attempt to revive the rhetorical studies in the 20th century (manifesto: New Rhetorics from 1967), due to the need to live in the most rhetorical of all times; the emergence of the new rhetoric school (Richards, Burk, Perelman, Olbrechts-Tytec) and its development of the new, neo-classical rhetorical theory; Perelman’s attempt to establish a general argumentation theory on the traditions of ancient rhetoric i.e. topics (Aristotle’s), distinguishing between argumentation and formal evidence (arguments: quantitative, qualitative and those that help to realise the effect). Critical theories of the 20th century (semiotics, structuralism, Marxism, Anglo-American new criticism, new historicism). 
The second part of the program provides an overview of the rhetorical system – both on the theoretical level contained in the most important rhetorical works (Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian), and on the practical level, contained primarily in individual (primarily Cicero’s) speeches in court (In Verrem; Pro Cluention; Pro Sex; Roscius Amerino; Pro Murena and others), according to the following order:
1.	Tasks of orators (officia oratoris) i.e. stages of the speech preparation: inventio – dispositio (ordo naturalis and ordo articialis) – elocutio (aptum or decorum; latinitas; perspicuitas; genera dicendi – memoria – pronuntiatio actio
2.	Subject of the speech (materia; intellectio) and types of oratory (genus deliberativum – genus demonstrativum – genusiudicale)
3.	Parts of the speech (partes orationis): exordium (proemium or principium; insinuatio) – narratio (propositio; digressio) – probatio (or argumentatio) – confirmatio and confutatio – peroratio (enumeratio; delectare, movere)
4.	Types of arguments (probationes inartificiales and probationes artificiales) and their origins (loci or topoi/ a persona and loci a re)
5.	Functional effects of the speech: docere and probare; delectare and conciliare; movere and concitare
6.	Style of oratory or types of oratory ornaments: in individual words (ornatus in verbius singulis) – antiquitas, fiction and verbum translatum; in sentences (ornatus in verbis coniunctis) – figurae verborum, figurae sententiae, compositio
7.	Exercise of oratory (exercitatio)

RHETORIC AND LAW

Basic contents of the subject

Oratory
What is oratory (culture of speaking, culture by speaking)
Individuality of orators – divisions according to: theory of literature, aesthetics, poetics, linguistics (grammar, phonetics), logic, psychology, acting (dramatic speech), law
Why oratory – meaning, justification of speech, why oratory in particular professions
Types of modern speeches – lecture, polemic, debate, discussion, interview, poetry reciting, anchoring, survey, reportage, ad hoc speech, dramatic speech, eulogy, speech in some professions – primarily speech by priests, politicians, lawyers, speech connected with individual jobs/roles etc.
Scheme of oratory and speech
Time of speech. Orator – audience. Etiquette in speech. Visible touches. 
Appropriateness/inappropriateness of the tone of voice, mimicry, gesture. Special characteristics according to conditions – place of speech, manner, type of speech, foreseeable and unforeseeable interruptions, possible and admissible, speech/conversation, speaker/public, auxiliary means of the orator. Knowing how to listen to a speech.
Speech. Speech – content – topic (standards/selection; general, free style, ordered, personal, professional etc; ideas, messages, humour, prototypes, experience – examples, disputes, meaning/scope)
Speech – form – preparing a speech/constituent parts of the form (introduction, proposition, classification, narration; claims, reasoning, conclusions); written speech, oral speech; the scope of speech and the time of speech; speech and foreign languages; logical, grammar, poetic, emotional, phraseology of speech, quoting others etc.
Special characteristics of speech – personality of the speaker according to the type of speech/mediation. The orator. Morality and deontology of the orator, responsibility for public speech. Education – relevance of the orator. Voice – orthophonics (correct, good voice; inappropriate pitch, fullness, loudness, timbre); orthoepy (correct, good pronunciation, enunciation-articulation, breathing pauses, tempo (sweep-duration, speed), rhythm (stroke), accentuation
Body language – gesture, mimicry
Knowing the speech (text)
Orator’s personal style (sense, sensibility, passion-eros)
Impression of the speech and orator as a whole (moral-deontological, in regards of the contents, form, visibly and auditory, aesthetic etc)
How to acquire oratory and promote oratory
Oratory in the change of times – classics of oratory, different courses of oratory, modern oratory
Rhetoric and law
Linguistic in law. Logic in law – logic, ‘legal logic’, logic applied in law
Logic and rhetoric – dialectics and rhetoric, logic and rhetoric. The argumentation theory. Features of conclusion and argumentation in law. ‘Argumentation in law’ – experience in law
‘Argumentation in law’ – tasks and roles in the legal profession

SOCIAL POLICY

Basic contents of the subject

Theories of social policy and social (welfare) state
History of the social state development
Typology of social states and social regimes
The development of social states in the countries in transition
The European social model
The social welfare policy, the principle of subsidiarity and social study of the Catholic Church
Social insurance: old-age pensions, health, employment
Family policy
Housing policy
Mixed social policy, civil society and non-profit sector
Comparative social policy in the developed countries, countries in transition and in Croatia

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

Basic contents of the subject

i.	The definition and spheres of social psychology. Methods of social-psychological research.
ii.	Social perception and cognition: Cognition of social surrounding (schemes, heuristics in judgement). Perception and judgement of others (creation of impressions, the attribution models, partiality in attributing, implicit theories of personality). Sources of mistakes in observation and assessment of persons.
iii.	Attitudes (the structure and functions, determinants of attitudes, theories of consistency, the relation of attitudes and behaviour). Change of attitude.
iv.	Interpersonal relations: Aggressive behaviour (theoretical explanations; situational determinants). Pro-social behaviour and altruism (theoretical explanations; situational determinants). Non-verbal communication.  
v.	Processes within the group: The formation and structure of the group. Group cohesion and norms. Membership in the group and social identity. Social categorisation. Group dynamics and roles. The influence of the group on the behaviour of the individual. Social pressure and conformism. Yielding and obeying authority. The diffusion of responsibility. Leadership and power. Decision-making in the group.
vi.	Processes within the group: Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination. Causes of stereotypes and prejudice and the manners of changing them.

SOCIOLOGY OF LAW 

Basic contents of the subject

The concept of legal sociology (sociology of law)
The relation between sociology and jurisprudence; Jurisprudence, law and social sciences; sociology of law; the relation between sociology of law and sociology; subject-matter of sociology of law
Theoretical foundations of legal sociology 
Eugen Erlich; Marxism; Max Weber; American legal realism; Georges Gurvitch; New understanding of Marxism; Niklas Luhmann; Roberto Unger; Critical theory of law; Richard Posner
Empirical foundations of legal sociology 
The research of the legal profession: origin, selection, reputation, career; Organisation of the judicial profession; Economic analysis of law
Law as a social phenomenon: historical and comparative perspective
Different legal traditions; Revolutions in law
The legal profession
The crisis of legal education; the judiciary, the legal profession
Law, morality, culture
The relation between culture and law; Historical law school; Legal culture
Law and social control
Deviancy and delinquency; Social determination of the punishment; Institutions of social control
Law and politics
The legislative process; Courts and judicial authority; Lawyers in policy making
Conflict resolution
Informal conflict resolution; Mediation; Legal customs
Law and social change
The instrumental concept of law; Legislature; Trans-national law

SOCIOLOGY OF ADMINISTRATION

Basic contents of the subject

The development of sociology of administration
The emergence of sociology of administration and its position in the system of administrative sciences. Specific features of sociology of administration and its relation to general sociology. The relation of sociology of administration, political sociology and sociology of law. Max Weber’s theory of bureaucracy. The classical school of administrative technique. The school of “human relations”. Functionalist criticism of Weber’s bureaucratic model (dysfunction of bureaucracy). The criticism of rationality of organisation. Modern perspectives in sociology of administration: theory of decision-making, theory of power and domination, theory of exchange, cybernetic theory, theory of system. Post-modern theoretical approaches: theory of communication, cultural approach, institutional and new institutional approach, new evolutionism, theory of determinist chaos, feminist approach etc.

Administrative organisation as a social system
The individual in an organisation. Behaviour, role, conflict of roles. Motives, needs, interests, values. Theories of motivation and models of motivation. 
Group behaviour in the organisation. Individual motives and group goals. Cohesion and control in the group. Communication in small groups. Leadership and leadership styles in the group. Participation and productivity in the group.
Organisational structure. Formal and informal structure. The influence of size, technology, surrounding, culture and communication on the organisation structure. Dysfunction of hierarchical structure. The theory of the development of co-operative relations. New structural forms.
Power in organisation. The concept of influence and power. Foundations and types of power. Intensity, sphere and scope of power. Control of uncertainty as a source of power in the organisation. Research of power in the organisation.
Conflict in the organisation. The concept and types of conflicts. Different views on conflicts. Conflict and co-operation. Manners of conflict resolution. Contemporary theoretical models and empirical research of conflicts.
Decision-making in the organisation. The concept and kinds of decision-making. The classic model of decision-making and its criticism. Formalised decision-making processes. Contemporary descriptive decision-making models.
Communications in the organisation. Communication channels. Communication system and communication network. Characteristics of the communication network. Communication styles and practice. Communication and power. Communication and governance. Communication and management.
Organisational culture. Types of organisational culture. Organisational culture and communications. Organisational culture and public management.
Leadership in the organisation. Theoretical basis of management. Management in public administration. Functions, role and styles of managers.
Differentiation and pluralism of the approach to the study of administrative organisations. Pluralism of approaches as a theoretical and practical advantage.

Public administration in social surrounding
The relation between the public administration and citizens. The development of the relation between the public administration and citizens. The differentiation of the role of citizens towards the administration (subject, source of power, user, associate, consumer of public services). Public quality of administration. The doctrine of public relations and its application in public administration (spokesperson as a new administrative function, the administration and media etc). The participation of citizens in the work, creation of public policies and administrative decisions. Organisation of citizens in the relations with the public administration. Civil society. Public perception and public opinion of the state administration, public services and local self-government.
The administration in local community. The concept of local community. Local identifications and local self-government. Urbanisation and administration (the process of stratification and segmentisation). The influence of urbanisation on decentralisation. Regionalism, regionalisation and multi-level governance.
The role of administration in the political system. Ruling political parties and public administration. Public administration in the democratic political system. The administration as the footing of the non-democratic government. Political control of the administration.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

Basic contents of the subject

Introduction. Health impairment and death.
Mechanical injuries. Injuries of the skull and brain. Vital reactions and some general consequences of mechanical injuries. Asphyxial injuries. Physical injuries. Nutritive injuries. Psychical injuries. Bacterial injuries.
Toxicology. Tanatology.
Scientific disciplines that deal with criminal offences and their perpetrators. Expert and giving expert opinion according to the Criminal Procedure Act. Assessment of the gravity of physical injury.
Pregnancy. Illegal termination of pregnancy. Infanticide.
Criminal offences against sexual freedom and morality.
Criminal liability of physicians. Basic medical criminal science. Suicide. Giving expert opinion in traffic accidents.
Some issues of medical ethics.

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

Basic contents of the subject

The concept of forensic psychology. The development and methods of forensic psychology. Characteristics of the scientific study of human psychology. 
Psychological aspects of testimony – perception, memory, deposition. Specific features of the testimony of traumatised witnesses. Testimony of children. Techniques for the improvement of memory in the function of quality testimony. Cognitive interview. Psychological factors of the credibility of the testimony. Criteria to evaluate the credibility of the testimony.
Psychological aspects of decision-making in criminal proceedings. Efficient communication.
Selected topics from forensic and pathological psychology.

INTERNAL MARKET OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

Basic contents of the subject

I.	The concept and development of the EU internal market
II.	Market freedoms according to the European Union Agreement and in the European Court practice
i.	freedom of the mobility of goods
ii.	freedom of providing services
iii.	freedom of mobility of workers
iv.	freedom of the capital movements
III.	Social dimension of internal market
IV.	Boundaries of market freedoms
i.	political rights as the limitation of market freedoms
ii.	social rights as the limitation of market freedoms
V.	The evolution of the European citizenship concept
i.	the European Court practice
ii.	the European Union citizenship according to the Agreement on the acceptance of the European Constitution