Study:	Law - 2. semester
Code:	31813
ECTS:	4.0
Course coordinators:	prof. dr. sc. Zrinka Erent-Sunko doc. dr. sc. Miran Marelja doc. dr. sc. Ivan Obadić
Exam dates:	26. 06. 2023. 10. 07. 2023. 11. 09. 2023. Exam registration: Studomat

Literature:

Kurtović Šefko; Opća povijest prava i države 1; Autorska naklada (2005), str Kurtović Šefko; Opća povijest prava i države 2; Autorska naklada (2002), str Kurtović Šefko; Hrestomatija opće povijesti prava i države 1; Autorska naklada (1999), str Kurtović Šefko; Hrestomatija opće povijesti prava i države 2; Autorska naklada (2005), str

Description:

The historical development of individual states and their legal systems is impossible to understand without considering many factors. At the General History of Law and the State seminars, the characteristic features of individual states and individual legal systems are discussed, which are then compared in search of similarities or, more often, differences. To acquire quality legal education, students examine the reciprocal influence of the state and law in more detail. Still, with selected institutes and institutions from the General History of Law and the State course, other characteristic determinants of the development of law and the state belong to them, outside the basic, above all limited, material. This methodological approach allows, for example, for differences in the protection of socially vital interests and the purpose of punishment to be singled out and compared in several ancient state legal systems, including in the Middle Ages through the protection of land rights and missed periods of legal development. For this purpose, accepting the law as a means of communication within society, we primarily use selected legal acts and doctrines in our work. Reading and analysis of texts enable the gradual adoption of basic legal terminology, while seminar discussions on a given topic in issues from the earliest times (e.g. justification of the death penalty) to those that occur periodically (e.g. restriction of personal freedoms in extraordinary circumstances) for performances that are part of the profession. The original legal texts enable the interpretation of their provisions and the elaboration of their impact on social life, even though the legal-historical understanding of the act itself expands knowledge about the social characteristics of its development. At the same time, such an approach strengthens and deepens the knowledge of the legal norm and opens the door to independent and critical thinking that is necessary for the legal profession.

Cognitive Skills:

Knowledge and understanding

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

- define state and legal systems which are characteristic of individual historical periods;

- indicate and critically evaluate factors that influenced and formed state and legal systems from their origin until modern time;

- recognise causes, consequences and importance of certain historical events and processes in the development of the state and law;

- explain historical, social, economic and ideological essense of a certain state and law;

- identify some key developmental lines through longer periods of time for individual legal and state institutes;

- understand that modern legal and state systems are sometimes a result of long historical development, and that the knowledge about law should be upgraded on these foundations

- describe research methods which are the basis for scientific research in legal history.

 

Application

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

- interpret main trends and processes of historical development of law and state that are common to European and other important regions of the world;

- understand time (historical) dimension of the development of modern legal and state structures;

- compare similarities and differences between legal and state models and the dynamics of their changes through history;

- apply analystical and interpretative skills for understanding modern legal and state systems and their changes.

 

Analysis

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

- compare historical development of law and state in different regions of the world, their continuity and main changes that occurred in longer periods of time;

- indicate key concepts that help us understand historical trends of the development of law and state, as well as individual important events in this process;

- examine to what extend these trends were general or specific for individual countries or regions;

- connect political, social, economic and cultural factors and conditions from which such models and trends resulted.

 

Synthesis

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

- formulate characteristics of the process of building individual state models and legal systems in time and space;

- construct mutual influence and connection between legal systems starting from the basic structural unit, legal norm;

- build a structure of cause-and-effect development of law in time, and the influence of the development of the state and centralisation of state functions on public and private law, as well as the need for legal regulation of the relations between states;

- propose material and formal prerequisites for making legal rules and the origin of branches of law, as well as integral legal systems.

 

Evaluation

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

- compare different state models and legal systems in time, as well as their mutual interaction and the process of building these models and systems;

- select and ponder importance of individual legal rules, legal institutes and historical events as economic, sociological, ideological-philosophical foundations of modern states and legal systems of today;

- examine teleological determination and dynamics of the process of the development of law and state;

- evaluate the role of legal science for the formulation of legal rules, branches of law and legal systems.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Publicly present the learning outcomes;
• Communicate effectively in the public with clear arguments and taking into account different positions;
• Respect other people's views and reply to opposing opinions efficaciously;
• Work independently, but also to work as a part of a group with a sound attitude and awareness of the advantages and disadvantages of such work versus individual work.

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Connecting learning outcomes and assessment of knowledge

- through transitive testing in the form of perioodical preparation and revisions for examination determine assessment of individual outcomes in given moment;

- upgrade the knowledge of students by more complex learning outcomes, and systematically correct observed shortcomings, and prepare the students on modes of monitoring and evaluating assessment of individual learning outcomes

- by final testing in the form of written and oral examination determine the level of acquisition of individual learning outcomes within the course.

Consultations schedule:

• prof. dr. sc. Zrinka Erent-Sunko:

  Wednesday from 10am - 11.30am

  Location: Ćirilometodska 4, room 31
• doc. dr. sc. Miran Marelja:

  With a prior notice via email to mmarelja@pravo.hr

   

   

   

  Location: Ćirilometodska 4, room 49
• doc. dr. sc. Ivan Obadić:

  Tuesday from 14:00

  Location: Ćirilometodska 4, room 49