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Project code: 5-03-222


Croatian State and Legal History and Its European Context


Main researcher: RADOVČIĆ, VESNA (39821)



Assistants
Type of research: basic
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/95.

Papers on project (total): 84
Papers on project quoted in Current Contents: 12
Institution name: Pravni fakultet, Zagreb (66)
Department/Institute: --
Address: Ćirilometodska 4
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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Phone: 385 (0)41-424-333
Fax: 385 (0)41-464-030

Summary: In order to obtain an all-inclusive and synthetic presentation of the Croatian state and legal history, the project foresees the research into the following important state and legal segments (through the eyes of their possible European context): medieval city statutes, their overall structure and content stratification; Croatian-Slavonian legal sources (Tripartitum by Verboczy, the Statute of Ilok and others) in regard to the same characteristics; the European medieval, the so called general law (ius commune) and its influence (reception) on the law of particular legal regions; property law, criminal law and other legal branches and institutes in their historical development; state and legal development of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia from 1848 to 1918 (focussing on the work of the Croatian Parliament - Sabor, and other governmental institutions); problems regarding the re-constituing of the Croatian statehood from 1918 - 1945 (in the State of Slovenians, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Yugolavia, etc.). Regarding the aforementioned aspect of analysis of the Croatian state and legal history, the project foresees the research into some general topics like the constituent elements of the European legal culture (the ancient, particularly Roman legal and other tradition, canon law, German, Slavic and other costumary laws, etc.).

Keywords: history of law, history of state, history of public institutions, constitutional tradition, Croatia, Europe, sources of law, reception, interpretation & evaluation

Research goals: The extremely rich and distinctive Croatian state and legal history has so far been the object of only very fragmentary research. It has either been limited to some particular regions, and state and political historical units or to very definite epochs and periods or it has referred to only some special matters and narrower legal areas, branches, fields, institutes, sources, etc. The literature that has to come out as a result of such a fragmentary research is still rather meagre and in the case of the one published before the establishment of independence of the Republic of Croatia, it is significantly encumbered with unnecessary ideologizing. Broadly speaking, the past research activities and the degree of the acquired scientific comprehension are far from satisfactory, let alone thorough. It is therefore very important to continue the research into the Croatian state and legal history, evaluating at the same time the credibility of the previous results on the one hand, and trying to fill the gaps in our understanding every segment of that history on the other. The final goal should be to soon create some preconditions for an all-inclusive and synthetic presentation of the Croatian state and legal history that would point out - and that is the expected result - its integrality and participation in the corresponding European events and in the formation of the European tradition in general.


COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Pravni fakultet u Splitu
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    City: 21000 - Split, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: Pravni fakultet u Rijeci
    Type of institution: Economical/Production
    City: 51000 - Rijeka, Croatia

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