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