Women's legal history - Croatian tradition and the European context

Study:
Code:	127643
ECTS:	4.0
Course coordinators:	prof. dr. sc. Mirela Krešić
Lecturers:	izv. prof. dr. sc. Ivan Kosnica - Lectures izv. prof. dr. sc. Dunja Milotić - Lectures

Literature:
Krešić, Mirela; Entitlement of Female Descendants to Property of Croatian Communal Household; Journal on European History of Law, 2011., br. 2 (2011), str. 73-85 Krešić, Mirela; Zakonsko nasljeđivanje bračnih drugova prema OGZ-u na hrvatsko-slavonskom pravnom području; Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, 2010., br. 2 (2010), str. 527-552 Krešić, Mirela; Intestate Succession of Female Descendants According to the Austrian General Civil Code in the Croatian-Slavonian Legal Area 1853-1946; Belgrade Law Review, 2010, br. 3 (2010), str. 121-136 Krešić, Mirela; The Matrimonial Law of the Muslims of Croatia 1916-1941; Beck Varela, L; Gutierrez Vega, P.; Spinosa, A. (ur.), Crossing Legal Cultures (2009), str. 365-380 Dobrovšak, Ljiljana; Ženidbeno (bračno) pravo u 19. stoljeću u Hrvatskoj; Croatica Christiana Periodica, vol. 29., br. 56. (2005), str. 77-104 Margetić, Lujo; Hrvatsko srednjovjekovno obiteljsko i nasljedno pravo; Zagreb: Narodne novine (1996), str. odabrane Janeković Roemer, Zdenka; Rod i grad: Dubrovačka obitelj od XIII do XV stoljeća; Zagreb: Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (1994), str. odabrane Lonza, Nella; Dvije izgubljene duše: čedomorstva u Dubrovačkoj republici (1667-1808); Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku (2001), str. 261-303 Grozdanić, Velinka; Ritossa, Dalida; Povijesni razvoj kaznenopravnog statusa žena; Grozdanić, Velinka (ur.), Kada žena ubije - interdisciplinarni pristup, Rijeka: Pravni fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci (2011), str. 15-92 Karbić, Marija; Žene s druge strane zakona. Nekoliko primjera iz srednjovjekovnih gradskih naselja u međurječju Save i Drave; Miljen, Suzana (ur.), Na rubu zakona: društveno i pravno neprihvatljiva ponašanja kroz povijest, Zagreb: Društvo studenata povijesti Lucius (2009), str. 51-64 Mogorović Crljenko, Marija; Nepoznati svijet istarskih žena: položaj i uloga žene u istarskim komunalnim društvima: primjer Novigrada u 15. i 16. stoljeću; Zagreb: Srednja Europa (2006), str. odabrane
Optional literature:
Adamović, Mirjana; Žene i društvena moć; Plejada; Institut za društvena istraživanja u Zagrebu (2011), str. [object Object] Boisseau, Tracy Jean; Thomas, Tracy A.; Feminist legal history: essays on women and law; New York: New York University Press (2011), str. odabrane Duby, Georges; Vitez, žena i svećenik: ženidba u feudalnoj Francuskoj; Split: Logos (1987), str. 215 Čepulo, Dalibor; Hrvatska pravna povijest u europskom kontekstu od srednjeg vijeka do suvremenog doba; Zagreb: Pravni fakultet u Zagrebu (2012), str. odabrane Eisner, Bertold; Privatno-pravni položaj žene po današnjem pravu Jugoslavije i njegovo uređenje u jedinstvenom Građanskom zakoniku za Jugoslaviju; Zagreb: Globus (1934), str. odabrane Feldman, Andrea (ur.); Žene u Hrvatskoj: ženska i kulturna povijest; Zagreb: Institut "Vlado Gotovac" (2004), str. odabrane Gross, Mirjana; "Nevidljive" žene; Erasmus, časopis za kulturu demokracije, 3 (1993), str. 56-64 Janeković Roemer, Zdenka; Maruša ili suđenje ljubavi: bračno-ljubavna priča iz srednjovjekovnog Dubrovnika; Zagreb: Algoritam (2007), str. 327 Apostolova Maršavelski, Magdalena; Quarta puellaris po običajnom pravu Turopolja (13. - 16. stoljeće); Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, 1992., br. 2 (1992), str. 141-149 Mill, James Stuart; Podređenost žena; Zagreb: Naklada Jesenski i Turk (2000), str. 112 Mogorović Crljenko, Marija; Druga strana braka; Zagreb: Srednja Europa (2012), str. odabrane Novak, Zrinka; Neki aspekti pravnog položaja žena u Vinodolskom zakonu, Senjskom i Krčkom statutu; Historijski zbornik, god. LXII, br. 2 (2009), str. 315-343 Perrot, Michelle; Moja povijest žena; Zagreb: Ibis grafika (2009), str. 221 Prlenda, Sandra; Žene i prvi organizirani oblici praktičnog socijalnog rada u Hrvatskoj; Revija socijalne politike, god. 12., br. 3-4 (2005), str. 319-332 Sperling, Jutta Gisela; Across the religious divide - Woman, Property and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800); New York - London: Routledge (2010), str. odabrane Pastović, Dunja; "Defect of sex": exclusion of women from jury service in Istria 1873-1918; Journal on European History of Law, 7 (2016), 1 (2016), str. 155-171

Description:

I. Introduction: contents of the course, methods and basic terminology relevant to the study of the legal status of women through the history of the Croatian areas and their European context (2h)

II. Regulation of the legal status of women in the Croatian legal areas until 1848
1. Medieval legal sources (collections of Croatian customary law, statutory laws of Dalmatian and Istrian towns, the Tripartitum) and socio-economic conditions
2. The status of women in private law (marriage, family, property relations in marriage, inheritance)
3. The status of women in criminal law (4h)

III. The legal status of women in the Croatian legal areas 1848-1918
1. Overview of the most significant social, economic and legal reforms relevant to the legal regulation of the status of women (2h)
2. The status of women in private law:
2.1. Legal capacity and capacity to contract; property rights; matrimonial property regime (2h)
2.2. Marriage; personal relations in marriage; family relations (parent-child) (2h)
2.3. Inheritance rights of widows and daughters (2h)
2.4. Communal household - the role and legal status of women (2h)
2.5. Workshop: case study - an example from the practice of a civil court (2h)
3. The status of women in criminal law: women as the perpetrators/victims/witnesses of a criminal offence (4h)
3.1. Workshop: case study - an example from the practice of a criminal court (2h)
4. Moving from the private to the public sphere (education and employment of women) (2h)

IV. Students' presentations (2h)

V. Repetitorium; Concluding remarks (2h)

Cognitive Skills:

Knowledge and understanding

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

- define basic concepts connected with the study of legal position of women in the past in Croatian areas and the European environment;

- recognise general characteristics of the regulation of individual legal systems in the past;

- explain characteristics of the regulation of the position of women in individual legal systems in the past;

- indicate specific characteristics of the legal regulation of the position of women in Croatian areas.

Application

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

- expose the origin and purpose of individual legal institutes characteristic for the regulation of the position of women;

- apply basic comparative law terminology in explaining the events, occurrences and processes relevant for regulation the position of women;

- interpret developmental processes in the legal regulation of the position of women in Croatian areas;

- use knowledge from history of law about the regulation of the position of women in concrete cases.

- assess the influence of the development of legal position of women in the European environment on the development in Croatian areas;

- compare the development of regulation of legal position of women in Croatian areas with adequate development in the European environment.

Analysis

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

- analyse legal sources that regulate the position of women in concrete legal and social environment;

- analyse cause-and-effect connection in the regulation of the position of women considering social-economic circumestances in individual historical periods;

- compare the development of regulation of the position of women in Croatian areas with adequate development in the Europeanenvironment.

Synthesis

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

- connect modern circumstances of the development of legal position of women with the development realised in previous legal systems;

- present individual legal solutions in the regulation of the position of women;

- connect the development of legal regulation of the position of women with adequate development in the European environment;

- propose solutions directed to the realisation of gender equality.

Evaluation

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

- compare to which extent de iure position of women matched her de facto position in the analysed period in Croatian areas;

- evaluate the solutions of legal regulation of position of women from the perspective of time in which they were adopted;

- assess tendencies of the development of Croatian legal system in the realisation of gender equality on the basis of current experience;

- conclude about the reasons for individual legal solutions and their adequacy considering social and economic circumstances of their adoptiona nd application.

Practical and Generic Skills:

After successfully completing the course, students will be able to better understand and critically evaluate basic concepts connected with the position of women in Croatian territories and countries of European environment, with the possibility of applying that knowledge to imprive the understanding of modern legal regulation and the position of women in society.

Matching Assessments to Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge is tested by previously prepared class participation and structured and argumented oral and written expression in (compulsory) workshops and (optional) presentation of a selected topic, as well as by oral examination that consists of testing the understanding of basic concepts and identification of developmental processes connected to the study of legal position of women and the comparison of the development in European countries and in Croatia, and the determination of this development by social, cultural and economic circumstances.

Consultations schedule:

Lecturer	Consultations	Location
izv. prof. dr. sc. Ivan Kosnica (Lectures)		Ćirilometodska 4, room soba 41 (2. kat)
izv. prof. dr. sc. Dunja Milotić (Lectures)		Ćirilometodska 4, room Ćirilometodska 4, soba 12A (dvorište)