COURSE TITLE: OUTLINE OF SLOVENE LEGAL HISTORY Bachelor course (for students in the final year of study) & Master course ECTS credits: 6 Lecturer: Vladimir Simič, Ph. D., Assistant Professor Contact: [email protected] Aims of the course: The course gives the foreign students some basic information on historical development of political units on present Slovenian territory as well as the most typical lines of development of the law in force in the same territory. Course syllabus: 1. The problem of Slovene legal history a. Slovene legal history or German (Austrian)/ Hungarian / Venetian (Italian) legal history b. Slovene legal history or legal histories of territories of present Slovenia c. The Slovene Law and the Slovenian Law 2. The territory of present Slovenia before the arrival of Slaves a. Prehistoric period b. Roman period c. Late antiquity 3. The law of Slovene territories in the Middle Ages a. Slovene territory in the Middle Ages b. Carinthians and Slovenes c. Political formations of Slaves in Eastern Alps d. The “State” of Carinthians? e. Administrative division of Slovene territories under Franks and the first legal norm in Slavic language f. Reorganisation of agrarian production and the consequences for Slovenes: changes of ethnic structure of the population and destruction of basic political units g. “Slovene“ provinces h. Urban and peasant autonomies 4. The early modern Age a. Reformation and Slovenes b. Translations of legal norms into Slovene c. Absolutism and autonomies 5. The modern age – the birth of a nation a. The end of feudal system b. Program “Unified Slovenia”: demands of constitutional character and Language Law c. The endeavour to introduce Slovene language as official language d. The autonomy of provinces and elections in the second half of the 19th century e. The division of Hapsburg monarchy 6. Slovenia in Yugoslavia a. Integration of Slovene territory into Yugoslavia b. The State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs c. Yugoslavia: its constitutions, administrative division, legal systems and unification of law d. Federalisation of Yugoslavia after 1945 e. Republic of Slovenia from 1945 f. The socialist legal system g. Legal systems after 1974 h. The new state: Republic of Slovenia from 1991 i. Epilogue Bibliography: . Janko Prunk, A Brief History of Slovenia, Ljubljana 2008 . Stane Granda, Slovenia, an historical overview, Ljubljana 2008 . Oto Luthar (ed.) The Land Between, A history of Slovenia, Frankfurt/M 2008 . Sergij Vilfan, Rechtsgeschichte der Slowenen, Graz 1968 Teaching methods: Prerequisites: Examination methods: .