Organization of the “Court/Judicial Law” in Croatia and EU as a Synthesis of Civil-Commercial and Criminal Law
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The paper treats the problem of the existence of "court/judicial law" as a unity of civil-commercial and criminal law in Croatia and European Union. The "division" in the legal space of the Republic of Croatia and in the EU member states arose from the past and is basically the result of the specific caracter and ''political preference'' of the criminal justice system. However, the division into civil-commercial and criminal law is maintained in Croatian law and in European Union even now, either by inertia as a habit that is difficult to change, or (most likely) by individual interests within the judiciary and judicature. In a democratic civil society, not political but economic crime prevails, which cannot be followed and understood without knowledge of both civil-commercial and criminal law. Ongoing, mostly too slow and ineffective criminal proceedings in Croatia and EU (many of them in "specialized" courts of justice), fully confirm this thesis.
Author: Oliver Radolović
Institution: Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
Language: English
Topic: Criminal Law and Policy
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4408618485