The 3rd edition of the Handbook for Legal Theory (authors: L. Burazin, M. Krešić, I. Tucak) has been published by Naklada Breza.
The Handbook presents basic concepts suitable for describing and analyzing law using examples from Croatian legislation and case law. It illustrates, through concrete examples, various types of legal norms, subjective rights, constitutional court techniques (such as constitutional overinterpretation, conforming statutory interpretation, and balancing of principles), normative hierarchies, methods for resolving antinomies (lex posterior, lex superior, lex specialis), interpretation techniques, legal arguments (such as the ordinary meaning of words, legislative intent, a contrario, analogy, dissociation), legal construction techniques, and schemas for analyzing judicial reasoning.

The Handbook relies on analytical tools from R. Guastini’s book The Syntax of Law, Naklada Breza, 2025 (5th ed.).

The Handbook can be purchased via the publisher’s website (https://naklada-breza.hr/pravo/prirucnik-za-teoriju-prava-3-izdanje/).

The 3rd legal theory student conference organized by the Croatian IVR section will be held in Zagreb on 9 May 2025, 8:50 am – 5:45 pm, Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, room 3. Online attendance is possible at: https://meet.google.com/xdv-fkru-wsx
For more information please see the conference programme.

K. E. Himma (Legal Theory Department, Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb) published The Practical Otiosity of Exclusionary Reasons in the Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 37(2) 2024, pp. 457 – 473

Abstract

One of Joseph Raz’s most influential contributions to legal philosophy is the Exclusionary Thesis, according to which any prescription that counts as mandatory is identical with an exclusionary reason that bars acting on certain reasons favoring noncompliance. This essay argues that exclusionary reasons are otiose in the sense there is no deliberative work they are ever needed to do under objective norms of practical reasoning.

The book is based on presentations and discussions at the special workshop “The Concept of Legal Consciousness” held in Bucharest, Romania, on 7 July 2022, as part of the 30th Biennial World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). The workshop focused on the importance of this concept for legal theory, legal sociology and legal psychology (“psychology and law”). The book consists of fourteen contributions, divided into four thematic parts, dealing with the following topics: the concept of law, the methodology of legal science, the role of legal consciousness in legal theory and legal sociology, adjudication, constitutionalisation, modification of the legal system and deliberate normative change.

Obavijest o natječaju objavljena je na: https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/oglasi/o8389173.html

Objavljen je članak L. Burazin, M. Keršić, Kritička analiza Guastinijeva shvaćanja sukoba između ustavnih prava i tehnike odvagivanja, Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Rijeci, vol. 45, br. 3, 491-517 (2024). Članak je dostupan na: https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php/en/clanak/467729

The Zagreb Legal Theory Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Marianela Delgado Nieves as Research and Teaching Assistant in Legal Theory. Marianela graduated from UNAM (Mexico), obtained her master’s degree in evidential reasoning from the University of Girona (Spain) and University of Genova (Italy), and is currently doing her PhD on evidential reasoning at the University of Girona. Welcome to our Department, Marianela!

U Zborniku Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu, Vol. 74 No. 3, 2024., objavljen je Burazinov kritički osvrt na knjigu istaknutoga suvremenog njemačkog pravnog filozofa Norberta Hoerstera, Što je pravo? Temeljna pitanja filozofije prava, Naklada Breza, 2024.