Legal Clinic in Public Law

Study

Cycle

Year

Semester

Type

ECTS

LAW/GENERAL MAJOR

optional

3.00

Subject

Legal Clinic in Public Law

Teachers

Associates

Content

Indicative syllabus content: 
1. The concept and scope of public law
2. Fundamental principles of public law
3. Theories of Public Interaction
4. Constitution
5. Division of authority
6. Interpretation of public authority decisions
7. Conduct of public authority
8. Efficiency and scope of public authority control mechanisms
9.  Public authority responsibility outside the courts
10. Transparency and Access to Information
11. The Role of Judicial Authority
12. Methods of analyzing and arguing public authority decisions
13. Socio-economic environment in the function of public authority
14. Regulation and taxation of public goods
15. Comparative Public Law

Goal

The aim of the course is to introduce students with legal order in the domain of Public Law exploring the role, competences and interaction between executive, legislative and judicial power. Students will be also introduced with the nature and structure of legislation adoption procedures and  how public authority is legally structured and constrained. Aforementioned is going to be elaborated in correlation with the role of main subjects involved (individuals, governmental authorities, public institutions, public/private enterprises).

Teaching methods

Interactive lectures through presentations and discussion.

Knowledge testing methods

Exam-oral and in written

Competences

Students will be able to critically observe fundamental concepts of public law. Besides, students are offered the possibility of research, analysis and practice through various approaches to interpretation of legal acts. Students will also improve skills regarding legal research, legal analysis and legal correspondence.

Literature

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2003.
3. S. Lilić/M. Drenovak, Posebno upravno pravo, Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u
Beogradu–Centar za izdavaštvo i informisanje, Beograd, 2010.
4. Comparative administrative law, S. Rose-Ackerman (ur.) Yale University USA/ P. L.
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10. R. J. Spitzer, Saving the Constitution from Lawyers How legal training and law reviews
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13. C. A. Beard, “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States”,
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14. J. E. Stiglitz, Economics of the Public Sector, 3rd ed., W.W. Norton&Company, New
York, 2000.
15. Bénassy-Quéré, B. Coeuré, P. Jacquet, J. Pisani-Ferry, Economic policy: theory and
practice, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010.
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New York, 2000.
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Cambridge, 2003.
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19. T. Persson/G. Tabellini, “The Economic Effect of Constitutions”, The MIT Press,
Cambridge, 2003