History of serbian law

Pre-requisites: Regular attendance at consultations and class, writing papers, active participation in working with texts.

Course objectives: Introducing students to the history of law in the middle ages and examining the legislative activity of serbian rulers from Stefan Nemanja to despot Stefan Lazarevic.

Course description: Theoretical component: class will consist mainly of lectures on the development of serbian law and its institutions. Practical component: there will be a few labs in which we will examine the most important legal texts.

Learning Outcomes: Students will have basic knowledge of legislative activity of serbian rulers during the middle ages.

Literature/Reading:

• Leksikon srpskog srednjeg veka, Beograd 1999.
• R. Mihaljčić, Zakoni u starim srpskim ispravama, Beograd 2006.
• S. Novaković, Zakonik Stefana Dušana cara srpskog, Beograd 1898, 2004, reprint
• T. Taranovski, Istorija srpskog prava u nemanjićkoj državi 1-4, Beograd 1931-34, 2002, reprint
• A. Solovjev, Zakonik cara Dušana 1349. i 1354, Beograd 1980.
• R. Mihaljčić, Vojnički zakon, Zbornik FF 12 -1, Beograd 1974.
• N. Radojčić, Zakon cara Stefana Dušana 1349. i 1354, Beograd 1960.
• Isti, Rudarski zakon despota Stefana Lazarevića, Beograd 1962.
• Đ. Đekić, Zakonodavna delatnost kralja Milutina, Ruma 2001.