The Department for Civil and Family Law and Legal Tradition of the Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, is implementing the project “Harmonization of the Private Law System with Contemporary Societal Developments: Between Legal Tradition and the Need for Inclusivity (PRIJUS)” (581-UNIOS-87), financed under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Source 581 – Recovery and Resilience Mechanism, Component C3.2: “Strengthening Research and Innovation Capacity”). The duration of the project is from 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2029, and is led by Branka Rešetar, Ph.D., Full Professor.
The project focuses on the analysis of Croatian civil, civil procedural, and family law in the context of contemporary social, technological, and challenges related to societal values. The research is grounded in the scientifically and practically identified gap between traditional legal institutions and the needs of contemporary society, including the legal culture, with particular emphasis on legal education.
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The aim of the project is to critically and interdisciplinarily examine selected institutions of Croatian private law in light of contemporary social, technological, and normative challenges.
To understand the law means to connect the past, the present, and the future.
The project undertakes an analysis of the legal and institutional barriers impeding the adaptation of the legal system, while concurrently exploring legal education and its role in cultivating a legal culture that promotes critical reasoning, ethical standards, and inclusivity.
Education shapes legal culture, and legal culture, in turn, shapes society.
Through an integration of legal-historical, doctrinal, comparative, and socio-theoretical approaches, the project advances evidence-based recommendations for legislative and institutional measures, aligned with established European and international best practices.
Law serves society most effectively when founded upon rigorous scientific insights and sound practice.
The project involves researchers from the fields of law, sociology, philosophy, and history, thereby strengthening an interdisciplinary approach and promoting collaborative interaction among distinct scientific disciplines.
The interdisciplinary integration of diverse scientific fields is indispensable for comprehensively understanding and effectively shaping the contemporary legal system.
Faculty of Law Osijek
The Department of Civil and Family Law and Legal Tradition is an organisational unit of the Faculty of Law Osijek, one of the constituent faculties of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. The Faculty of Law Osijek offers integrated undergraduate and graduate study programmes in law, as well as undergraduate and graduate programmes in social work and public administration, in addition to university specialist programmes, doctoral studies, and lifelong learning programmes. Scientific excellence and the international visibility of the Faculty are particularly highlighted through the implementation of several dozen research projects, the organisation of conferences, the pronounced research productivity of academic staff, as well as their academic mobility. Through contemporary study programmes and scientific research, the Faculty of Law Osijek significantly contributes to the development of legal theory and legal practice, as well as to their ongoing adaptation to social, technological, and value-based transformations.
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