Slaven Bilić, Mario Ančić, Ivan Malenica... all graduates of the Faculty of Law, University of Split
"Our weapons, science or hiding cannot protect us, but the law and laws do" Albert Einstein
WHAT EXACTLY IS LAW?
Law is the totality of legal rules, principles and institutes that regulate relations in a certain social community. In other words, being a lawyer means reducing concrete real life situations to legal norms.
FACULTY OF LAW IN SPLIT AND STUDY PROGRAMS IT IMPLEMENTS
The Faculty of Law in Split was founded in 1961. Its launching revived the rich tradition of law and its practice in the Mediterranean areas of Croatia, which created space for creativity that has historically adorned the Dalmatia’s intellectual elite.
From its very beginning, certain specificities (relating to study programs) classified the Faculty of Law in Split among modern higher education institutions. Its ‘differentia specifica’, regarding other law studies, was particularly evident in limited number of students, intensified teaching process, its diversity and mandatory student participation in realizing those processes. Today, at the Faculty of Law in Split, study programs are modernized and harmonized with the labor market needs annually, and student requirements are taken into account. All students are maximally involved in mock trials at the faculty, also in internships in partner institutions.
STUDY PROGRAMS
UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE
Integrated undergraduate and graduate university study
The academic title students acquire completing the study: Master of Laws (LLM).
Competences acquired upon graduation
A Master of Laws independently performs judicial functions holder’s tasks (in courts, at all levels and specializations, the State Attorney's Office, or as a misdemeanor judge), and other jobs in these bodies; independently works as a lawyer; manages an administrative procedure, drafts and processes all legal acts and performs other legal affairs in state administration or local government (bodies); runs all legal affairs in companies or other legal entities, associations, trade unions and organizations; runs legal affairs in diplomatic and consular services, draft international agreements, offers legal assistance to clients, judicial or other institutions, etc.
Specialist administrative study
Academic title acquired upon completing study: bachelor in administration.
Competences acquired upon completion of studies
Bachelors acquire general and specific knowledge and skills necessary for the competent and professional performance of tasks in administrative bodies, the judiciary and economic entities dealing with administration; expert performance of administrative jobs, assisting in administrative proceedings, professional drafting and processing appropriate administrative acts and performing other jobs in state administration and local government, independent performance of tasks in judicial bodies, assistance in running legal affairs in companies, other societies, associations, trade unions and organizations; providing legal assistance to clients or assisting judicial and other bodies.
Specialist graduate professional study of administration
Completing the specialist graduate professional administrative study, students acquire the academic title of public administration specialist and related competencies.
Knowledge and skills acquired completing this study are both administrative-legal and -technical. The wide knowledge that can only be acquired with appropriate and systematic education enables employees in state administration, public services, and other state or of local government bodies, to solve diverse and complex problems that come up in their daily work, while managing different social affairs.
POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
Medical law
Completing the postgraduate specialist study of "Medical Law", one acquires the academic title Specialists in medical law (univ. spec.) and related competencies.
Graduates will be able to perform complex and demanding tasks of higher levels of responsibility in health, justice, public administration (on local, regional, national and international levels), professional associations, educational institutions, institutes, etc., as independent experts in medical law.
Completing the postgraduate specialist study of "Medical Law", one gets 120 ECTS credits.
Sports law
Completion the postgraduate specialist study of "Sports Law", one acquires the academic title Specialist in sports law and related competences.
Graduates will be able to perform complex and demanding tasks of higher levels of responsibility in sports, that is the field of sports including justice, public administration (on local, regional, national and international levels), professional associations, educational institutions, institutes, or as independent experts in sports law, etc.
Completing the postgraduate specialist study of "Sports Law", one earns 120 ECTS credits.
STUDY OF LEGAL SCIENCES (DOCTORAL STUDY)
Academic or professional title one acquires completing this study: Doctor of Science in the field of law (Ph.D.).
The postgraduate doctoral study of law ensures learning outcomes of the highest level and, accordingly, related competencies that doctoral students develop during their studies.
Purpose of this study is to prepare students, in the preparatory part of their studies, drafting and defending doctoral dissertations, for independent scientific and research work in law, and it includes methodology of legal science.
Completing the study, or obtaining a doctorate of science in law, enables the student: to build an academic career at one scientific or teaching institutions, to perform highly specialized jobs in the legal profession, both private and public sector; to continue training at the postdoctoral level; to independently come up with and conduct research in the field of legal sciences and develop one's own professional identity and integrity; to manage scientific - research activities within projects or research teams; to promote excellence in the academic and professional context, in the field of legal sciences, within a knowledge-based society; to develop awareness concerning professional, ethical and social responsibility for conducted research, regarding its possible negative consequences; to face new challenges in society and economy, as well as apply results of scientific research, in the field of law, thus contributing to social and economic development.
Completing the postgraduate doctoral study of law, one acquires 180 ECTS credits.
A LITTLE MORE ON – WHY CHOOSE UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT’S FACULTY OF LAW?
The Faculty of Law in Split is part of University of Split’s family, which, according to Times Higher Education 2021, occupied a place between 801-1000. on the world universities’ ranking list and was, for the first time, the only Croatian university to be ranked in 10 of the 17 sustainable development goals, which ranks it among the top 4% in the world.
• Excellent university professors, associates and experts from the practical world participate in the scientific-teaching process at the Faculty of Law.
• Faculty of Law professors hold numerous awards for their work, are members of scientific associations and groups of experts.
• For their successful study, in addition to professors’ rich scientific and research knowledge, students also have other contents at their disposal: computer room, modern teaching aids and a rich library with a well-equipped reading room.
• The Faculty of Law publishes Proceedings, an international peer-reviewed scientific journal.
• The Faculty is in charge of ten scientific projects funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports.
• In order to improve scientific and research work, professional, teaching and providing expertise, as well as connecting its work with practice, there are five centers acting within the Faculty, and another one is being established.
• Developed international cooperation - goals in the field of increasing competencies in teaching and scientific research are realized in various bilateral and multilateral activities, particularly cooperating with similar scientific teaching institutions in Europe and abroad, participating in international projects and programs, encouraging international teacher, associate and students mobility, as well as with memberships in international associations.
• Faculty of Law in Split is one of the founders of the South East European Law School Network (SEELS), which primarily serves as a platform for multilateral project cooperation with similar institutions in Croatia and the wider region.
• Faculty of Law in Split’s Library has approximately 120,000 volumes of monographs and serial publications. Loaning from other libraries, the library also makes available to its users literature that it does not have. The library is a member of Association of Librarians of Legal and Related Libraries of Southeast Europe (SEALL) and has a well-equipped reading room that seats 33 people.
Last but not least, Faculty of Law in Split, as its name suggests, lives and acts in Croatia’s most vibrant city and cannot be separated from it. In other words, studying law in Split means breathing in this passionate Mediterranean city with full lungs, being a part of it, leaving your mark on it and taking a part of it with you when you leave… Believe me, that is saying something.
For more information, visit www.pravst.unist.hr or feel free to contact the Faculty of Law in Split’s office at +385 (21) 393 500.
Acta, non verba, and see you at the Faculty of Law, University of Split!