The Livre au roi is the oldest of all the treatises that make up the Assizes of Jerusalem. The enactment of this codification was associated with the reign of King Amalric of Lusignan. The subject of research in this paper is an attempt to determine the moment of its adoption more precisely. Firstly, the legal features of the Livre au roi are pointed out. Then, it is indicated to the conflict between King Amalric and Ralph of Tiberias, which had a decisive influence on the enactment and on the content of this codification. Finally, the moment of the Livre au roi’s enactment is sharpened by pointing the peace treaties which King Amalric concluded with Sultan Al-Malik Al-Adil and the provisions of the codification which regulated the regency. The Livre au roi could have been enacted in 1200, 1204, or it was created in both of the mentioned years.

The paper examines the 1966 reform of the Yugoslav secret political police from the legal and operational perspectives, and assesses its outcome. The analysis spans from 1966 to 1980, concluding with the death of Josip Broz, as the country’s political landscape underwent substantial changes following his passing. The research hypothesis is that the reform of the Yugoslav secret political police was a failure. The examination includes political incentives for reform, the 1966 legislative reform and its legacy, the beginning of the reversal of the reform in 1971, and the full reversal starting in 1973. The hypothesis is confirmed. The crucial reason for the failure was the disappointment of the political elite with the reform results and their concerns, amid the political and economic liberalisation of the country, about preserving their monopoly on power. These concerns led to the re-bolshevisation of the country, killing the reform of the secret political police.

This paper discusses interim measures that can be ordered by Serbian arbitral tribunals and the possibility of their domestic enforcement. The introduction examines the legal framework for interim measures under Serbian law and the arbitration rules that govern the majority of arbitrations in Serbia. Subsequent chapters discuss the interpretation of the domestic legislation available to the courts and arbitrators in Serbia when facing legal gaps concerning interim measures. The best practices are identified by using comparative legal models, paving the way for optimal judicial and arbitral decisions and better legislative solutions in the future. In the second chapter, the limits of the arbitral tribunal’s jurisdiction to order interim measures are determined based on a hypothetical example. The third chapter focuses on the decision-making process, types, conditions, and judicial enforcement of interim measures by domestic arbitral tribunals. The conclusion highlights the limited interpretative possibilities, which supports the need for legislative amendment.

The Internet and digital platforms are often portrayed as public spaces, hosting both private conversations and discussions of public interest. Political campaigns are conducted and business transactions are also carried out there. This paper challenges this view by highlighting the differences between the Internet and traditional public places. Instead, it argues that the Internet increasingly resembles a mosaic of private domains controlled by a few powerful entities that dictate the flow of information. This paper examines the issue from the perspective of the benefits that public places provide in modern democratic societies and posits the debate within Habermas’s understanding of the public sphere, providing for differences in how public place is typically perceived regarding the Internet and especially digital platforms. Finally, it outlines the ongoing legislative debate in Bosnia and Herzegovina on this issue, with comparative insights from the legal frameworks of Serbia and Croatia.

The project of conceptual jurisprudence has been challenged on the ground it lacks normative implications that can help us to improve our legal practices. But the most serious challenge to the project has nothing to do with its practical value; it is has to do with its viability. Willard Van Orman Quine argues, in Two Dogmas of Empricism, that conceptual analysis is impossible because its objective is to explicate so-called analytic claims that, he argues, do not exist. This essay offers a new criticism of Quine’s arguments, namely that they misconceive the objective of conceptual analysis and that, in consequence, these arguments fail to refute its viability. The project of conceptual jurispudence remains alive and well.

The ongoing digitalisation of judicial systems has intensified the debate over balancing the requirement of transparency and the right to privacy. In Croatia, recent legislative amendments mandate online publication of judgments, which marks a significant step toward ensuring transparency. However, this raises questions about reconciling public access to information with individual privacy protection. This article thus evaluates the implications of these changes, examining their compliance with privacy standards and their impact on judicial practices. It assesses whether current legal provisions adequately balance transparency and privacy, particularly by evaluating the existing anonymisation measures. By situating Croatia’s reforms within a comparative legal context, the study also highlights the challenges and opportunities in implementing the obligation of online publication of judgments. The findings aim to assess whether the current solution represents a balanced approach to achieving transparency in the judiciary while safeguarding privacy rights, and offer recommendations for potential improvements.

The paper explores the concept of settlement facilitation by arbitral tribunals. After a brief overview of the relevant legislation regarding this practice, the paper focuses on different facilitating settlement measures that are available to arbitral tribunals. Finally, the author evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of arbitral tribunals encouraging the parties to find an amicable resolution of their dispute after the arbitration proceedings commence. While it is evident that an early settlement can significantly increase the dispute resolution process efficiency, are there also risks associated with the practice of settlement facilitation?

The ship’s captain (magister navis) held a pivotal role in overseeing maritime operations and managing the vessel. Rooted in traditional legal concepts, Roman maritime law predominantly relied on the contract of locatio conductio. Since, under this contract, captains were liable for the delivery of goods rather than their safekeeping, this often led to fraudulent activities. To address these issues, the receptum nautarum was introduced to impose liability for the safekeeping of goods, allowing merchants to sue captains if goods were damaged or stolen during transit. Given this intricate commercial venture, the author aims to elucidate the captain’s legal relations with the beneficiary of the maritime venture (exercitor navis) on one hand, and with third parties on the other, as well as to prove that the captain was not initially liable for custodia.

The purpose of this paper was to tackle the principle of adversariness in the proceedings before the Serbian Constitutional Court. Two applications have been filed to the European Court of Human Rights because of inability of the applicants to participate in the proceedings before the Constitutional Court in which final judgments in their favour were quashed. The applicants complained under Article 6 § 1 of the Convention that the Constitutional Court had failed to inform them of the constitutional appeals lodged against the judgments in their favour and that, as a result, they had not had an opportunity to participate effectively in the proceedings before the Constitutional Court. According to the case law of European Court of Human Rights the principle of adversariness in court proceedings also includes the proceedings before Constitutional Court. Since the applicants were not provided with an opportunity to participate effectively in the proceedings before the Constitutional Court, there has been a violation of Article 6 § 1 of the Convention on this account. In future Serbian Constitutional Court would have to secure the application of adversariness principle in the proceedings instigated by constitutional appeals.

Mauritian civil law is strongly influenced by French civil law, for historical reasons. Civil liability, tort and contractual law, is regulated in an almost same manner in the two countries. However, as French civil law is only a persuasive authority in Mauritius, the position of the French Court of Cassation is not always followed by the Mauritian Supreme Court. Moreover, even when the legal solutions in the two countries are the same, differences can exist between the contractual and tort liabilities of principals for the acts of their agents. This paper aims at critically analyzing the similarities and differences in the tort and contractual liabilities of principals for the acts of their agents in France and Mauritius.