Medical Criminal Law

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE
Course titleMedical Criminal Law
Chair of Criminal Law Sciences
Number of ECTS credits3
Lecturerprof.dr.sc. Igor Vuletić
Office AddressRadićeva 13 Radićeva 17, prizemlje
Telephone+385 31 224 500
e-mailigor.vuletic@pravos.hr
Lecturerizv.prof.dr.sc. Marin Mrčela
Office AddressRadićeva 13
Telephone
e-mailmmrcela1@pravos.hr
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course content

1. Introduction to criminal law and medicine 2. Basic principles in medical law and relevance to criminal law 3. Fundamental human rights of medical criminal law 4. Informed consent 5. Doctor's responsibility 6. Liability for breach of medical confidentiality 7. Biomedical research on humans 8. Quackery 9. Ethical and legal problems of cloning 10. Infanticide 11. Abortion 12. Euthanasia and assisted suicide 13. Transplantation of parts of the human body 14. AIDS and criminal acts of transmission of infectious and sexually transmitted diseases 15. Persons with mental disorders 16. Addiction and criminal law 17. Sexual abuse and domestic violence 18. Sterilization and castration and treatment of sexual delinquents 19. Use of biomedical knowledge in criminal law and criminology 20. Lombroso and biology today

Course learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student will be able to: 1. Name the legal rules and laws that are relevant to medical criminal law, 2. Group and explain the main idea that is common to all legal institutes of criminal law, 3. Interpret and research the resolution of fundamental human rights relevant to medical criminal law, 4. Analyze and identify the motives, causes, and consequences of different acceptance of legal provisions related to the responsibility of doctors and medical secrecy, 5. Design and construct a solution to the most acceptable legal provision on criminal offenses from a special part of the Criminal Code, 6. Critically analyze the judicial practice of domestic, foreign, and international courts, 7. To argue the adequacy of criminal sanctions for perpetrators of criminal offenses with a medical character,

TEACHING METHODS
☑ Lectures
☐ Seminars and workshops
☐ Exercises
☐ Independent tasks
☐ Multimedia and internet
☐ Distance education
☐ Office hours
☐ Laboratory
☐ Field work
☐ Mentoring work
☐ Knowledge test
EXAMINATION PROCEDURE
☐ Oral exam
☑ Written exam
☐ Colloquium
Other:
ADDITIONAL FACTS
LIST OF LITERATURE FOR STUDIES AND EXAMS
Required reading
Mrčela Marin, Igor Vuletić. Liječnik i kazneno pravo. 2019. Narodne novine, Zagreb
Optional reading
Pihler Davorin, Vuletić Igor. Građanskopravni i kaznenopravni aspekti pogrešaka u medicini. 2020. Pravni fakultet Osijek, Osijek