EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History: Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History

  (image: Fords Hospital - Alms house of old ladies of Coventry) 14 posts have been released as part of this year's EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History's virtual exhibition.  Students from Ljubljana, CY Cergy Paris, Warwick and Brussels worked around the common theme " Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History" .  Ajra Šišernik on the University of Graz as a Slovene Cultural Centre ( here ) Améline Verhelst on female suffrage in 19th and 20th century Belgium and "male allies" of women ( here ) Ash Fowkes-Gajan on Venetian Social Rights through Patronage ( here ) August Vanschoubroek on Collective Action and the Struggle for Universal Suffrage in Belgium ( here ) Benjamin on Marenče The development of the Carniola Bar Association ( here ) Domen Bogdan on the Sokol association in Ljutomer ( here ) Emma Cornette on Children's Rights in 19th Century France ( here ) Ferdaousse Abdeljelil and Aude Froese on the Anzin Miners' Strike (...

Introduction  To continue this journey through legal history with a truly legal topic, this study shall concern itself with the development of the Carniola Bar Association. From it’s humble beginnings in the middle of the 19th century, it quickly became a major force in Carniolan public life, fighting for the rights of its members, the legal profession and even the Slovene nation itself.   A brief history of the attorney’s profession in the Habsburg monarchy  From time immemorial, if one wanted to become an attorney, he had to be appointed by the state. This fact was painfully felt by Slovenia’s most celebrated poet and jurist, Dr. France Prešeren, who was denied the appointment five times, before finally having his request approved in 1846.   This all changed in 1868 with the passing of a new law called Advocatenordnung , or Advokatski red . In stark contrast to established practice, it prescribed criteria, which anyone could fulfil and become a registered...