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In this paper the author considers constitutional implications of the most recent disagreement between the president and Congress of the United States of America regarding the federal budget and issues related to it, i.e. the debt ceiling. In the first part the author analyses the debt-ceiling crisis causes and political and financial developments that marked the third year of Barack Obama's presidential term of office. He continues his presentation with a detailed review of the budget process institutional framework, i.e. the Constitution and the budget related legislation. Furthermore, the author talks about the debt ceiling issues during the twentieth and in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Then the author discusses the Budget Control Act of 2011, whose content is a reflection of the last minute reached compromise between the president and Congress, thus avoiding the default. The legally introduced increase mechanism of the debt ceiling, and the newly founded Joint Select Committee, on Deficit Reduction, so-called Super committee, have been analyzed in details. Finally, in the last part of the paper, by predicting a new, even more difficult conflict between the president and Congress regarding the above mentioned issues and by pointing to bigger ideological discrepancies between the Republicans and the Democrats, the author explains his doubt in the possibility of efficient work of the American system of "checks and balances" in future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an attempt to define the concept, frame and jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Through examining the Court on the basis of the Rome Statute, the attention is given to the theoretical papers which contain pro and contra arguments concerning the existence and quality of the Court. Moreover, a possible role of the Court in the system of international justice is contemplated, combined with its conjunction with the Constitutional Law, the leading foundation of modern states. As an additional supplement to the paper, a relationship between the Court and the United States of America is closely examined through the work of selected authors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As we know, in 2005 the new Croatian Law of Obligations was enacted and one of the institutes which were changed was precontractual liability. In this paper, the author analyses the historical developement of this institute concentrating primarily on Jhering's culpa in contrahendo doctrine. The regulation on precontractual liability by the former Law of Obligations was also shown so as to compare it with the existing one which represents a step forward concerning the extent of this liability. Significant attention was also paid to the measure of damages. Moreover, it was interesting to see how common law countries treat precontractual liability, especially Great Britain and the USA, having in mind that their standpoint regarding this institute is somewhat different than that of civil law countries one of which is Croatia (with particular regard to the good faith principle). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]