An international conference of historians, lawyers, political scientists and linguists on the occasion of the 40^th anniversary of the Croatian Spring was held in October 2011 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. The organisers were the Miko Tripalo Centre for Democracy and Law and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Co-organizers: Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb and Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. The conference stressed the Croatian Spring as one of the most important events in the history of socialist Croatia. The event also initiated a critical discourse on the democratisation of contemporary Croatian society as well.