Aleš Završnik

Director of the Institute

Professor Aleš Završnik is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and a full professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, where he received his PhD. He has completed postdoctoral training at the ETH Zürich, and Max Planck Institute in Freiburg and the Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo. His research focuses on topics at the intersection of law, information technology and crime. He is interested in the impact of new technologies on human rights, social control and subjectivity. He has conducted several research projects at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and Zürich. At the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, he lectures at the first Bologna and at the PhD levels, for example, on Crime, Social Control and Information Technology. He has been involved in the development of the regulation of new technologies at the Council of Europe, e.g. with the Council of Europe’s European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) in the development of the European Charter on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Justice Systems (2018) and the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Criminal Matters (CD-PC) on Artificial Intelligence and Criminal Law Liability. At the national level, he has participated in several inter-ministerial working groups to prepare fundamental guidelines for the work of ministries. He cooperates with the European Research Council (ERC) in the ethical review procedures of security and ICT projects and the ethical appraisal procedures of other European and national research agencies. His bibliography comprises more than 500 units. He has received several awards for his scientific work, including the European Society of Criminology’s Best Article of the Year 2021 Award.

Fields of research

He has worked on cybercrime and cyberbullying, the impact of artificial intelligence on human rights and fundamental procedural guarantees in criminal proceedings, algorithmic surveillance, the regulation of hate speech, ethics and automated driving, privacy and data protection law issues and surveillance, the impact of social media on democracy and the phenomenon of fake news, problems related to autonomous weapons and drones, large EU IT biometric systems and crimmigration, big data and social control, automation of justice, and ethical and legal regulation of Artificial intelligence.

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2025

  • Završnik, A. (2025). Big data. In M. Kaufmann & H. M. Lomell (Eds.), De Gruyter handbook of digital criminology (Vol. 6, pp. 107–114). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111062037

2024

  • Završnik, A., Ramuš Cvetkovič, I., Lazarevič Padar, K., & Stariha, A. (2024). Nadzor nad podatki in raziskovanje v kriminologiji. Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo, 75(1), 72–89. PDF
  • Završnik, A., Briški, L., & Mihelj Plesničar, M. (2024). Digitalisation of the Slovenian justice system and its discontents. Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo, 75(4), 277–289. PDF
  • Skočir, M., & Završnik, A. (2024). Nasilje avtomatizacije: intersekcijska digitalna manipulacija. Dialogi, 60(5/6), 131–143.

2023

  • Završnik, A. (2023). Criminal justice, artificial intelligence systems, and human rights. Ûridičeskie nauki i obrazovanie, (70), 150–164.
  • Završnik, A. (2023). Umjetna inteligencija u krivičnom pravosuđu: uticaj na prava čovjeka. Pravo i pravda, 21(1), 173–192.
  • Završnik, A. (2023). In defence of ethics and the law in AI governance: The case of computer vision. In A. Završnik & K. Simončič (Eds.), Artificial intelligence, social harms and human rights (pp. 101–139). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19149-7_5
  • Babnik, A., Simončič, K., & Završnik, A. (2023). Governing AI systems: A review of regulatory initiatives toward effective global governance. In A. Završnik & K. Simončič (Eds.), Pravo i umjetna inteligencija (pp. 31–89). Dobra knjiga.
  • Završnik, A. (2023). Pristup podacima i umjetna inteligencija: primjer kompjuterskog vida. In A. Završnik & K. Simončič (Eds.), Pravo i umjetna inteligencija (pp. 123–172). Dobra knjiga.
  • Završnik, A. (2023). Pridobivanje oseb, mlajših od petnajst let, za spolne namene: 173.a člen. In D. Korošec et al. (Eds.), Veliki znanstveni komentar posebnega dela Kazenskega zakonika (pp. 1292–1312). Uradni list RS, Pravna fakulteta UL.
  • Završnik, A., & Šarf, P. (2023). Prikazovanje, izdelava, posest in posredovanje pornografskega gradiva: 176. člen. In D. Korošec et al. (Eds.), Veliki znanstveni komentar posebnega dela Kazenskega zakonika (pp. 1343–1373). Uradni list RS, Pravna fakulteta UL.

2022

  • Mihelj Plesničar, M., Završnik, A., & Šarf, P. (2022). Fighting impunity with new tools: How big data, algorithms, machine learning and AI shape the new era of criminal justice. In L. Marin & S. Montaldo (Eds.), The fight against impunity in EU law (pp. 257–275). Hart Publishing.

Current projects:

  • AI4Deliberation: Artificial Intelligence for Institutionalised, Multimodal, Gamified, Democratic Deliberations (1. 11. 2024 – 31. 10. 2027) – leader: Dr. Aleš Završnik
  • SURVEILWEL: Social Security Surveillance: Digital Seams in the Social Safety Net (1. 9. 2024 – 31. 8. 2026) – mentor: Dr. Aleš Završnik
  • FOSTER: Fostering Child-Friendly Legal Environments through Collaborative Networks
    (1. 6. 2024 – 31. 5. 2026) – leader: Dr. Jasmina Arnež

  • SOS4Democracy: Social sciences for democracy: A training program for improving research on illiberal systems and finding ways to build more robust democracies (1. 9. 2023 – 31. 8. 2027) – leader: Dr. Vasja Badalič

  • Large Language Models for Digital Humanities (1. 10. 2024 – 30. 9. 2027) – leader: Dr. Marko Robnik Šikonja

  • Development of the Legal and Conceptual Framework for the Establishment and Operation of a National Regulatory Sandbox for Artificial Intelligence (1. 10. 2024 – 30. 9. 2026) – leader: Dr. Maša Kovič Dine

  • Addressing Peer Violence: A Systemic Approach to Providing a Lasting Safe and Supportive School Environment (1. 10. 2023 – 31. 3. 2026) – leader: Dr. Jasmina Arnež

  • Cyber Violence (1. 1. 2024 – 31. 12. 2025) – leader: Dr. Aleš Završnik

  • Proteverb – Legal, Ethical and Technological Aspects of Processing Textual and Speech Data for Scientific, Research and Development Purposes (1. 10. 2022 – 31. 3. 2025) – leader: Dr. Aleš Završnik

  • Social Control, Criminal Justice System, Violence and the Prevention of Victimizations in the Context of High Technology Market Society (1. 1. 2022 – 31. 12. 2027) – leader: Dr. Renata Salecl

  • The Infrastructure Programme for the Domain of Criminality, Crime and Penal Policy of the Institute of Criminology (1. 1. 2022 – 31. 12. 2027) – leader: Dr. Matjaž Jager

Past projects:

  • Preventive (In)Justice: The Prevention of Crime and Social Harms (1. 9. 2020 – 31. 12. 2023) – leader: Dr. Vasja Badalič

  • Psychological Mechanisms in Criminal Justice: Deconstructing Objectivity (1. 7. 2019 – 30. 6. 2022) – leader: Dr. Mojca Mihelj Plesničar

  • Human Rights and Regulation of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (1. 11. 2019 – 30. 6. 2021) – leader: Dr. Aleš Završnik

  • Automated Justice: Social, Ethical and Legal Implications (1. 7. 2018 – 30. 6. 2021) – leader: Dr. Aleš Završnik

  • Hate Speech on Online Social Networks in Slovenia (1. 4. 2018 – 31. 3. 2020) – leader: Dr. Vasja Vehovar

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