Today, the Congress on Criminal Law and Criminology concluded in the Golden Lecture Hall of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. The event was organized by the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in cooperation with the Faculty of Law UL. For the second consecutive year, the congress has represented one of the more important efforts to connect theory and practice, and this year it brought together more than 70 researchers, representatives of courts, prosecution offices, ministries, the legal profession, and students.
The congress was opened with introductory remarks by Prof. Dr. Miro Cerar, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik, Director of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana. They expressed their satisfaction with another successful collaboration between the two institutions and emphasized the importance of transferring knowledge from theory to practice and vice versa.
The topics of this year’s event were presented through five panel discussions, a round table, and three “Outside the Box” lectures, during which speakers addressed current global problems, including the Epstein files and organized crime, targeted EU sanctions and restrictions on freedom of speech, as well as the decline of the welfare state and the crisis of legitimacy surrounding neoliberal policy measures.
Congress panels:
- Human Trafficking and Vulnerable Groups: Legal, Victimological, and Broader Social Perspectives
- Domestic Violence – Round Table
- Technology, Social Harm, and Surveillance
- The Act on Urgent Measures to Ensure Public Security: From Necessity to Unconstitutionality?
- Fundamental Questions of Criminal Law
