
Aleš Završnik
Director of the Institute
Dr. Aleš Završnik is a Senior Researcher and Director at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana and Professor at the Faculty of Law University of Ljubljana. Recently, he was EURIAS & Marie Curie Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum/ETH in Zürich (2017/18). His research interest lay in the intersection of law, crime, technology, and fundamental rights. Among several others, he lead a research project Law in the Age of Big Data (Slovenian Research Agency, 2014 -2017), and edited a book Big Data, Crime and Social Control (Routledge, 2018) and a book Drones and Unmanned Aerial Systems: Legal and Social Implications for Security and Surveillance (Springer, 2016). He organised several conferences in these research areas, e.g. Automated Justice: Algorithms, Big Data and Criminal Justice Systems in Zürich (2018) and Big Data: Challenges for Law and Ethics in Ljubljana (2017). He is an independent Ethics Expert with the European Research Council (ERC) and for the REA, the research arm of the European Commission.
Fields of research:
criminology, criminal law, philosophy of law, psychology and law, law and psychoanalysis, post-structural analysis of law, crime and technology, cybercrime
Our researchers prof. dr. Aleš Završnik and Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič attended a conference at the Faculty of Law, University of Sarajevo
On Thursday, 18. 5. 2023, the Director of the Institute, prof. dr. Aleš Završnik, and our junior researcher Iva Ramus Cvetkovič attended the conference "Digitalization u pravu, zaštita privatnosti i automatizacija - DPZPA" at the Faculty of Law of the University of...
The monograph Law and Artificial Intelligence is published in Bosnian translation
A scientific monograph Law and Artificial Intelligence: questions of ethics, human rights and social harm (Pravo i umjetna inteligencija: pitanja etike, prava čovjeka i društvene štete), edited by our researcher prof. dr Aleš Završnik and dr. Katja Simončič, has been...
Aleš Završnik guest on the show Panoptikum about hate speech
Our researcher prof. dr. Aleš Završnik was a guest on the show Panoptikum on TV Slovenia, whose topic was hate speech. The guests of the programme reflected on what hate speech is; how and why it is created; what is the role of social media; where is the line between...
Publication of the monograph Artificial Intelligence, Social Harms and Human Rights
Palgrave Macmillan has published a monograph entitled Artificial Intelligence, Social Harms and Human Rights, edited by our researcher Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik and Dr. Katja Simončič. The chapters in the monograph explore the rapidly evolving field of artificial...
Cyberspace 2022
CYBERSPACE 2022 Our researchers Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik, Aleksej Jankovič and Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič attended the international conference CYBERSPACE 2022 in Brno. The now traditional conference, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, covers a wide range of...
Lecture by Dr. Ales Završnik at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC), University of Klagenfurt
Our researcher Dr. Aleš Završnik will give a lecture on automating criminal justice tomorrow, 24 November 2022 at 4 pm. You are invited to follow the lecture, which will take place at the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC), University of Klagenfurt, live:...
Publication of the monograph IEL Privacy and Technolgy Law
A new monograph entitled IEL Privacy and Technology Law has been published by Wolters Kluwe. The co-authors of the monograph are our researchers, Dr Aleš Završnik and Dr Pika Šarf, as well as Assoc. Prof. Dr Karmen Lutman and Assoc. Prof. Dr Primož Gorkič. More...
Vpliv dizajna tehnologije na uporabnike: od prepričevalnega računalništva do temnih vzorcev
Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik lead a panel at the 3rd Information Security Law Conference, the 3rd May 2022, Portorož, and gave a talk on the ethical design of information technologies: an example of dark patterns. Presenters discussed possible legal remedies for cases of...
The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Societies : the case of Algorithmic Criminal Justice
Prof. Aleš Završnik contributed a speech at the INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL SECURITY FORUM VIENNA, social track »The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Societies«. In his talk he tackled the question How does the justice sector reflect the trend of the...
Criminal justice, artificial intelligence systems, and human rights
Latest research from Aleš Završnik just published with SpringerNature in ERA Forum. Read here: https://rdcu.be/b10rZ