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The Institute of Criminology has been providing innovations in the fields of criminology and law for more than half a century.
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
Panels of This Year’s Autumn School Revealed
How does law adapt to rapid technological development? How does artificial intelligence shape and dictate the development of military technologies? Where to draw the line between technological...
Renata Salecl participated in the discussion at the Bled Strategic Forum: »The Demise of Democracy – Are We There Yet or Just Well on Our Way?«
Researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Prof. Dr. Renata Salecl, participated in the Bled Strategic Forum, which this year is taking place under the title A...
Presentation of the book by Dr. Renate Salecl at the Buenos Aires Book Fair
At the largest book fair for independent publishers, Feria de Editores, which took place in Buenos Aires between August 7 and 10, the Spanish translation of the book Čas grobosti by renowned...
You are invited to the Autumn School: Law and challenges of the digital (r)evolution
20 November 2025 Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana How does the law respond to rapid technological development? What do artificial...
Presentation of the Sentrix project at the ESELS conference in Toulouse
At the annual conference of the European Society for Empirical Legal Studies (ESELS), held in Toulouse in June 2025, Dr. Mojca Plesničar and Dr. Dean Lipovac presented the first stage of the Sentrix...
Emotions as the Foundation of Legal Objectivity: A New Issue of Frontiers in Sociology Co-Edited by Dr. Mojca Plesničar
A special issue of the international academic journal Frontiers in Sociology, titled Constructing Objectivity: Emotions in Legal Decision-Making, has been published, co-edited by Dr. Mojca Plesničar...
Expert Discussion with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the Legal Responsibility to Prosecute Israeli Atrocities
On Wednesday, 9 July, the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, hosted an expert discussion titled Slovenia...
Opening of the Second SOS4Democracy Conference at the University of Sarajevo
Today marked the beginning of second annual conference "Law, Politics and Social Movements in Illiberal Times: Resistance, Reaction and Oppression". The conference is organised by the Institute of...
Our researchers participated in the seminar The Role of Culture in Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making
In early June, researchers from the Institute of Criminology, Dr. Miha Marčenko, Lovrena Jeromelj and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar attended the European seminar The Role of Culture in...
“Genuine breakthroughs require space for ideas to develop independently and unexpectedly”
Fundamental research is the foundation of any progressive and just society. We therefore support the statement of the AERG (The Association of ERC Grantees), which calls on European leaders to...
Tuesday Meeting: Granular Biopolitics: Biometrics, Surveillance, and Automated Governance
23 June 2025, at 11 am YOU ARE WELCOME! We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Marko Andrejevic, Professor at the School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University, entitled "Granular...
Second Annual Conference of SOS4Democracy Project: “Law, Politics and Social Movements in Illiberal Times: Resistance, Reaction and Oppression”
Following last year's conference in Rome, this year second annual conference within the Social Sciences for Democracy – SOS4democracy project will be held in Sarajevo. The annual SOS4Democracy...
Tuesday Meetings: Emotional Work in Criminal Justice
We invite you to the lecture by our researcher Lovrena Jeromelj entitled "Emotional Work in Criminal Justice", which will be held as part of the Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 11 a.m....
Dr. Mojca Mihelj Plesničar appointed ERC ambassador: “Sometimes, the most important step is simply allowing ourselves to believe – and to try.”
The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced its ambassadors, among which Assoc. Prof. and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, Dr. Mojca Mihelj Plesničar, has been...
Researcher Lovrena Jeromelj receives the prize for outstanding Master’s thesis
On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, the prizes for the best students and special awards from the Faculty of Law were awarded as a part of the ceremony marking the Day of the Faculty of Law. Among the...
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