EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL
Open call for abstracts for the upcoming criminology conference
9. and 10. April 2026, Faculty of Law UL Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana Avenue: Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana Dates: 9.–10. April 2026. Abstract submission deadline: 31. januar 2026 This conference seeks to explore the ways in which criminologists can—and...
Presentation of challenges of prosecuting human trafficking in Slovenia
From 12 to 14 November 2025, a meeting of the Network of National Anti-Trafficking Coordinators of South-Eastern Europe (NATC-SEE) took place in Sarajevo. The meeting was also attended by our researcher, Marko Balažic. In the photo (from left to right): Tjaša Škreblin...
FRA report: violence against people with disabilities in institutions is a systemic problem
The FRA report on 'Places of care = places of safety? Violence against persons with disabilities in institutions” has been released: Neglect, abuse and violence against people with disabilities living in institutions are widespread across the EU. A new FRA report...
Social Trends and Nostalgia: Understanding Violence Against Women
The fourth National Conference marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women took place at Brdo pri Kranju, where our researcher Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar also participated with a lecture. In her lecture entitled Social Trends and Nostalgia:...
»Hague Tribunal: discussion on the detention and sentencing of Bilijana Plavšić«
We kindly invite you to a lecture by dr. Olivera Simić entitled »Hague Tribunal: discussion on the detention and sentencing of Bilijana Plavšić«, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 2 December 2025, at 11.00 am in the library of the Institute...
Highlights from the 2025 Autumn School
This year’s Autumn School once again attracted great interest. With over 60 participants from academia, legal practice and related professional fields, the event provided a platform for discussing issues that are rapidly reshaping our legal and social landscape....
Participation in the 80th Conference of the American Society of Criminology (ASC)
The Director of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik, and researcher Prof. Dr. Renata Salecl attended the 80th Conference of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Washington, D.C., from 12 to 15 November 2025....
The Sentrix workshop on sentencing architecture successfully concluded
The three-day Sentrix Workshop on Sentencing Architecture, held from 12 to 14 November, concluded today in Bled, Slovenia, bringing together scholars and researchers to rethink how sentencing is understood. Set against the calm backdrop of Lake Bled, the workshop...
Invitation: »Madam War Criminal: 30 Years of Dayton and the Legacy of Biljana Plavšić«
2. December 2025, City Museum of Ljubljana, Gosposka ulica 15, 1000 Ljubljana You are cordially invited to the event Madam War Criminal: 30 Years of Dayton and the Legacy of Biljana Plavšić, co-organized by the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, which...
Tuesday Meeting: »(In)visible costs of domestic violence in CEEC- a case of countries with low data availability«
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr Izabela Grabowska and Dr Magdalena Kocejko, entitled “(In)visible costs of domestic violence in CEEC- a case of countries with low data availability”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Wednesday, 26 November...
Statement by the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law on the Proposal for “Šutar Law”
At the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, we express our sincere condolences to the family of the victim following the tragic event in Novo Mesto. At the same time, we acknowledge that the security situation in southeastern Slovenia has become untenable....
Tuesday Meeting: »Digitalized Descriptions of Criminal Behaviours Contained in Court Verdicts and Their Use in Sentencing Research: Vast Opportunities (and some dangers)«
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Jakub Drapal entitled “Digitalized Descriptions of Criminal Behaviours Contained in Court Verdicts and Their Use in Sentencing Research: Vast Opportunities (and some dangers)”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings...
Invitation to a Lecture by Slovenian Judge at the International Criminal Court, Beti Hohler, LL.M.
November 21, 2025, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana You are cordially invited to a lecture by Beti Hohler, LL.M., a Slovenian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), entitled “The International...
Tuesday Meeting: »AI for assisting judicial decision-making: challenges and opportunities«
November 11 at 15.00 WELCOME! We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Brian Barry entitled “AI for assisting judicial decision-making: challenges and opportunities”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 11 November 2025, at 15.00 pm in the...
Completed CRP 2024 Project – Validation of a Screening Tool for Risk Assessment in Prisons
On Thursday, 23 October 2025, an extended meeting of the Director General of the Prison Administration took place at the Ministry of Justice. The meeting was attended by the directors of the Correctional Institutions, heads of branch units, and members of the extended...
Together against human trafficking
V petek, 10. oktobra 2025, je Zavod RS za zaposlovanje organiziral konferenco Skupaj proti trgovini z ljudmi, ki je združila predstavnike različnih institucij, z namenom okrepitve sodelovanja pri odkrivanju, preprečevanju in pregonu primerov prisilnega dela in...
Tuesday Meeting: »Pre-trial detention in Chile: Between Time Management and Standardisation«
10. November at 11 a.m. WELCOME! We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Javier Velásquez entitled “Pre-trial detention in Chile: Between Time Management and Standardisation”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Monday, 10 November 2025, at 11.00...
When freedom becomes a burden: Renata Salecl’s conversation with the Spanish philosopher Juan Evaristo Valls
Renata Salecl was in discussion with a Spanish philosopher Juan Evaristo Valls on the theme of her book Maleducados which was just published by Editiones Godot. The discussion, which took place as part of an event at the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Conde Duque in...
Matjaž Jager on the production of obedience from outside and from withi
On Thursday, 9 October 2025, the University of Siedlce in Poland hosted an international conference entitled “Human Rights in not only Democratic Societies” as part of its project under the EU’s Jean Monnet Program. T he panel, which was dedicated to human rights in...
National Criminology Conference 2025: from the psychology of evil to understanding current dilemmas raised by war and genocide
Today, the National Criminology Conference 2025 took place in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, successfully bringing together academics, researchers, lawyers, prosecutors and students. Through thematically diverse...
Domen Savič, Aleš Završnik, Simon Delakorda on digital surveillance
20. 10. 2025 1st program of Television Slovenia – MarcelToday, we live in a time when surveillance is intertwined with all aspects of our lives – from education to banks and insurance companies. Did you know that there are already almost 2000 public cameras in...
Human Wisdom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the New Leadership Frontier
Between October 15 and 18, the International Leadership Association's global conference was held in Prague, where researcher Dr. Renata Salecl gave a keynote lecture entitled Human Wisdom in the Age of AI: Navigating New Frontiers of Leadership. As artificial...
Tuesaday Meeting: Negotiating Authority: Prosecutors’ Perceptions of the Supervisory Role in Sentencing
22. October at 2 p.m. WELCOME! We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Tomonori Ishioka, entitled “Interpretive labor: a sociological concept to observe Japonese society differently", which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Wednesday, 22 October 2025, at...
Hana Hawlina on imagination and the spaces of the future
On Friday, October 3, 2025, the Julija Betetta Hall at the Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana hosted Architects' Day, a central professional and public event organized by the Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning of Slovenia (ZAPS). This year's...
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Renata Salecl at the Indigo Festival
This upcoming weekend, Cukrarna will once again host the Indigo Festival, bringing together philosophy, art, contemporary culture, and design. The festival will also feature a lecture by Renata Salecl, philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist, and researcher at the...
First Sentrix Workshop
As part of the ERC Sentrix project, a workshop dedicated to the decision-making architecture in sentencing will be held in Bled from November 12 to 14, 2025.Discussions will focus on the factors that shape the environment in which sentencing decisions take place...
Consultation within the framework of the targeted research project The Challenges of Processing Human Trafficking in Slovenia
Yesterday, we held a consultation at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana as part of the targeted research project Challenges in Prosecution of Human Trafficking in Slovenia, with the aim of formulating more comprehensive proposals for...
Tuesday Meeting: »Negotiating Authority: Prosecutors’ Perceptions of the Supervisory Role in Sentencing«
7. October, at 11.00 am. WELCOME! We kindly invite you to a lecture by a PhD researcher, Alena McClure, entitled “Negotiating Authority: Prosecutors’ Perceptions of the Supervisory Role in Sentencing”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 7...
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 progress and digital violence? We will seek answers to these and many other...
Tuesday Meeting: »Volatile Boundaries: Legal Inclusion and Exclusion of the Indigenous Sámi People«
16 September at 10.00 am. WELCOME! We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Daniela Alaattinoğlu entitled “Volatile Boundaries: Legal Inclusion and Exclusion of the Indigenous Sámi People”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 16 September...
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 Runaway World. This year, the Strategic Forum focuses on the future and...
Tuesday Meeting: »The regulation of sex robots: Gender and sexuality in the era of artificial intelligence«
9 September at 11 am WELCOME! We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Carlotta Rigotti entitled »The regulation of sex robots: Gender and sexuality in the era of artificial intelligence«, which will be held as part of the Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 9 September...
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 Slovenian philosopher and sociologist Dr. Renata Salecl, entitled...
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 intelligence, justice and military technologies have in common? Who sets the...
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 project – a comprehensive and methodologically innovative literature...
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 from the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University...
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 and the Responsibility for Prosecuting Israeli Atrocities. The...
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 Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana, and the University 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 Sentencing & Penal Decision-Making, which took place at the Faculty of...
“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 increase the autonomy of the ERC with its own legal and institutional...
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 Biopolitics: Biometrics, Surveillance and Automated Governance", which...
AirBeletrina podcast: comfort zone with Renato Salecl
19. 5. 2025 AirBeletrinaThe latest episode of the Comfort Zone podcast featured philosopher and theorist Prof. Dr. Renata Salecl, who spoke about the novel The Vegetarian by Han Kang. She described the book as "relatively light yet burdensome at the same time," as it...
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 conference in Sarajevo will explore the complex interplay between law,...
The First Congress of Criminal Law and Criminology Successfully Connects Theory and Practice
The first Congress of Criminal Law and Criminology, organized by the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in cooperation with the Faculty of Law UL, took place today in the Golden Lecture Hall of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. The event, which...
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. in the library of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law...
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 selected as Slovenian ERC Ambassador.The ERC Ambassador network will work...
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 winners was also our researcher Lovrena Jeromelj, who was awarded the prize...
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca Mihelj Plesničar receives award for exceptional achievements in the field of criminology
The Institute of Criminology awarded Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca Mihelj Plesničar the award for exceptional achievements in the field of criminology for the year 2024. The award reflects her exceptional research success in obtaining a prestigious ERC research project,...
Tuesday Meetings: The Dissenting Hegemon and the Authoritarian Militarization of Europe
We cordially invite you to a lecture by Zoran Kanduč entitled "The Dissenting Hegemon and the Authoritarian Militarization of Europe", which will take place as part of the Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, 15 April 2025, at 13:00 in the library of the Institute of...
Researcher Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar on the importance of decent living conditions in Slovenian prisons
31. 3. 2025 Tednik on RTV SLOThe construction of a state-of-the-art high-security prison in Dobrunje is nearing completion – completion is scheduled for the middle of the year. The new facility, worth 86.5 million euros, will have a significant impact on the situation...
Conference “Law in the Information Society”
At the event, our researchers led a roundtable discussion on the contradictions of content moderation on online platforms. Manja Skočir presented the development of platform regulation and the challenges of content moderation, while Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič spoke about the...
Legal Challenges of Space Pollution: A New Monograph by Researcher Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič
Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič, a researcher at the Institute of Criminology, together with co-authors Matthew Gillett and Katja Grunfeld, has published a monograph in which she examines different ways of establishing liability for space pollution by non-state (private) actors....
Tuesday Meeting: Defendants in European Union Law: Between Shield and Sword of Criminal Procedure Law
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Matej Igličar entitled "Defendants in European Union Law: Between Shield and Sword of Criminal Procedure Law", which will take place as part of the Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 11 a.m. in the library of the...
Opposition to the opening of another honorary Israeli consulate in Slovenia
Last Wednesday, 12 March, a press conference was held in Maribor at which the Movement for Palestinian Rights and the Organization for a Participatory Society called on the government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the President of the Republic, the National...
Conference AYASU? Opened Key Questions on Digital Realities and War Technology
On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the full-day conference AYASU? - Are You a Program Update? took place at Šiška Cinema, organized by the Aksioma Institute, Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana. The event brought together artists, theorists, and researchers who,...
Tuesday Meeting: Unlimited Use of Low Earth Orbit – Monopolizing the Orbital Space Environment?
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Annie Kazarjan entitled "Unlimited Use of Low Earth Orbit – Monopolizing the Orbital Space Environment?", which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 11 a.m., in the library of the Institute of...
Lior Volinz organized a panel on the Digital Welfare State at the VSR – Law and Society conference in the Netherlands
Dr. Lior Volinz, researcher at the Institute of Criminology, organized a double session panel on the Digital Welfare State at the VSR - Dutch and Flemish Law and Society – conference in Leiden, the Netherlands. The panel, on January 30th 2025, included contributions...
Dr. Renata Salecl on the issues of the current legal framework governing airspace and space
26. 2. 2025 Osmi dan, TV Slovenija 1Our researcher and associate member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Prof. Dr. Renata Salecl, was a guest on the program Osmi dan on TV Slovenija 1. She spoke about the problems of the current legal framework governing...
Roundtable: Art and the Proposal for a New Human Right
On Thursday, 30 January 2025, a round table co-organised by the Institute of Criminology of the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana entitled Art and the Proposal for a New Human Right was held at Cukrarna. The round table was attended by renowned experts from the fields of...
Tuesday’s meeting: Milgram’s ideal subject
We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Bojan Volf entitled "Milgram's ideal subject", which will take place as part of the Tuesday Meeting on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 11 a.m. in the library of the Institute of Criminology. At the end of October 2024,...
Poljanski nasip 2
1000 Ljubljana
