EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL

The Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) organized a book talk to mark the Turkish edition of Renata Salecl's book, "Running on the Spot – The Subject as a Hostage of Neoliberalism" held at the IPC's headquarters in Karaköy. In her book, dr. Salecl describes how ordinary...

Behind many research projects that make a substantial contribution to the advancement of the discipline, to legislative development and public policy design, and to a broader understanding of social inequalities, there are women. Women who collaborate. Who inspire and...

10. 2. 2026 Primorski dnevnik: “My proposal is very simple: we should stick to the rules we already have — the United Nations Charter, which says when the use of force is allowed. If these rules were followed, there would have been no preventive attack on Iran by the...

29. 1. 2026 Odmevi (TV SLO 1)Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca M. Plesničar spoke on the TV programme Odmevi about the rise in peer violence and the ways in which the digital age and social media are creating new forms of violence and pressure on young people. She emphasized...

We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Márton Matyasovszky‑Németh entitled “Kálmán Kulcsár and the Making of Hungarian Legal Sociology: Power, Compromise, and International Networks”, which will take place as part of Tuesday Meetings on Wednesday, 4 February 2026,...

Our researcher Renata Salecl took part as a keynote speaker at the Congreso Futuro festival in Santiago, Chile—the largest scientific event in South America—which took place from January 12 to 17, 2026. Organized by the Chilean Senate in cooperation with all public...

9. and 10. April 2026, Faculty of Law UL Poljanski nasip 2, 1000 Ljubljana This conference seeks to explore the ways in which criminologists can—and should—address state criminality; to consider how criminological scholarship may contribute critical analyses of...

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...

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:...

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....

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 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...

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....

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...

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 library of the Institute of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 2 p.m. in the library of the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...