EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL

As part of the 30 Years, 30 Stories project, which is taking place to mark the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Slovenia and the United Kingdom and the 30th anniversary of the British Council in Slovenia, 30 Slovenian writers and journalists have...

The Spanish publishing house Paidós has published a translation of Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why by our researcher Dr Renata Salecl.   https://www.planetadelibros.com/libro-pasion-por-la-ignorancia/364108

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...

In the framework of the bilateral project "Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law and Procedure in a Transnational Environment", co-financed by the Slovenian Research Agency (BI-HR/20-21-013), the researchers of the Institute of Criminology - Prof. Dr. Matjaž Jager,...

On 9 December 2022, our researcher Dr Renata Salecl gave a lecture on truth, ignorance and apathy in today's times as part of Vadim Fishkin's exhibition "The Island of the Day Before" at the eSeL REZEPTION museum in Vienna.

The French publishing house Éditions Stilus has published the book Running on the Spot - The Subject as Hostage of Neoliberalism by our researcher Dr Renata Salecl in the Résonances collection.

On Sunday, 4 December 2022, our researcher Dr. Renata Salecl will participate in a debate entitled 'How to be anti-colonial?'. The debate will take place within the framework of The Radio Disaster Series: Colonialism in Camouflage, organised by the Mudam - The...

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:...

The University of Ljubljana has organised the exhibition Portraits of Science, which brings together innovative portraits of eighteen leading researchers at UL, including our researcher Dr Renata Salecl. The exhibition will be opened on Wednesday, 23 November 2022 at...

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...

On Friday, 18 November, the Institute of Criminology hosted Croatian researchers from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb: Prof. Dr. Zlata Đurđević (group leader), Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Ivičević Karas, Assoc. Prof. Zoran Burić, and assistants Darija Željko, Master...

Our researcher dr. Renata Salecl will be a keynote speaker at the Øredev international conference for software developers, which takes place in Malmö, Sweden, from 8 to 11 November 2022. The lecture will look at the question of how technology is contributing to the...

Our Research Associate Jasmina Arnež wrote a blog for the Excluded Lives website. Excluded Lives is a multi-disciplinary project across the four jurisdictions of the UK based in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, with the London School of...

The Director of the Institute of Criminology, Prof. Aleš Završnik, is the recipient of the ESC European Journal of Criminology Best 2021 Article award in recognition of his article“Algorithmic justice: Algorithms and big data in criminal justice settings”, published...

Vasja Badalič appeared on Radio Študent to talk about the current socio-political situation in Afghanistan. You can listen the entire radio show on this link: https://radiostudent.si/politika/kultivator/afganistan-300-dni-po-odhodu-ameriske-vojske

Vasja Badalič spoke on TV Slovenia about the humanitarian action taking place after the devastating earthquake in Afghanistan. He also briefly commented the current socio-political situation in the country. You can watch him at this link:...

On 16 and 17 June, the Institute of Criminology and the Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana are organising an international conference titled "Psychological mechanisms in criminal justice: deconstructing objectivity". Objectivity is one of the fundamental...

Jakub Drápal is a sentencing scholar from the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague. He is currently visiting the Institute of Criminology, working together with Mojca Plesničar on defining measures most suitable to structure sentencing discretion...

At ERoS we are excited to start our summer gathering, which will, hopefully, still allow plenty of opportunities to share experience, opinions, and knowledge on sentencing research and foster informal relationships among researchers interested in the topic. The frist...

Empirical research on sentencing (ERoS) annual conference Ljubljana, August & September 2020   Taking into account the circumstances surrounding travel and gatherings, the third annual conference of the ERoS community of researchers will take place in a...

The editorial board of the Archives of Criminology is pleased to announce the second international competition for young criminologists for an outstanding academic article in the field of criminology. The competition is open to all young researchers from Central and...

Latest research from Aleš Završnik just published with SpringerNature in ERA Forum. Read here: https://rdcu.be/b10rZ

Serija predavanj "Negotiated Justice in Europe: Myths, Reality and New Perspectives" bo potekala 2., 9., 16., 18. in 19. decembra 2019 ob 15h v Knjižnici Inštituta za kriminologijo. Predavanja bo izvajal dr. Jacopo Della Torre, podoktorski raziskovalec na Univerzi v...

Updated programme for Friday 24 August 2018

Debates & Talks: A Tale of Love and Hate Robert Rowland Smith, Renata Salecl, Rowan Williams. Michael Crick hosts. We think love an indisputable force for good. Yet from Jihadi John to Anders Breivik, extremists often cite love of creed or country to justify...

“Understanding Causes and Consequences of Criminalization of Migration” International conference, 17-18 May 2018, City Hotel, Ljubljana, Slovenia Organized by: Peace Institute, Ljubljana; Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law Ljubljana; International Law...

Our world runs on the application of big data, algorithms, and artificial intelligence (AI) in many areas of our lives; social networks suggest whom to befriend, algorithms trade our stocks, and even romance is no longer a statistics-free zone. Big data coupled with...

In this mini-episode, I chat with Renata Salecl, a Slovenian philosopher, sociologist, and author of the excellent book The Tyranny of Choice — a slim volume that completely changed the way I think about decision-making. We talk about how our focus on individualism...

On September 13, 2017, a working meeting of the Trans-making project partners took place at the Institute of Criminology. Trans-making – Art/culture/economy to democratize society is a four year Marie Curie project (Horizon 2020), which brings together a global...

In August 2018 Institute of Criminology at the Law faculty in Ljubljana will host the 46th annual European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control conference, where criminologists, critical criminologists and zemiologists will discuss social harm that...

Renata Salecl: Subjectivity in Time of Big Data and New Forms of Social Control. Lecture on May 31, 2017, at Freud Dream Museum in St. Petersburg.