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15th Sport&EU Conference Book of Proceedings is published
After being a proud host of the 15th Sport&EU Conference in mid-June 2021, the Faculty of Law in Rijeka published a Book of Proceedings which is available for reading and downloading here. |
Dean Crnić-Grotić Spoke at the Council of Europe high-level conference on minority rights
On 29 June 2021, the Council of Europe, under the Hungarian presidency, organised the high-level conference Council of Europe norms and standards on national minority rights: Results and challenges, at which the dean of the Faculty fo Law in Rijeka prof. dr. sc. Vesna Crnić-Grotić participated in her capacity of the Chair of the Committee of Experts on the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. The conference was opened by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe Marija Pejčinović Burić.
The aim of the conference is to assess the achievements and to identify the remaining challenges in the field of minority rights protection in Europe. It is dedicated to the Council of Europe’s norms and standards in the field of national minorities and builds on the conference held on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages Minorities and Minority Languages in a Changing Europe organised by the Croatian Presidency of the Committee of Ministers in June 2018.
More on the conference is available here.
5th Rijeka Sports Law, Policies & Diplomacy Days (14th – 19th June 2021)
From 14th to 17th June 2021, the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka and the newly established Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports Diplomacy Centre, together with the most prestigious European sports association, British Association Sport&EU, organized an online international scientific conference "15th Sport&EU Conference".
There were almost 100 papers with around 300 participants, and the conference was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism and Sport of the Republic of Croatia.
Special guests, the keynote speakers at this year's conference were Mrs. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (International Olympic Committee Member and former President of the Republic of Croatia), Mr. Julien Zylberstein (Chief of Governance & Stakeholder Affairs and Senior adviser of the President at UEFA), Prof. Marko Ilešič, Ph.D. (Judge at the CJEU), Prof. Vesna Tomljenović, Ph.D. (Judge at the General Court, CJEU), Prof. Michele Colucci, Ph.D. (FIFA DRC Member and Wolter Kluwer Encyclopaedia on Sports Law Editor), and Prof. Siniša Petrović, Ph.D. (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law and CAS Arbitrator). A detailed program of the conference can be found here.
3rd Rijeka Tax Law Day held at our Faculty, April 30th 2021
On April 30th 2021 our Faculty hosted the international colloquium titled „3rd Rijeka Tax Law Day: Tax Litigation in the EU Internal Market“, organized by the Department of Corporate and Financial Law in co-operation with the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), Amsterdam. A number of topical issues in the area of international tax disputes, with the special emphasis on the rules of the EU Directive on tax dispute resolution, were analysed by renowned tax scholars and practitioners. We are particularly proud that, along with Prof. Dr. Pasquale Pistone, a keynote lecture in the conference was delivered by Prof. Dr. Vesna Tomljenović, a long-time professor at our Faculty and now a Judge at the EU General Court. The event signified continuation of the tradition started in 2018, aimed at contributing to the international debate on key tax issues and linking tax theory with practice.
Ms. Maja Markovčić Kostelac on opportunities for maritime sector
On Wednesday, 14 April 2021 the Faculty virtually hosted, as part of a Rijeka Lecture on Comparative Law, Ms. Maja Markovčić Kostelac, Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). In almost two-hour presentation attended by students especially those enrolled in the course on Marine Environment Protection Act, as well as academics and members of Croatian Maritime Law Association, Ms. Mrakovčić Kostelac presented the whole spectrum of tasks covered by EMSA. She also talked about very ambitious goals set up by the latest Strategy of EMSA based on five pillars – Sustainability, Safety, Security, Simplification and Surveillance. Her speech then focused on the role of EMSA in the European Green Deal. Particularly interesting were her views on the impact of the European Green Deal on Croatian maritime shipping industry. She explained that Green Deal is associated with extensive financial instruments, which could cover the maritime sector, both on the side of ports and on the side of passenger fleet serving local community and the island connection.
Darja Lončarar Dušanović defended her doctoral dissertation
On 24 March 2021, Darja Lončar Dušanović, doctoral candidate at the Postgraduate doctoral study in the field of social sciences, the subject of law of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law and data protection officer at the major Croatian telecommunication company, defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Back to Bases: Overcoming Legal Uncertainty in Personal Data Processing in the EU”, written under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ivana Kunda. As noted by the Defence Committee consisting of Prof. Dr. Marko Šikić, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Assist. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl, University of Maribor, Faculty of Law and Assist. Prof. Dr. Danijela Vrbljanac, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, novelty in her approach is in adopting the perspective of metavalue of legal certainty.
Faculty of Law again partner in a new Erasmus + sport project – Project Employs
In January 2021 a new Erasmus + sport project named Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe (Employs) has started. The Faculty of Law in Rijeka is a partner in the project and is represented by Assist. Prof. Vanja Smokvina. The Project is led by Deutsche Sporthohlschule Köln (Head, Professor Jürgen Mittag), while other partners are Universidade Europeia (Portugal), Edge Hill University (UK), Institute for Sport Governance (Poland) and athletes’ representatives: European Elite Athletes Association (EU Athletes) and European Olympic Academies. It is a two years collaborative partnership project.
This collaborative partnership aims at improving good governance in the employment relations of athletes in Olympic sports in EU-27 Member States + Norway and UK. The Project is providing, evaluating and sharing evidence based information, practices and recommendations in an important, yet largely neglected, subdomain of sport and governance connected to sportspersons in the Olympic sports.
More about the project is available on the Project webpage and on the European Commission projects webpages.