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The second session of the 2020 UEFA Football Law Programme held in Rijeka
From 10 to 14 February 2020, the Faculty of Law in Rijeka co-organised and hosted the second session of the third UEFA Football Law Programme. This programme offers training in the field of sports law in particular football law, and is designed for legal specialists or senior executives working on legal issues in national football associations, football clubs, players’ unions, leagues and law firms specialised in sports law. It comprises four week-long sessions in five different locations, thus Rijeka now appears on the UEFA FLP map along with Lausanne and Nyon (Switzerland), being the CAS and UEFA headquarters respectively, Istanbul (Turkey) and Venice (Italy).
Dean participated in the panel The meaning of language for maintaining the minority identity
Professor Vesna Crnić-Grotić, the dean of the Faculty, has participated in the panel The meaning of language for maintaining the minority identity, organized in Daruvar by the Bjelovar-Bilogora County. She was invited as the president of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, along with Ass. Professor Antonija Petričušić, a member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities of the Council of Europe.
Rijeka Faculty of Law Professors participated at the Croatian Academy round table on law and politics in EU
On the occasion of Croatian Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Croatian Academy of Science and Arts organises 10 round tables on key topics of EU law. The fist of the round tables “EU Law and Politics - Old Questions, New Answers, led by academic Aresen Bačić, was held on 28 January 2020 and among eight speakers included also three professors of the Rijeka Faculty of Law: the dean Prof. Dr. Vesna Crnić-Grotić who addressed the issue of languages in the EU, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivana Kunda who spoke of instrumentalization of private international law in EU and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ana Pošćić who tackeled the effects of digitalisation on the competition policy.
Book issued within the Erasmus+ project on regulating football agents
The Erasmus+ project Promoting and supporting good governance in the European football agents industry ended with the publication of the book, authored by the research team members (Richard Parrish, Andrea Cattaneo, Johan Lindholm, Jürgen Mittag, Carmen Perez-Gonzalez and Vanja Smokvina). The book has been published by the European Commission Representation in Croatia and the Faculty of Law in Rijeka after the flagship event held on 1 November 2019 at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester (UK).
More about the Project outcome is available at the project website.
First meeting of YUFE law faculties
A meeting of the universities participating in Young Universities for the Future of Europe – YUFE initiative was held on 14 January 2020 at the University of Maastricht. YUFE represents an alliance which, with the support of the European Union, aims to build a European university through the integration of its members. The extended meeting was held at the university level and the University of Rijeka was represented by Madam Rector Prof. Dr. Snježana Prijić-Samaržija. Simultaneously, a meeting of representatives of ten law faculties within YUFE was held. Faculty of Law in Rijeka was represented by three members of the Faculty management, Dean Prof. Dr. Vesna Crnić-Grotić and Vice-Deans Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ivana Kunda and Assist. Prof. Dr. Sandra Winkler. The law faculties meeting is the first initiative directed at developing concrete forms of cooperation at the level of student and staff mobility. More information about the University of Rijeka’s participation in the YUFE network is available here.
Dean invited to the Croatian National Television (HRT)
On the occasion of celebrating the Human Rights Day, the HRT organised a panel on the fundamental international human rights legal instruments which deal with the rights of national minorities and their enforcement in Croatia, within the multinational magazine “Prizma”, Dean of the Faculty of Law in Rijeka Prof. Dr. Vesna Crnić-Grotić, who is also the Chair of the the Council of Europe Committee of Experts of the European Charter for regional and minority languages. Other panellists were Assist. Prof. Dr. Antonija Petričušić, member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities at Council of Europe and Mr. Alen Tahiri, the Head of the Croatian Government Office for Human Rights and Rights of National Minorities.
The interview was broadcasted on Saturday 14 December 2019 at HTV1.
Our students successfully participated in the Price Media Law Moot Court
Regional rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court were held last week in Budapest. A student team from the Law Faculty of Rijeka participated in these. Its members were Mihovil Miholić, Gorana Morić, Martina Tičić and Laura Žeželić. The team reached the final match, where its members faced their hosts, the team of the Law Faculty of the Eötvös Loránd University. Although our students have performed well, they lost the match, winning the excellent second place in the final rankings. In doing so, the team qualified for the international rounds, which will be held next year in Oxford. Furthermore, Mihovil Miholić was declared the best oralist of the regional rounds, and the team received an award for second best memorials, bested only by the Eötvös Loránd team.
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