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Dean participating at the Paris Conference celebrating 25 years of the CE Commission against discrimination
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe's European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), a high-level conference will be organised on 26 and 27 September in Paris to take stock of its action and of the progress achieved in Europe in the fight against racism and intolerance, but also to develop responses to new challenges in this field. The Dean of the Faculty of Law in Rijeka Prof. Dr. Vesna Crnić-Grotić was invited to participate at this conference.
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More about the conference is available here.
Professor Nenad Hlača presenting in Argentina
Long-term scientific cooperation with Argentinian law faculties has continued this year as well. On the occassion of his recent visit to Argentina, Professor Nenad Hlača presented the Faculty of Law in Rijeka at the meetings and conferences on several institutions: in San Luis (Poder Judicial de San Luis), Mendoza (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and Universidad de Mendoza) and Buenos Aires (Universidad de Buenos Aires and Asociacion de Magistrados y Funcionarios de la Justicia Nacional).
Professor Ivana Kunda guest lectured on Syracuse University
On 22 August 2019, Professor Ivana Kunda guest lectured at the Syracuse University College of Law on the topic "EU Digital Single Market: Old and New" comparing the topics, modalities and reasons for the European Union's legislative activities in trying to deal with issues that result from development of the digital technology, which pose challenges to legislators for decades now. This is one of the activities within the UNIRI project "Effective Regulation of the Digital Market as a Boost for Innovation in the ICT Sector".
Here is the announcement.
Member of our teaching staff wins a prestigious international award
It is our great pleasure to inform you that Ivan Rubinić, assistant at the Department of Economic Sciences, Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, is the recipient of the 2019 Union for Radical Political economics Dissertation Fellowship. This prestigious award in the field of political economy is awarded to the doctoral candidate based on the excellence with respect to the approved doctoral dissertation proposal. Our colleague is the fourth URPE Dissertation Fellowship recipient, awarded for the proposed doctoral dissertation entitled: "The Dynamics of Economic Inequality in Euro Area Based on the Marxist Theory of Exploitation". Ivan Rubinić is a doctoral candidate of the School of Economics and Business of University of Ljubljana, supervised by the prof. dr. sc. Maks Tajnikar. More information about the doctoral dissertation topic as well as the URPE Fellowship can be found here.
Agreement on cooperation signed with MSU
Dean Prof. Dr. Vesna Crnić-Grotić, acting on behalf of the Faculty of Law in Rijeka, signed the agreement on cooperation with the Michigan State University on 11 July 2019. This is the crown of the ongoing cooperation which has commenced nine years ago owing to the initiative of Prof. Dr. Adam Candeub, who then was a Fulbright scholar at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka and Prof. Dr. Vesna Tomljenović, then the head of the Chair of the International and European Private Law and now the Judge at the EU General Court.
Graduation ceremony for postgraduate students held at our Faculty
Graduation ceremony for Postgraduate specialist study programme in Corporate Finance Law was held on 7 July 2019 at University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law. On this occasion degrees were conferred to students of the first three generations of this study programme. The event was moderated by the Dean of Rijeka Faculty of Law, Prof. Vesna Crnić Grotić and co-directors of the study programme, Prof. Edita Čulinović-Herc and Prof. Nataša Žunić Kovačević. Students that have successfully completed the Postgraduate specialist study programme in Corporate Finance Law have gained interdisciplinary skills, knowledge and competences on various aspects of corporate finance, including knowledge in the fields of economics and psychology.