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Discussion on the legal concept of “vulnerability” of sexually abused children

Part of the scientific conference Giornata di studio del Nord Adriatico - temi giuridici di attualità / North Adriatic Scientific Colloquium - Current Legal Topics held at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka on July 4, 2019., was the session titled "Protecting Child Victims of Sexual Crimes and Their Vulnerability". The presentations have demonstrated how much attention is needed to implement the constitutional concepts, thus also the one of the vulnerability of the victims of criminal acts, into the particular legal norms in away to avoid interference with the coherence of the overall criminal law system. This session is organized as a part of the UNIRI project no. 18-86 "Sexual Child Abuse in the Republic of Croatia – Phenomenological and Etiological Perspectives". Participants to the session were: the head of the project Dalida Rittosa from PRAVRI and from Italy: Francesco Trapella and Alessia Muscella.

The full programme with abstracts is available here.

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Erasmus + Mobility Agreement signed with universities from Italy, Poland, Slovakia and Germany

The University of Rijeka signed the Erasmus + Mobility Agreement with the following universities:  INSUBRIA, TORINO and UDINE (Italy), RZESZOW, LODZ (Poland), PANEUROPEAN (Slovakia) and SIEGEN (Germany), for the field of law. The agreements were signed for the period 2019 to 2021 and include student mobility for the purposes of studies and teaching staff mobilty for teaching. Please see other agreements the Faculty of Law offers in our Erasmus agreement map, as well as more information on Erasmus + here.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Vanja Smokvina appointed an arbitrator at the CAS

We are proud of another confirmation of the professional expertise of our faculty members, this time from Switzerland! International Council of Arbitration in Sport (ICAS) confirmed the appointment of Assistant Professor Dr. Vanja Smokvina as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the world highest legal instance where the sports disputes are resolved, seated in Laussanne, Switzerland. He has been appointed to both of their lists of arbitrators. On the General list (for all sports) Vanja Smokvina is one of the three arbitrators from Croatia (along with Prof. Dr. Siniša Petrović and Petra Pocrnić Perica), while he is the only arbitrator from Croatia on the Special list (for football).

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6th International Association of Language Commissioners

Full prof. Vesna Crnić-Grotić, the Dean, attended 6 th International Association of Language Commissioners conference that was held 26th to 27th June 2019 in Toronto, Canada.

International Conference on Sport Diplomacy held in Zagreb, June 12th 2019

On June 12th 2019 in Zagreb our Faculty co-organised an international conference titled „Sport Diplomacy – Examples of Good Practice“ with the Central State Office for Sports of the Republic of Croatia and with the support of the Croatian Football Federation. The conference was organised as the first event within the Erasmus + project Promoting a Strategic Approach to EU Sport Diplomacy, in which the Faculty is one of the partners.

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4th Rijeka EU Sports Law Day held at our Faculty, June 10th 2019

On June 12th 2019 our Faculty hosted the international conference called “The Regulation of Football Agents” which was organised as part of the Erasmus + project “Promoting and supporting good governance in the European football agents industry”. After the first part of the introduction in which Professor Richard Parrish (Edge Hill University, UK) has given an overview of the Project’s outcomes, Mr. Jurica Vranješ, former Croatian national football team player and currently agent, has given his view on the current state of facts in the industry of players’ agents. The first part of the day than was concluded with a round table on “Arbitration” in which have taken part Professor Jacopo Tognon (University of Padova, CAS), Professor Fabio Iudica (University of Milano, CAS), Ms. Petra Pocrnić-Perica (NOC of Croatia, CAS), Mr. Georgios Elmalis (legal council before BAT) and Mr. Tomislav Kasalo (member of the FIFA DRC).  The round table was moderated by Dr. Andrea Cattaneo (Edge Hill University, UK).

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International conference

On 3 and 4 June 2019 international conference titled "Administrative Dispute in the Central and Eastern European states" was held in Opatija. Faculty of Law in Rijeka was one of the organisers. The programme is accessible here.