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The Faculty has been awarded the Jean Monnet Chair in EU sports law, policy & diplomacy

At the end of October 2022, the University of Rijeka signed the Grant Agreement for the Faculty of Law for the provision of funds and the establishment of the EU Sport Law, Policy and Diplomacy Jean Monnet Chair for the period 2022-2025. It is the first Jean Monnet Chair dealing with sport in the Republic of Croatia and the only one ever to have emerged from the Jean Monnet call for applications, which covers three interdisciplinary areas, namely law, sport policy and diplomacy. The applicant and holder of the Jean Monnet Chair is Assoc. Prof. Vanja Smokvina. This means that the teaching activity has now been added to the scientific and research activities of the Faculty's Centre for Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports Diplomacy. The activity of the Jean Monnet Chair, with the approval of the European Commission, has already started before the signing of the Agreement in September with the implementation of the Jean Monnet EU Sports law, policy & diplomacy Rijeka Summer School.
 

The Jean Monnet EU Summer School on Sports Law, Policy and Diplomacy has ended

In September and October 2022, the Faculty of Law in Rijeka hosted the Jean Monnet EU Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Rijeka Summer School, an accredited lifelong learning programme with 4 ECTS credits. About fifty participants from all over the world attended the Summer School, which was held in a hybrid format and under the auspices of the Representation of the European Commission in the Republic of Croatia and the Ministry of Tourism and Sport of the Republic of Croatia.

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Prof. Parrish in a study visit at the Faculty

The University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law is very pleased to have the opportunity to welcome the most renowned scholar and expert in the field of EU sports law, Professor Richard Parrish (Head of the Centre for Sports Law Research, Edge Hill University, UK), as a guest lecturer. Thanks to the "Internationalisation" grant from the University of Rijeka, Professor Parrish will be visiting our Faculty from August 30 to September 13, 2022. Besides deepening the already close relations between the two universities, one of the main activities will be the opening session of the Jean Monnet EU Sports Law, Policy & Diplomacy Rijeka Summer School, which will start on September 5, 2022.

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YUFE LAW RIJEKA - Meeting and Conference 23rd and 24th June 2022

YUFE LAW RIJEKA 2022  - Meeting Programme

YUFE LAW RIJEKA 2022  - Conference Programme
 

Praxis Iuris project team learning from the legal clinics in UK

The PRAVRI Praxis Iuris project team is currently on their study visit to the Anglia Ruskin University's Law Clinic in Cambridge and King's Legal Clinic, King's College London. They will meet and talk extensively with all stakeholders, including Sarah Calder, the ARU Law Clinic Director, and Shaila Pal, the KCL Director of Clinical Legal Education. The group is headed by the Prof. Dr. Vesna Crnic-Grotic (Dean of the Faculty of Law, Rijeka) and Prof. Dr. Gabrijela Mihelčić, Head of the project, and project team members: Prof. Dr. Marissabell Škorić, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Igor Martinović, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Adrijana Martinović, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stjepan Gadzo, Josip Dešić and Iva Parenta.
 
The project „Praxis Iuris - Free primary legal aid and professional practice at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka" is funded from the European Social Fund, OP Efficient Human Resources.

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6th Rijeka Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports diplomacy Day was held on 13th of May 2022 with a conference: Defining Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes: Open Forum

The University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law and its Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sport Diplomacy Centre with its Head - Assoc. Prof. Vanja Smokvina was the host to key stakeholders who met in Rijeka (Croatia) on 13th May 2022 to debate on Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Elite Athletes in Olympic sports at the fourth conference of the EMPLOYS project. In recent months, the project team had developed a set of athlete-centred principles for good governance on employment relations, grouped into six dimensions, which were now presented and discussed in Rijeka. What improvements are required, what standards are beneficial, implementation of adequate and sustainable policies and what mechanisms and activities need to be in place to improve good governance in athlete relations, these formed the main questions explored in two panels and two keynote speeches.

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4th Rijeka Tax Law Day held at our Faculty, April 29th 2022

On April 29th 2022 our Faculty hosted the international conference „4th Rijeka Tax Law Day: Procedural aspects of Value Added Tax”, organized by the Department of Corporate and Financial Law, University of Rijeka – Faculty of Law, in co-operation with the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD), Amsterdam.
Within the conference programme, renowned tax scholars and practitioners analysed a number of issues in the area of VAT procedural law, focusing primarily on EU VAT and the case law of the CJEU.
We are particularly proud that the conference gathered a large number of participants from various countries, which signifies its contribution to the international debate on key issues regarding VAT procedural law.

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