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The book, as a printed and as an e-book, named Understanding the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic sports in Europe was published by the Faculty of Law in Rijeka in the edition of the Faculty Center for Sports Law, Sports Policy and Sports Diplomacy and the European Documentation Centre in Rijeka. It is a result of the study on the employment relations of athletes in Olympic sports in 29 European countries (EU-27 + Norway and UK) run within the Erasmus + sport project Understanding, Evaluating, and Improving Good Governance in the Employment Relations of Athletes in Olympic Sports in Europe – EMPLOYS. Authors of the book, together with Associate Professor Vanja Smokvina are Professor Jürgen Mittag, Maximilian Seltmann and Lorenz Fiege (German Sport University Cologne, Germany), dr. Leanne O'Leary (Edge Hill University, UK), dr.  Pawel Zembura (Institute for Sport Governance, Poland), dr.  Luiz Haas and Thiago Santos (Universidade Europeia, Portugal). Partners to the Project are also Paulina Tomczyk who represents the European Elite Athletes Association (EU Athletes) and Professor Manfred Laemmer koji predstavlja European Olympics Academies. The book may be downloaded at the following link.

The Final Expert Meeting of the EU_En4s Project Consortium Held in Tirana on 4 and 5 March

As one of the final activities within the project Diversity of Enforcement Titles in Cross-Border Debt Collection in the EU – EU_En4s (br. 831628-JUST-AG-2018/JUST-JCOO-AG-2018), a final expert meeting was held in Tirana on 4 and 5 March 2022 with the aim of presenting the activities and research results of the project. While the first day was chaired by Prof. Dr. Eduard Kunštek from the Faculty of Law in Rijeka, the second day was chaired by Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec, coordinator of the EU_En4s Consortium from the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor and Assist. Denis Baghrizabehi from the same institution.

Along with Prof. Dr. Eduard Kunštek, members of this project from the Faculty of Law in Rijeka, as a project partner, are Prof. Dr. Ivana Kunda, coordinator of the Faculty of Law in Rijeka project team, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gabrijela Mihelčić and Assist. Prof. Dr. Danijela Vrbljanac. One of the most significant project result are the national reports of 11 Member States and one candidate country on enforcement and enforcement titles. The National Report on Enforcement and Enforcement Titles in the Republic of Croatia written by the Faculty of Law in Rijeka project team is available here.

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The e-book Promoting a Strategic Approach to EU Sport Diplomacy is published

The e-book Promoting a Strategic Approach to EU Sport Diplomacy was published by the Faculty of Law in Rijeka with the support of the European Commission Representation in the Republic of Croatia in the edition of the Faculty Center for Sports Law, Sports Policy and Sports Diplomacy. This is a unique edition created as a result of the eponymous Erasmus + sport project, which ended in December 2021. Authors are: Professor Richard Parrish (Edge Hill University, UK); Dr Antoine Duval (TMC Asser Institute, Netherlands); Silvija Mitevska (formerly TAKT, Republic of North Macedonia); Associate Professor Carmen Perez-Gonzalez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Associate Professor Vanja Smokvina (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law, Croatia); Professor Albrecht Sonntag (ESSCA School of Management, France); Professor Thierry Zintz (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Dr Andrea Cattaneo (Edge Hill University, UK). The book may be downloaded at the following link.

The UEFA Football Law Program virtually started on 21 February 2022

Yesterday, the second of four sessions of the prestigious education program for football lawyers began, which the Faculty of Law in Rijeka and its Center for Sports Law, Sports Policcies and Sports Diplomacy are conducting together with UEFA. The program was officially opened by the Vice-Rector for Science and Arts of the University of Rijeka, prof. dr. sc. Gordan Jelenić, Dean of the Faculty of Law in Rijeka prof. dr. sc. Vesna Crnić-Grotić and on behalf of the Croatian Football Association by Tanja Peraković. The second session lasts until 24 February 2022, and the program focuses on various aspects of the FIFA transfer system. You can find out more about the UEFA Football Law Program here.

Croatian Translation of the Book on the Regulations on the Matrimonial Property Regime and the Property Consequences of Registered Partnerships Published

As part of a project funded by the EU Justice Program EU-FamPRO, in which the Faculty of Law in Rijeka participates as a partnering institution, the e-book “Uredbe EU-a o imovinskim odnosima bračnih drugova i registriranih partnera” was published by the Faculty of Law in Rijeka. It is a Croatian translation of the publication “EU Regulations on Matrimonial Property and Property of Registered Partnerships” edited by Prof. Dr. Lucia Ruggeri, coordinator of the Eu-FamPRO Consortium from the University of Camerino, Dr. Agnė Limantė from the Law Institute of the Lithuanian Center for Social Sciences and Assist. Prof. Dr. Neža Pogorelčnik Vogrinc from the University of Ljubljana. The authors of the chapter are researchers from the EU-FamPRO consortium institutions.

The publication provides readers with a comprehensive analysis of Regulations 2016/1103 and 2016/1104, the most recent sources of European private international law on the property relations of cross-border couples, and the relationship of Regulations with other instruments. The publication aims to provide an effective multilingual tool for interpretation and application of these instruments.

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Second international conference of the EMPLOYS project, 17. 12. 2021

On Friday 17th December 2021 in Lisbon in a hybrid manner there was organised the second conference of the Erasmus + project EMPLOYS in which the Faculty is a partner. At the conference the key-note was Mr. Jose Manuel Araujo (European Olympic Committee), the athletes  Célio Dias & Sofia Gomes have given their point of view on the Project’s topic and the interim report of the scientific research on the employment relationship in Olympic sports in all EU-27 Member States + Norway and UK. Furthermore, there was organised a panel with Portuguese stakeholders and in the end there was a panel on the comparative prospective in Italy, France, Austria and Malta. More can be found in the programme.

Next conference will be organised in the beginning of 2022 at Edge Hill University (UK), a then at the end of April the Faculty will host the fourth conference with a topic on good governance. The Project will end in December 2022.
 

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International conference of sports law students 14th December 2021

On Tuesday 14th December 2021 the Centre for Sports Law Research of the Edge Hill University (UK) and the Sports Law, Sports Policies and Sports Diplomacy Centre of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law have organized an online international students conference on various sports law topics. The topics have been presented in a comparative manner, UK and Croatian prospective, and were on: Combatting Football Hooliganism: Legal Responses, The Labour (Employment) Status of Athletes, Sports Injuries and the Law: Actions in Negligence and Sports Violence and the Criminal Law.

On behalf of the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law the students who participated as speakers were: Gabrijel Prpić, Iman Mrkić, Riccardo Sgardelli and Leonarda Šenvald, all students form the course Sports Law of the IX semester of the Integrated study programme in law.

We are extremely proud of the way how our students have demonstrated a high level of legal knowledge in sports law and have, in a competent manner, equally professionally presented their topics in Legal English, like their colleagues from UK did. It has been concluded that this initiative will repeat regularly on an annual basis since it is in students’ interest to have such an experience but also because it has huge impact on the international visibility of the Faculty.

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