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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.

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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.

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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.

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Agreement with ACI

The Faculty of Law in Rijeka is one of four faculties of the University of Rijeka which on 9 July 2019 signed an agreement on cooperation with ACI. This is the opportunity for the Faculty academics to transfer their scientific skills and knowledge to the economic sector.

Digital market and new legal regulation

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 4 July 2019, was the session titled “Current Issues in Digital Single Market”. Discussion identified some typical legal problems encountered by entrepreneurs when dealing with new digital technologies and showed that the existing rules are sometimes not sufficient, but also that introducing new rules at the very beginning inevitable opens certain questions and leaves ample room for improvement. This session is organized as a part of the UNIRI project no. 18-214 “Efficient regulation of digital market as an Incentive for the innovation in the ICT sector”. Participants to the session were: the members of the project team Vlatka Butorac Malnar and Danijela Vrbljanac from PRAVRI and Stefano Pellegatta from Italy.

The full programme with abstracts is available here.

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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.