Author Archives: Svan Relac

CfP: CEENJ 2023 Padova

The 2023 CEENJ (Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence) Conference is to take place at the premises of the University of Padova (Italy), School of Law, Department of Private law and Critique of Law; on September 21 and 22, 2023.

CEENJ was founded in 2005. Previous conferences of CEENJ were held in Pécs (Hungary), Osijek (Croatia), Graz (Austria), Rijeka (Croatia), Maribor (Slovenia), Belgrade (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Skopje and Ohrid (Macedonia), Łódź (Poland), Brno (Czech Republic), Vilnius (Lithuania), Riga (Latvia), Zagreb (Croatia), Bratislava (Slovakia), Warsaw (Poland).

The topic of the the 2023 CEENJ conference – as in previous editions – is very broad: “Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe: Work in Progress 2022”. The deadline for submitting papers is 10 July 2023.

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Forthcoming Seminar: Marin Keršić, Balancing of Constitutional Rights

Marin Keršić, Ph.D. (Department of Theory of Law and State, University of Split, Faculty of Law), Balancing of Constitutional Rights

Commentator: Goran Selanec, LLD. (Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia)

The Seminar will take place live on May 4th, 2023, 6pm, Ćirilometodska 4, lecture room VII (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb). The Seminar is organized by the Zagreb Legal Theory Group and Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (Croatian IVR section).

Language of the Seminar is Croatian.

For those unable to attend live, lecture will be streamed via https://meet.google.com/kpm-iffh-qbp

CfP: 15th CEE Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists

15th CEE Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists will take place on 14-15th September 2023 in Kraków, Poland.

The conference is aimed at students, PhD students as well as young post-docs and professors coming from all over the world (not only from Central and Eastern Europe).
The conference language is English. If you wish to participate, please send an abstract of about 300-500 words at cee.forum2023@gmail.com by 30th of June 2023.

A detailed CfP can be found here.

CfP: 10th Student Conference in Theory and Philosophy of Law

10th Student Conference in Theory and Philosophy of Law will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade on 13-14 November 2022 in a hybrid format. The topic of the Conference is “Law and Digital Technologies”.

The application deadline is August 20th 2023.

Please find here the extensive Call for Papers (in Serbian).

Forthcoming Seminar: Davor Petrić, Interpreting EU Law

Davor Petrić, Ph.D. (Department of European Public Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law): INTERPRETING EU LAW: LEGAL REASONING OF NATIONAL
COURTS IN THE PRELIMINARY RULING PROCEDURE

Commentator: Marin Keršić, Ph.D. (Department of Theory of Law and State, University of Split, Faculty of Law)

The Seminar “Interpreting EU Law: Legal Reasoning of National Courts In The Preliminary Ruling Procedure” will take place live on February 24th, 2023, 6pm, TRH 3, lecture room IV (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb). The Seminar is organized by the Zagreb Legal Theory Group and Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (Croatian IVR section).

Language of the Seminar is Croatian.

For those unable to attend live, lecture will be streamed via https://meet.google.com/kpm-iffh-qbp.

Kent Greenawalt (1936-2023)

In memoriam for Kent Greenawalt, a preeminent legal philosopher and scholar:

In Memoriam: University Professor Emeritus Kent Greenawalt

Article on the Croatian Legal Science

An article “Understanding of Legal Science in Contemporary Course Textbooks on Positive Law Subjects at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb”, written by Luka Burazin and Svan Relac, was published in the recent number of Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu (Collected Papers of Zagreb Law Faculty).

The full text of the article (in Croatian) can be found here.

Article on the Applicability of Legal Norms

An article “Applicability of Legal Norms”, written by Anita Prusina, was published in the recent number of Pravnik: časopis za pravna i društvena pitanja (The Lawyer: law and society review).

The full text of the article (in Croatian) can be found here.

CfP: 1st CALSP Student Conference

The Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (CALSP/IVRCroatia) is organizing a student conference in legal theory.

The 1st CALSP Student Conference: “Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory andPhilosophy of Law, 2023” will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb on May 5, 2023, with the possibility of online participation.
Contributions to a wide range of legal issues, from legal philosophy and analytic legal theory to social theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and historical, sociological, economic, etc., studies of law with strong conceptual, theoretical or philosophical content are also acceptable. Applications are open to all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and run until February 28, 2023.

Full text of the call can be found here.

Book promotion: Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity: Challenges to the European Union and Western Balkans

The international conference “Ethnic Diversity, Plural Democracy and Human Dignity: Challenges to the European Union and Western Balkans” will be held on November 4, 2022, starting at 3:30 pm CET at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb (Trg Republike Hrvatske 3, hall IV).

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences, and the Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and the State (Croatian IVR section).

For remote online participation, please contact mario.kresic@pravo.hr

Extensive information and the Conference program can be found here.