On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, we are pleased to present a special issue of the Journal of Criminalistics and Criminology...

A new monograph titled Legal, Ethical, and Medical Aspects of Triage, edited by Renata Salecl, has been published by Springer Nature. The book examines critical ethical, legal, and medical dilemmas...

Vasja Badalič presented a paper at the annual conference of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, between 27 and 29 August 2024. The paper,...

Between 22 and 24 August, Festival Grounded took place in Ljubljana. This year, the topic of the festival concerned racism, and amongst the speakers in the critical discussions regarding this issue...

On 5 July, our colleague Miha Hafner attended the kick-off meeting of the new EU project FOSTER (Fostering Child-Friendly Legal Environments through Collaborative Networks). The coordinating...

We kindly invite you to a lecture by Dr. Nina Beguš entitled "Artificial Humanities: Artificial Intelligence, Fiction, Ethics", which will be organised as part of our Tuesday Meetings on Wednesday,...

We invite you to a lecture which will be held by Dr Zoran Kanduč entitled "The war psychosis of liberal democracies and other geopolitical crime stories". It will take place on Thursday, June 13th...

Our young researcher Iva Ramuš Cvetkovič spoke about the genocide in Gaza in an interview for Radio Študent and in a column in Delo. Both can be found at the links below: Interview on Radio...

The Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana co-organises an international symposium entitled Who Cares for the People: from socialism to post-socialism. The symposium will take...

Dr Renata Salecl will be a guest lecturer at Hiroshima University on 22.5.2024. She will give a lecture entitled "Trauma and Ignorance: How people deal with memories of violence and war". The...

The European Court of Human Rights has elected Dr. Marko Bošnjak as its president. Dr. Bošnjak began his academic career as a junior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, where he later served...

The statement of the collective of the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana is available here. The statement was summarised for RTV Slovenia by our young researcher Iva Ramuš...

We kindly invite you to a Tuesday Meeting lecture by dr. Deniz Erkmen, titled »A Curveball and a Glimmer of Hope? Reflecting on 2024 Local Elections and Democratic Resilience in Turkey«, which will...

Registrations are now open for conference “Democratic backsliding in the era of permanent crises”, which we are organizing together with our partners within the project SOS4democracy. You can...

Renata Salecl will be a special guest at a talk entitled Apathy, Politics and Anxiety on 30 May 2024. The talk is organised by the Institute for Global Prosperity.

Renata Salecl attended a talk at the Bitef Theatre in Belgrade on 23.4.2024. The topic of the talk was Ignorance, Denial and Forgetting. The talk was moderated by Maja Pelević.

On Monday, 22.4.2024, Dr Renata Salecl will take part in a discussion about her book "Strast za neznanjem". The talk will take place at Zenit Books, Novi Sad, at 7 pm. The discussion will be...

Professor Aleš Završnik in Canberra at the Australian Judges' Training Days organised by the National Judicial College of Australia, 7 April 2024  

We are happy to invite you to a Tuesday Meeting with the recipients of the prizes for outstanding and above-average master's theses in the field of criminology and criminal law, awarded by the...

You are cordially invited to the Tuesday Lecture by Dr. Zoran Kanduč entitled "The Horrifying Circus of Western Liberal Democracies", which will take place on Tuesday, 26 March at 14:00 in the...

Our researcher dr. Jasmina Arnež gave a guest lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland on Wednesday, 28 February 2024 as part of The Crime, Justice & Society Seminar Series. In her...

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We kindly invite you to a Tuesday Meeting titled »Application of infra-law at the frontlines of emergencies / Uporaba infra-prava v kontekstu izrednih razmer« by dr. Matija Žgur, which will be held...

Professor Sveinung Sandberg from the University of Oslo has written a review of the book Negotiating Class in Youth Justice by our researcher Jasmina Arnež for the journal Theoretical Criminology....

Our researcher Dr. Kristina Čufar paid a study visit to the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg at the invitation of Slovenian judges Dr. Maja Brkan, Dr. Marko Ilešič and Dr. Damjan...

Our researchers Miha Hafner and Manja Skočir participated as national rapporteurs in a colloquium organised by the International Association for Criminal Law (AIDP) entitled "Artificial Intelligence...

Renata Salecl presented a French translation of her book A Passion for Ignorance in Paris. Les Éditions Stilus organized a debate between Renata Salecl and French psychoanalyst, Ronan Wellebrouck in...

In the framework of the Tuesday meetings, a lecture by Dr. T. Deniz Erkmen entitled "Resistance under Mobile Emergency Rule: Repression and Transformation of the Protest Scene in Authoritarian...

Our researchers Dr. Jasmina Arnež, Dr. Vasja Badalič, Prof. Renata Salecl and Prof. Aleš Završnik preseneted their papers at the ASC Annual Congress (photo: Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia,...

BREAKtheBIAS project seeks to address one of the most challenging problems in the international human rights system that of unequal access to human rights justice. It looks at the outcomes of...

Prof. Dr Aleš Završnik at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia on the opportunities and pitfalls of artificial intelligence on 8.11.2023: At the meeting called "Constitutional...

The European Project "Social Sciences for Democracy - SOS4democracy" invites you to submit paper abstracts for its first annual conference, "Democratic backsliding in the era of permanent...

On Friday, 20 October 2023, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl had a debate with prof. dr. Susanne Baer, former judge of The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The...

On Thursday, 5 October 2023, we celebrated the 90th anniversary of dr. Alenka Šelih, long-time Director and Researcher at the Institute of Criminology, as part of the National Criminology Conference...

Our researchers - Mojca Mihelj Plesničar, Jasmina Arnež, Lora Briški, Kristina Čufar, Matjaž Ambrož, Aleksej Jankovič and Vasja Badalič - presented their research achievements at the annual...

On Tuesday, 19 September 2023, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl spoke at a colloquium entitled "The legal professions towards the new technologies of production, calculation and digital...

On Wednesday, 20 September, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl, who is currently in Buenos Aires, will give a lecture as part of the Malba Writers' Residency activities. During the lecture, she will...

Today, on Wednesday, 13 September 2023, there will be a conversation in the framework of the MALBA Writers' Residency with our researcher dr. Renata Salecl, who is currently visiting Buenos Aires....

The AirBeletrina website has published an interview with our researcher dr. Renata Salecl, in which she discusses her latest book, Time of Roughness....

Our researcher, dr. Renata Salecl, has been chosen to participate in the Malba Writers Residence Programme, hosted in collaboration with the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires....

A new book by our researcher, Dr. Renata Salecl, titled "Humanovirus," has been published by the Spanish publisher Ediciones Godot. In this book, the author reflects on the altered mechanisms of...

Our Research Associate Jasmina Arnež has been awarded the British Society of Criminology's book prize for her monograph 'Negotiating Class in Youth Justice'

Our researcher, Dr. Renata Salecl, attended a discussion titled "Ignorance, Disillusionment, and the Law of the Jungle" at the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing on Saturday, June 24, 2023. The event...

The Slovenian Book Agency has published a short film about our researcher, prof. dr. Renata Salecl, which was produced on the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where dr. Salecl was the guest of...

The Director of the Institute, Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik, was a guest on the program "Intelekta" on Radio Slovenia's First Program. The guests of the program reflected on who will benefit and who will...

On Monday, 5 June 2023, at 6 pm, a talk with our researcher prof. dr. Renata Salecl and dr. Ana Kučan will take place in the Konzorcij bookstore under the title "A time of roughness, a time of...

Our researcher Prof. Renata Salecl will be a guest at the NaMestoKnjige festival in Nova Gorica on Thursday, 1 June 2023.  She will talk about her new book, Time of Roughness.

Our researcher prof. dr. Renata Salecl was a guest on the Champions of the Week ("Prvaki tedna") show on Radio Slovenia's First Programme. She spoke about the many visible and invisible mechanisms...

On Thursday, 18. 5. 2023, the Director of the Institute, prof. dr. Aleš Završnik, and our junior researcher Iva Ramus Cvetkovič attended the conference "Digitalization u pravu, zaštita privatnosti i...

On Wednesday, 10 May, our researcher dr. Renata Salecl will take part in a discussion at the Konzorcij bookstore on the different reception of refugeeism, refugeeism and the polarisation of all...

Between April and June 2023, our Research Associate Jasmina Arnež will be a Visiting Professor at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain. At the Department of Law, she will teach Spanish...

Mladinska knjiga has published a new book by our researcher dr. Renata Salecl - Time of Roughness. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the visible and invisible mechanisms of roughness to...

A scientific monograph Law and Artificial Intelligence: questions of ethics, human rights and social harm (Pravo i umjetna inteligencija: pitanja etike, prava čovjeka i društvene štete), edited by...

Our researchers Mojca Plesničar and Lora Briški attended the annual conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association in Derry-Londonderry (Northern Ireland), where they presented the findings of...

Our researcher prof. dr. Aleš Završnik was a guest on the show Panoptikum on TV Slovenia, whose topic was hate speech. The guests of the programme reflected on what hate speech is; how and why it is...

On Thursday, 23 March 2023, our researcher Dr Renata Salecl was a speaker at The Sky Assembly: towards a new human right conference, held in Toulouse, France, as part of Shona Illingworth's...

The Institute of Criminology welcomed a delegation from the Law Enforcement Academy in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and legal advisor mag. Goran Klemenčič with the prospect of future cooperation.

Between 2021 and 2023, the Institute of Criminology participated as a partner organisation in the research project Institutional, Legislative and Awareness Raising Solutions and Activities to...

Our researcher Dr Renata Salecl was a guest speaker in Rijeka last weekend. She gave a lecture on the tyranny of choice at the Women's Weekend conference, which brings together the most important...

In the framework of the Tuesday Meetings, a lecture by Professor Anthony Downey, entitled 'Decolonising Artificial Intelligence: Visual Strategies and Digital Methodologies in a Post-Digital Age'...

Our researcher dr. Renata Salecl was a guest on the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour podcast, where she talked about philosophy, anxiety, her book A Passion for Ignorance and her other research...

Naslov: Article written by Vasja Badalič published in Critical Military Studies Vsebina: The journal Critical Military Studies published a peer-reviewed article written by Vasja Badalič. The...

Vsebina novice: A new article, written by Vasja Badalič, was published in the Third World Quarterly journal. By combining theories on informal work with data collected through interviews with 39...

Our researcher dr. Renata Salecl was a guest on the podcast “Lovim ravnotežje”, where she spoke about her research on choice, conscious and unconscious ignorance, and the issue of angry men and the...

As part of the 30 Years, 30 Stories project, which is taking place to mark the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Slovenia and the United Kingdom and the 30th anniversary of the...

The Spanish publishing house Paidós has published a translation of Passion for Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why by our researcher Dr Renata Salecl.  ...

Palgrave Macmillan has published a monograph entitled Artificial Intelligence, Social Harms and Human Rights, edited by our researcher Prof. Dr. Aleš Završnik and Dr. Katja Simončič. The chapters in...

On 9 December 2022, our researcher Dr Renata Salecl gave a lecture on truth, ignorance and apathy in today's times as part of Vadim Fishkin's exhibition "The Island of the Day Before" at the eSeL...

The French publishing house Éditions Stilus has published the book Running on the Spot - The Subject as Hostage of Neoliberalism by our researcher Dr Renata Salecl in the Résonances collection.

A paperback edition of The Passion to Ignorance: What We Choose Not to Know and Why, by our researcher Dr. Renata Salecl, has just been published by Princeton University Press. The book is enriched...