Faculty of Law, University of Maribor

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Dear students,

The Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for the Protection of Competition hereby announces a Public Call for Applications for the Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in the Field of Competition Law for 2026.

The purpose of the call is to encourage students’ research work in the field of competition protection, increase interest in competition law, and recognize outstanding professional and research achievements of young researchers.

The deadline for submitting applications is 30 September 2026.

Additional information is available via e-mail at: gp.avk@gov.si

On Thursday, 7 May 2026, Dr Damjan Kukovec, Judge at the General Court of the European Union, will deliver a lecture as part of the course EU Legal System and Institutions. The lecture will take place at 9:00 a.m. in the Auditorium Maximus lecture hall.

You are kindly invited to attend.

You are cordially invited to attend a guest lecture of dr. Sarah Ganty with the title "EU Asylum, Immigration and Integration Policy: Selected Issues". The lecture will be held on Monday, 14 March 2022, at 1 pm in the lecture hall Auditorium Maximum. The lecture will be held under the auspices of the Jean Monnet Module Fundamental Rights and EU Business Law and Policy.

Sarah Ganty, LL.M. (Yale), Ph.D. (ULB), is a FWO postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ghent and a guest lecturer at the Central European University in Vienna and at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels. Dr. Ganty is also a J. S. D. candidate at Yale Law School.

On Thursday, May 7, 2026, Dr Damjan Kukovec, Judge at the General Court of the EU, joined us for the course “Legal System and Institutions of the EU.” He delivered a comprehensive and specifically interesting lecture to the students on the rule of law in the EU, judicial protection, and the EU’s external action. 

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Judge Dr Kukovec for his exceptional lecture.

The Faculty of Law welcomed Czech judge Dr. Ivana Hrdličková, President of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon based in The Hague (2015 – 2023). Dr. Hrdličková delivered a lecture on International Criminal Law in the age of AI, drawing on her own experiences at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon in handling mega-data and related evidentiary challenges long before large-scale language models were made widely available.

We would like to thank Judge Dr. Ivana Hrdličkova for an extremely interesting lecture.

On Wednesday, April 22 2026, Prof. Dr. Saša Zagorc, professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, delivered a guest lecture as part of the course Legal System and Institutions of the EU. With an excellent lecture, Dr. Zagorc introduced the students to the intertwining of the national constitutional order, the ECHR, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

We would like to thank Dr. Zagorc for delivering the lecture.

On Thursday, 16 April 2026, Prof. Dr. Verica Trstenjak delivered a lecture within the course EU Legal System and Institutions. Prof. Dr. Trstenjak is a former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union and former Judge at the General Court of the European Union, a member of the Administrative Board of Review (ABOR) at the European Central Bank, and Vice-President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Prof. Dr. Trstenjak enriched her highly engaging lecture, entitled Judicial Protection in the EU: Between Maribor and Luxembourg, with numerous interesting insights into the functioning of the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as valuable advice for students. She also brought along the robe she wore during her tenure as Advocate General.

We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Trstenjak for her excellent lecture and look forward to her future visits to our faculty.

On January 27 2026, as part of the PEPP project in Zagreb, Associate Professor Dr. Petra Weingerl delivered a lecture entitled “On the assessment of discrimination in private law relationships.” The lecture attracted a lot of attention among the participants, which was followed by a lively discussion.

The Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates (PEPP) is held every year at four different locations of selected partner universities, within which doctoral students from various EU countries meet and deepen their knowledge in the field of European private law. This year, the program is being held in Münster, Zagreb, Cambridge, and Valencia.

The Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor is represented in the program this year by Assistant Matej Makoter Rožmarin and Assistant Nikola Jovanović.

On January 26 2026 Prof. Dr. Matjaž Tratnik delivered at the Faculty of Law of the University of Aruba on EU citizenship and Dutch nationality law. From 1990 to 1996, Dr. Tratnik was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Aruba in Oranjestad.

On Friday, December 19 2025, we hosted Judge H.E. Beti Hohler (International Criminal Court). The students had the privilege of hearing first-hand about the anatomy of proceedings before the International Criminal Court and the rich experiences of our guest.

We would like to thank H.E. Beti Hohler for an excellent and inspiring lecture.

On Wednesday, December 17 2025, we hosted Prof. Dr. Veronika Fikfak from University College London (UCL). Prof. Dr. Veronika Fikfak, professor of human rights and international law and director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights, delivered a lecture entitled: The Future of the European Court of Human Rights. The topic is extremely relevant in light of the announced reform of the ECHR.

We thank Prof. Dr. Fikfak for an excellent and highly interesting lecture!

As part of the course Judicial Protection System in the EU, the Faculty will host Mag. Nataša Pintar Gosenca, head of the international department of the State Attorney's Office of the Republic of Slovenia, on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. Mag. Nataša Pintar Gosenca will deliver a lecture at 11 a.m. entitled: Representation of the Republic of Slovenia before the CJEU and the ECHR.

Mag. Nataša Pintar Gosenca is an alumna of the Faculty of Law at the University of Maribor.

Jean Monnet Seminar Summary
Regulating Short-Term Rentals: The Interplay Between Housing Challenges and Market Freedoms
Date: Monday, 29 September 2025 • Format: Online (MS Teams)

Overview. The seminar examined how EU law, national policy, and local practice intersect in regulating short-term rentals (STR). Speakers from academia, EU institutions, and city government discussed legal constraints (Services Directive, Article 16 Charter), policy design, and on-the-ground implementation. Two cross-cutting themes dominated: proportionality (targeted, evidence-based restrictions) and data (registration, interoperability, and platform cooperation as prerequisites for enforceable, proportionate rules).

Opening (Dr Janja Hojnik, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor). Framed the core trade-offs—public interest vs. entrepreneurship, tourism vs. housing affordability, right to a home vs. free movement—set the seminar’s questions and objectives.

Slovenian framework (Dubravka Kalin, Director General for Tourism, Ministry of the Economy, Tourism and Sport). Presented the newly adopted Hospitality Act as the outcome of three decades of debate. The Act adds conditions and simplifications, introduces time limits and a risk-based classification of municipalities, and will lean more on digitalisation of STR. Faculty of Economics studies (Airbnb/Vrbo) were cited to show rapid STR growth outpacing safeguards for other interests.

Fundamental freedoms (Tim Horvat, Lawyer at the Court of Justice of the EU). Emphasised that housing rules are business regulations subject to CJEU scrutiny under Article 16 of the Charter. Reviewed key case law (including Alemo-Herron and AEON Nepremičnine) and stressed the centrality of the proportionality test.

EU law & policy landscape (Živa Šuta, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor). Asked whether, to what extent, and how the EU should engage on housing. Highlighted the rising role of EU law and the CJEU, again underscoring proportionality as the analytic lens.

Prof. Dr. Janja Hojnik lectured at the International Summer School of European Law at the Faculty of Law in Rijeka, which took place in Ika near Opatija in the second week of July. Two students from the Faculty of Law at the University of Maribor, Eva Ledinek and Lisa Elizabeth Strouken, also attended the summer school.

The students sincerely thank the organizer for all the kindness and dedicated knowledge and recommend the participation to other students next year. Prof. Hojnik lectured at the international summer school for the first time this year, which was an honor for them.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl delivered a presentation at the Summer School on Consumer Law on 24 June 2025, organised by the ERA – Academy of European Law based in Trier, Germany. In her lecture, Dr. Weingerl presented the concept of the consumer as it has developed through the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU, especially in the light of digitalisation.

On Friday, May 23 2025, as part of the course Legal System and Institutions of the EU, we hosted Associate Professor Dr. Katarina Vatovec, a lecturer at the New University and legal advisor at the Constitutional Court. Dr. Vatovec presented EU restrictive sanctions to the students in a very engaging way, which is an extremely current topic in both European and international contexts.

We sincerely thank Dr. Vatovec for giving the lecture.

On Thursday, April 10 2025, Prof. Dr. Verica Trstenjak, former Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the EU and former Judge at the General Court of the EU, and recently appointed Vice President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, delivered a guest lecture within the course Legal System and Institutions of the EU.

In an exceptionally engaging lecture, titled Legal Protection in the EU: Between Maribor and Luxembourg Prof. Dr. Trstenjak shared first hand insights into the functioning of the CJEU. She presented students with the robe she wore as Advocate General and introduced them to several other “iconic” EU items (e.g., the liqueur Cassis de Dijon).

We thank Prof. Dr. Trstenjak for an excellent lecture and look forward to her future visits to our faculty.

On October 1, 2024, a new Jean Monnet Chair project began at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, which was awarded to Full Professor Janja Hojnik by the European Commission for a period of three years.

The title of the project is "Everything as a Service (XaaS): Regulating the Digital and Sustainable Transformation of the Service Economy in the EU." Today, customers no longer just buy products; they increasingly pay only for (temporary) access to them. Thanks to major platforms such as Uber for ride-sharing, Netflix for streaming video content, and Google for cloud services, companies are recognizing the advantages of adopting "on-demand" or "as-a-service" business models. The topic includes economic, technological, and ecological aspects but remains under-researched in legal studies and practice.

The project will promote research and educational activities in this field, as well as international cooperation between the Faculty of Law in Maribor and the Faculties of Law in Leuven and Copenhagen. Both Slovenian and foreign students at the Faculty of Law in Maribor will be involved in the content.

For the academic year 2024/25, three master's thesis topics are announced in the field of the project:

• Extended producer responsibility under EU law (i.e., the obligation to care for the product after its use - an environmental topic in light of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia case at the EU Court of Justice)
• Short-term rental of real estate in light of the free movement of services in the EU
• The legal nature of cloud services under EU law: Between economic service and protection of sovereignty and personal data.

On Monday, November 18 2024, Professor Janja Hojnik participated in the committee for the defense of a doctoral dissertation at one of the most prestigious and oldest law faculties in Europe - KU Leuven (1425) in Belgium.

As part of the visit, a doctoral seminar was also organized, at which seven doctoral candidates, including our assistant Živa Šuta, presented the starting points of their doctoral research and answered questions and comments from professors and other researchers. The professorial committee included: professors Bert Keirsbilck and Evelyne Therryn from the Faculty of Law in Leuven, professor Vanessa Mak from the Faculty of Law in Leiden, and our professor Janja Hojnik.

At the invitation of Professor Keirsbilck, they also visited the KU Leuven campus in Kortrijk. The visit further strengthened ties between the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor and the Faculty of Law of Leuven.

As part of the EU law courses, we held an interesting event on Wednesday, 23 October 2024. During the guest lecture by Judge and Advocate General at the General Court of the EU, Prof. Dr. Maja Brkan, we conducted a joint online lecture session, in which both 5th-year students of the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, with Prof. Dr. Janja Hojnik, and 2nd-year students of the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, with Prof. Dr. Ana Vlahek, participated, along with members of the Slovenian Association for EU Law. Dr. Brkan lectured on the transfer of jurisdiction for preliminary rulings to the General Court of the EU.

We look forward to more joint lectures for students of both faculties with the help of modern technology.

This academic year, doctoral students Živa Šuta and Natalija Kunstek participated in the PEPP program – Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates, which brings together doctoral students from partner universities (University of Münster, Hamburg (Bucerius), Max Planck Institute Hamburg, Cambridge, Leuven, Valencia, Genoa, Zagreb, Katowice and Maribor) in four intensive study and research weeks. The program is organized under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Bettina Heiderhoff from the University of Münster, and the coordinator at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl.

This academic year, the PEPP project took place in Münster, Maribor, Cambridge and Valencia. Živa Šuta gave a presentation on the free movement of goods and services in the internal market in Cambridge, and Natalija Kunstek presented her doctoral research on the legal nature of tax authorities' explanations in Valencia. During the four weeks, the doctoral students attended lectures and workshops at partner universities and competed in a moot court on the jurisdiction of courts in disputes regarding tenancy relationships under the Brussels I bis Regulation and unfair commercial practices under the Unfair Contract Terms Directive and the Consumer Representative Actions Directive.

Doctoral students Živa Šuta and Natalija Kunstek would like to thank Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl and the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor for their support in participating in the program.

Welcome to study at the Master's program in European Legal Studies at Faculty of Law University of Maribor!

On Wednesday, May 29 2024, a workshop on deterrence in the context of private enforcement of EU law was held at the Faculty of Law, where Dr. Petra Weingerl presented the findings of the ARIS Z5-3220 postdoctoral project. Guests Dr. Bert Keirsbilck (KU Leuven), Dr. Lena Hornkohl (University of Vienna), Dr. Karmen Lutman (University of Ljubljana), and João Otávio Bacchi Gutinieki (University of São Paulo/University of Vienna) presented complementary and alternative perspectives on the issue. The workshop was moderated by Dr. Janja Hojnik.

On Friday, May 24 2024, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of Slovenia's EU membership with a round table. The attendees were welcomed by the Dean, Prof. Dr. Tomaž Keresteš, followed by an interesting discussion on the challenges that await the EU in the future, as well as a retrospective look at Slovenia's EU membership over the past two decades. The guests of the round table were Slovenian judges at the CJEU: Dr. Marko Ilešič, Dr. Maja Brkan, and Dr. Damjan Kukovec. The roundtable was chaired by Associate Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl, with members of the Chair of European and International Law participating as discussants.

Between 15 and 17 May 2024, the Institute for European Studies in Brussels (L'Institut d'études européennes), part of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), hosted the international scientific conference IDEAS24: (Dis)integration from an (in)equality perspective. Prof. Dr. Matjaž Tratnik and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl gave a lecture on "Legal Mobility vs. Nationality Based Inequalities" in the section entitled Mobility: A Tool for Reducing or Fueling Inequalities?. Asst. Živa Šuta gave a lecture on "Integration through integrated solutions: applying EU internal market principles to product-service bundles" in the section Assessing EU's Market-Based Approach to Equality.

On May 6 and 7 2024, a conference on European private law took place at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, where Associate Professor Dr. Petra Weingerl lectured on deterrence as a concept within the private enforcement of EU law.

Between 26 and 29 April, the team of the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor participated in the competition on European Union law, the Central and Eastern Europe Moot Competition (CEEMC), which is held as a simulation of the preliminary ruling procedure before the Court of Justice of the EU. The Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor was represented by students Eva Ledinek, Lana Simončič, Alenka Tabaković and Vita Višič under the mentorship of assist. Živa Šuta and assoc. prof. dr. Petra Weingerl. Competitor Lana Simončič received the 'Noted Speaker' award.

The competition is organised by the British Law Centre within the framework of the educational institution Juris Angliae Scientia Ltd under the auspices of the Court of Justice of the EU and the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge (CLES). The oral part of the CEEMC 2024 competition took place at the Prague Court before judges and advocates general of the Court of Justice of the EU and other experts in EU law. In the preliminary rounds, the central topic was the rule of law (interpretation of Article 19 TEU and Article 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights regarding the independence of national judges and Article 267 TFEU regarding the inhibition of the referral of a question for a preliminary ruling). After preliminary rounds against Sofia University and the University of Zagreb, the PFUM team managed to qualify for the semi-finals of the competition (Semifinals), where it also successfully competed with teams from Charles University and Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. The central topics of the semi-finals were the related reproduction right of film producers, the scope of the right of communication to the public, and the definition of the pastiche exception and its application in accordance with the InfoSoc Directive.

Sincere congratulations!

During the week of 15-20 January, the Faculty of Law hosted the PEPP - Programme in European Private Law for Postgraduates, which was attended by doctoral students from partner institutions (in addition to the PF UM, the universities of Münster, Cambridge, Leuven, Valencia, Genoa, Zagreb, Silesia, Katowice, Hamburg (Bucerius) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private Law in Hamburg).

The PEPP is organised under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Bettina Heiderhoff from the University of Münster, and coordinated at our Faculty by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl. Our Faculty was represented by doctoral students Živa Šuta and Natalija Kunstek. Other doctoral and Erasmus students were also invited to attend the lectures.

The lecturers at the PEPP programme were (in chronological order): Prof. Dr. Verica Trstenjak, Assist. Prof. Dr. Katja Drnovšek, Prof. Dr. Matjaž Tratnik, Prof. Dr. Martina Repas, Prof. Dr. Janja Hojnik, Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec, Prof. Dr. Emilia Mišćenić (University of Rijeka), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl, Prof. Dr. Bettina Heiderhoff, Prof. Dr. Damjan Možina (University of Ljubljana) and Prof. Dr. Tjaša Ivanc. We also visited the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia, where we were warmly welcomed and in a conversation with the President, Dr. Matej Accetto, the students learned a lot of useful information about the application of EU law at the Constitutional Court and about its cooperation with the CJEU. We also visited the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER).

The event was co-funded by the ARIS project Z5-3220, the Jean Monnet module Fundamental Rights in EU Business Law and Policy (FURBUS) and the NOO Pilot Project "Green and Digital Legal Transformation".

On 7 and 8 December 2023, the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor hosted a two-day International Conference Marking the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with eminent domestic and foreign experts in the field of international law. It was organized by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl and Prof. Dr. Matjaž Tratnik. Ass. Živa Šuta and other employees of the Faculty were of great help to them.

The opening address was given by the dean Prof. Dr. Tomaž Keresteš, who also led the first panel. The keynote lecture was given by Em. Prof. dr. Gerard-René de Groot (Maastricht University).

In the first panel, presentations were given by Prof. Dr. Erika de Wet (University of Graz), Prof. Dr. Jure Vidmar (Maastricht University), Beti Hohler, newly elected judge at the International Criminal Court, Prof. Dr. Liesbeth Lijnzaad (Maastricht University, judge at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)) and Benjamin Letzler (University of Vienna).

The first day of the conference ended with a round table chaired by Prof. Dr. Borut Holcman, and the guests were Prof. Dr. Saša Zagorc (University of Ljubljana), Prof. Dr. Janja Hojnik and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl (both from our Faculty).

Two panels were held on the second day. The first panel was chaired by Prof. Dr Janja Hojnik, and the lectures were given by Dr. Sarah Ganty (Yale Law School/Ghent University/CEU Democracy Institute), Dr. Marija Jovanović (University of Essex), Prof. Dr. Snježana Vasiljević (University of Zagreb), Prof. Dr. Jernej Letnar Černič (Nova University), Prof. Dr. Vasilka Sancin (University of Ljubljana, member of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Petra Weingerl.

The second panel was chaired by Assoc. Prof. Dr Petra Weingerl and the lectures were given by Prof. Dr. Matjaž Tratnik (University of Maribor), Prof. Dr. Dimitry Kochenov (Central European University), Em. Prof. Dr. Hildegard Schneider (Maastricht University), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Samo Bardutzky (University of Ljubljana), Dr. Ana Bobić (Court of Justice of the EU) and Em. Prof. Dr. Silvo Devetak (University of Maribor).

This semester, Professor Janja Hojnik is serving as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law in Leuven, Belgium. In this capacity, she is delivering lectures to Master's students as part of the Global Law program, focusing on the legal aspects of servitization in the EU. The course delves into innovative subjects, exploring megatrends such as the integration of products and services, digitization, and the circular economy.

Assist. Živa Šuta participated last month in a research visit at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (Det Juridiske Fakultet Københavns Universitet). Under the supervision of Prof. Ulla Neergaard, Živa researched the development of EU internal market law and worked on her doctoral dissertation on the topic of free movement of goods and services (Free movement of product-service systems in the EU internal market). She was a speaker at the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate, Energy, and Sustainability (https://jura.ku.dk/cilg/calendar/2023/xii-interdisciplinary-seminar-on-climate/), and at the end of her visit, she conducted an independent seminar for the members of the Center for European and Comparative Legal Studies (https://jura.ku.dk/cecs/) and law students. You can read more about her seminar at this link: https://jura.ku.dk/cecs/calendar/2023/free-movement-of-product-service-systems-in-the-eu-internal-market/.

The 63rd Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Public International Law was held in Washington, DC from April 8 to 15, 2023. Around 600 teams from around the world spent seven months intensively preparing written products (memorials for Applicant and Respondent) and practicing oral presentations or 'pleadings', which are held as a simulation of court proceedings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. This year's case covered issues of war or humanitarian law and peace agreements, the employment of war detainees to work with hazardous waste, economic sanctions and state liability for environmental damage. Competitors Patricija Glavica, Andrej Stanišić and Vita Višič achieved top results under the mentorship of Leon Brulc, assist. Živa Šuta, doc. dr. Petra Weingerl and Full prof. dr. Matjaž Tratnik: the award for the best written work in the world ('Alona E. Evans Award 1st place'), which is awarded for the highest combined score of both written works (memorials),recognition for qualifying for the elimination rounds of the oral part of the competition among the top 48 teams (Elimination rounds), Contestant Patricija Glavica received a full scholarship to attend the 'Orientation in the US legal system' training course organized by the International Law Institute in Washington, DC. She received the award as the best speaker from the team with the best written products from a country where English is not the native language.

The results are published on the official competition website. With these achievements, the competitors successfully competed with the most renowned law faculties and put the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana on the world map.

Participation in the competition was supported by the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, the Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Fund of the Republic of Slovenia, MADDIB doo, ATRIVA doo, Topdom TEHNO CENTER, OKROGELNIK doo, Robert Potnik sp, BERT sp, Robnik Robert sp, KOMORA doo, REMOPLAST doo, the Andragoški zavod Ljudska univerza Velenje and the Stamenković Law Firm. The Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Washington, DC welcomed the team and provided moral support during the competition. We sincerely thank everyone!

Look forward to this great success with us!

You are cordially invited to the guest lectures of Prof. dr. Stefan Enchelmaier from the University of Oxford. He will hold the following lectures (in English):

 - March 29 at 10:15 a.m.: course Comparative law and major legal systems (lecture room B)

 - March 30 at 8:45 a.m.: course EU Legal System and Institutions (lecture on Fundamental Principles of EU law), Auditorium Maximum

 - March 31 (tbc): discussion on legal studies and methodology

 - April 3 at 2pm: course Transnational Legal Studies (lecture on Free movement of goods in the EU)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Enchelmaier studied Law, Philosophy, and Latin at the universities of Cologne, Hamburg, and Edinburgh. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Bonn with a thesis on European competition law, and his habilitation from the University of Munich with a thesis on comparative Anglo-German personal property law. He also graduated LLM from the University of Edinburgh, and was conferred an MA by the University of Oxford. He held posts in Oxford (1997-2003); Max-Planck-Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich (2003-2008); and York (2008-2013). He returned to Oxford in 2013.

For more information, you can contact doc. dr. Petra Weingerl at petra.weingerl@um.si.

On Thursday, 22 December 2022, the Faculty of Law hosted a round table marking the 70th anniversary of the Court of Justice of the EU entitled The role of the Court of Justice of the EU in preserving the rule of law. After the opening remarks by the Dean, the discussion featured Slovenian judges at the Court of Justice of the EU, Dr. Marko Ilešič from the Court and Dr. Maja Brkan and Dr. Damjan Kukovec from the General Court of the EU, Professor Dr. Janja Hojnik and Mag. Igor Strnad, judge at the Higher Court in Maribor, presented their views on this topic. The round table was chaired by Dr. Petra Weingerl.

Dear students.

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For participating in educational workshops, students also receive certificates (in a portfolio), which you can attach to your CV.

She has received several research grants and recognitions, including a PhD fellowship from the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, an Universiteitsfonds Limburg (SWOL) grant and the Europa Prize 2008, which she received for notable academic achievements in several Member States of the European Union.

Marta Santos Silva has been working in academic and policy pan-European projects for the harmonisation of European Private Law since 2005 and has vast international experience in teaching and academic management. The perspectives and insights obtained in her career to date have led to her current research agenda which combines consumer law, digitalisation, and sustainability studies. She has been analysing the potential of nudges for fostering environmental sustainability and how it affects consumer autonomy. Currently, she is studying the virtues of essentialism for consumers and how consumer law can and should react to this alternative consumption trend.

Doc. dr. Petra Weingerl has started running two research projects. She was successful in the European Commission's Erasmus + call with the Jean Monnet Module "Fundamental Rights in EU Business Law and Policy (FURBUS)". The Jean Monnet Module, which will combine teaching and research in a highly topical area, will run for three years.

This semester, doc. dr. Weingerl also launched a postdoctoral research project entitled "Deterrence as a concept in private enforcement of EU law". The postdoctoral project, funded by the Slovene Research Agency (ARRS), will run for two years.

You are kindly invited to attend the activities of both projects.

Elisa Paredis, Ph.D. Researcher and teaching assistant, from Faculty of Law University of Leuven, Belgium is visiting our faculty this week. She will conduct interviews with us regarding the designations of origin of goods in connection with the promotion of Slovenian quality and will give a lecture for 3rd-year students as part of the EU Internal Market course.

We wish her a pleasant stay at Faculty of Law University of Maribor

Our faculty was represented by Nina Berglez, Ilona Osrajnik, Živa Šuta, and Eva Žagar, under the mentorship of Leon Brulec, Admir Muratović, doc. Petra Weingerl Ph.D. and prof. Matjaž Tratnik Ph.D.

The team of the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, achieved 84th place (Preliminary and Advanced Rounds) in the world part of the competition (Global Rounds) among 571 teams, which represents 15% of the best. Živa Šuta was ranked among the 250 best speakers (oralists), and Nina Berglez reached 296th place as a speaker (White & Case Advanced Rounds all oralists).

As part of the competition, the team also recorded a presentation video, which you can watch below.

Congratulations!

The Students Civil Litigation Moot was first organized as an in-house moot for students from the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor and is getting bigger every year, with students from the Ljubljana Faculty of Law having started participating in 2016 and other universities in the following years.

The competition is based on a civil litigation procedure. Students need to study the procedural background to successfully file a lawsuit and afterward also the facts of the given case, to successfully argue their case in front of the made-up tribunal.

You are cordially invited to watch the presentation video of the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, produced by the Slovenian Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (SQAA).

On March 1, 2021, the largest law competition, the Jessup Moot Court Competition 2021, began, a simulation of the proceedings before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. About 1000 faculties from all over the world take part in this competition every year!

The groups represented the 'Applicant' and the 'Respondent' and represented their solutions to 4 fundamental issues before recognized lawyers, judges, lawyers, and professors:

• Border closures during a pandemic
• Diplomatic asylum
• The jurisdiction of the ICTY and the responsibility of the Countries to shoot down an aircraft.

At the intercontinental battles, the Faculty of Law of UM was represented by: Živa Šuta, Nina Berglez, Ilona Osrajnik, and Eva Žagar under the mentorship of Leon Brulec, Admir Muratović, doc. Petra Weingerl Ph.D. and prof. Matjaž Tratnik Ph.D.

They received two awards, namely the Best Memorial for the Applicant and the Best Memorial for the Respondent, awards for the best-written documents of both parties.