Publish date: torek, 22. oktober 2024 | Expiration date: petek, 31. oktober 2025
Award was granted to the Institute of Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law, Faculty of Law, University of Graz for its significant contribution to the progress and prestige of the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor. The award was presented on the Day of the Faculty of law, University of Maribor on 11 October 2024.
The work of the Institute of Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law, Faculty of Law, University of Graz focuses on austrian, european and international civil procedural law, including its links with commercial and civil law, insolvency and restructuring law, credit insurance law, enforcement law, procedural law dogmatics and legal issues at the interface between civil procedural law and substantive law. The Institute's Chair, Prof. Dr. Bettina Nunner Krautgasser, who is also council member of the Institute of Civil, Comparative and Private International Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor and of the Accsess to Civil Justice portal (ACJ), is a professor of Civil Procedure Law at the University of Graz. Prof. Dr. Nunner Krautgasser is also the author or co-author of numerous publications and highly regarded textbooks. It must also be highlighted that Prof. Dr. Nunner Krautgasser has always been willing to share her wealth of expertise and experience with partners, especially with partners in Maribor.
The long-standing cooperation between the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor and the Faculty of Law in Graz, as the two closest law faculties in the region, began in 1992. The Institute of Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law has a special place in this cooperation, as since the time of its former chair, the esteemed Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Jelinek, numerous joint activities have been taking place, ranging from joint seminars to research projects. Prof. Dr. Bettina Nunner Krautgasser has continued to be very supportive of her Institute's outstanding willingness to cooperate with the Institute of Civil, Comparative and Private International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor and the Institute of Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law, Faculty of Law, University of Graz remains the first partner in the long-standing successful application and implementation of projects in the EU programme on cooperation in the field of civil and criminal justice.
As Prof. Dr. Bettina Nunner Krautgasser was temporarily detained, the award was accepted by the Chair of the Institute of Civil, Comparative and Private International Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor Full Professor Dr. mult. Dr. h.c. Vesna Rijavec.
Publish date: četrtek, 3. oktober 2024 | Expiration date: torek, 28. oktober 2025
With the start of the new academic year 2024/2025, a new Law and AI laboratory has started operating at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor.
The Law and AI Lab is a pioneering research hub dedicated to exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and law. Its mission is to train the next generation of legal professionals who can effectively navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by AI.
Lab is at the intersection of computer science knowledge and in-depth legal expertise.
Based on the Law and AI Lab, clinics, summer schools, and specialized courses can be offered to prepare law students to navigate the fast-evolving landscape of AI technologies in legal practice.
We kindly invite all those interested to join us in the work at the laboratory!
Publish date: petek, 6. september 2024 | Expiration date: torek, 31. december 2024
Dear Sir / Madam!
You are kindly invited to a SEMINAR on the revised Regulation (EU) 2020/1784 on the service of documents organised in the framework of the DIGI-GUARD project (Digital communication and safeguarding the parties’ rights: Challenges for European civil procedure), coordinated by the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor (https://www.pf.um.si/en/acj/projects/pr10-digi-guard/). The seminar is free of charge and will take place on 23 September, starting at 16:00. The seminar will be held online via the ZOOM app.
We kindly ask you to register for the seminar using the online form at the following link: https://forms.gle/uMxNpt4Rd2cCJjbTA
Speakers:
16.00: Prof. dr. Tjaša Ivanc: Uvodno o projektu Digi-Guard (in Slovene)
16.20: Dr. Urška Kežmah: Pravni vidiki vročanja z ozirom na nove tehnologije (in Slovene)
16.50: Dr. Boštjan Kežmah: Tehnični vidiki e-vročanja (in Slovene)
17.20: Petra Zupančič: Vročanje z vidika operaterjev (in Slovene)
17.50: Sabina Valek Derganc: Revision of the Regulation on service of documents (in English)
Haldi Koit: Revision of the Evidence Regulation (in English)
e-EDES digital system for the exchange of e-evidence
19.30: Questions
Publish date: petek, 5. julij 2024 | Expiration date: torek, 31. december 2024
Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec is also the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the REWI Faculty at the University of Graz!
In his address, the Dean of the Faculty Christoph Bezemek, recalled the impressive career of Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec and underlined her importance as a mediator between worlds and disciplines. Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec has been associated with the University of Graz in many ways since 1994. In the context of her research and teaching collaboration with the Institute of Civil Procedure and Insolvency Law, she initiated the "Common Lecture" lecture series, the conference series and a number of joint EU projects. Since 2004, Prof. Dr. Rijavec has been regularly transferring her knowledge as a lecturer at the University of Graz and has supported students in the writing of their theses and doctoral dissertations. In addition, she has participated as an expert in, among other things, the evaluation of the research activities of the Department of Private Law.
On Friday, 26. January 2024, Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec was awarded a second honorary doctorate, this time by the University of Uppsala in Sweden. Before the ceremony, Prof. Dr. Rijavec gave a lecture entitled: Right to a Legal Remedy in the European Judicial Area. Prof. Dr. Rijavec has been cooperating with the Faculty of Law of Uppsala University for many years on EU research projects in the civil justice programmes coordinated by the Faculty of Law of the University of Uppsala. Links have also been forged in other international meetings, especially in the field of civil procedural law and private international law. It is also worth pointing out that doctors and professors at Uppsala University in Sweden wear black half-cylinders with the university's emblem.
Publish date: sreda, 8. maj 2024 | Expiration date: četrtek, 29. maj 2025
The consortium comprising of eight partner institutions and overseen by the Faculty of Law of the University of Maribor, convened an expert meeting in Hannover (Germany) from December 14th to 16th, 2023, as part of the EU-funded "Digi-Guard" project.
The project focuses on addressing challenges related to electronic service of documents, electronic evidence, and videoconferencing in civil and commercial matters across EU borders.
Apart from the University of Maribor, project partners include Leibniz Universität Hannover, Universiteit Maastricht, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Pravni fakultet, Universität Graz, Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, and Cepris d.o.o.
Attending members of the Maribor Faculty of law include Prof. Dr. Vesna Rijavec, Prof. Dr. Tomaž Keresteš, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Katja Drnovšek, Assist. Dr. Denis Baghrizabehi, and Jasmina Klojčnik.
The participants outlined crucial guidelines for the project's final research phase, particularly emphasizing the need for comparative legal analyses. These analyses will draw upon a comprehensive collection of national reports from the 15 EU Member States to identify effective procedural legal frameworks and opportunities for adopting best practices or achieving future harmonization.
