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dr. Jernej Letnar Černič
Jernej Letnar Černič is a Full Professor of Human Rights and Constitutional Law at the Faculty of National and European Studies at the New University.
So far, he has published numerous articles in Slovenian, English, Spanish, Italian, Swedish, and Romanian. He has recently published four scientific monographs on business and human rights: “Business and Human Rights: Slovenian and International Perspectives«, Nova univerza, 2023; »Business and human rights: Comparative Legal Analysis of the Role and Competences of the Slovenian Sovereign Holding in the area of business and human rights” (with Anja Strojin Štampar and Til Rozman, Nova univerza, 2021), “Corporate accountability under socio-economic rights”, Oxon, New York: Routledge, 2020. He has also co-authored and co-edited a book on »The Future of Business and Human Rights: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for a UN Treaty«, Cambridge; Antwerp; Portland: Intersentia. 2018 (with Nicolas Carrillo-Santarelli).
His work has been cited in reports by the United Nations, the European Parliament, and the Council of Europe, in decisions of the Slovenian Constitutional Court, and in academic studies from all around the world. He has been active in various roles in Slovenian and global civil society, participating in numerous domestic and international philanthropic projects.
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dr. Matej Avbelj
Matej Avbelj is a Professor of European Law and Prorector at the New University in Slovenia.
He graduated from University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law, obtained an LL.M at NYU School of Law and defended his PhD at the European University Institute. Dr. Avbelj has been awarded several prestigious international fellowships and research grants and has acted as a guest lecturer at many universities in Europe and the USA. He currently holds a Jean Monnet Chair at the New University dedicated to pluralism in the European Union. He has written extensively in the fields of EU law, constitutional law, legal theory and human rights protection. Dr. Avbelj is, inter alia, the editor in chief of the Commentary of the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia. His most recent books in English, for example, include: The Future of EU Constitutionalism (Hart 2023, editor). The Impact of European Institutions on the Rule of Law and Democracy in Slovenia and Beyond (Hart 2020, with Letnar Černič); The European Union under Transnational law (Hart, 2018); Research Handbook on Legal Pluralism and EU Law (Edward Elgar 2018, co-edited with Davies); Kadi on Trial: A Multifaceted Analysis of the Kadi Trial (Routledge 2016, co-edited with Martinico and Fontanelli). He has led or acted as a researcher on several research projects in the fields of European public law. He has been an active member of Slovenian and international professional and civil society organisations promoting the values of constitutional democracy. He has acted as a consultant for the public and private sector institutions in the fields of constitutional law, EU law and human rights protection.
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dr. Gorazd Justinek
Gorazd Justinek is assistant professor of International Business and assistant professor of international political, economic and business relations.
He is a former diplomat and a founding member of the Division for Economic Diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia. He has been for several years also the Head of the Division for Internationalisation at the Public Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for entrepreneurship and foreign direct Investments and during the Slovenia’s EU Council Presidency in 2008 the domestic macroeconomic and foreign economic relations adviser to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia. After Slovenia’s accession to the OECD, he became the coordinator of Slovenia’s representatives in the institutional bodies of the OECD in Paris and worked on the programme budget of Slovenia, macroeconomic analysis and reforms in public sector.
For two mandates he was the CEO of a non-governmental Foundation – Centre for European Perspectives, the key implementation body of the Republic of Slovenia’s development assistance in the Western Balkans and a research centre with several Horizont 2020 projects. He is the founder and Editor in Chief of International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy (Geneva), and a member of several other editorial boards of international scientific journals (Scopus and WoS).
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dr. Anja Strojin Štampar
Associate professor of civil and commercial law at the European Law Faculty of the New University and attorney – partner at Law firm Sibinčič Novak & Partners in Ljubljana.
She graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana in 1996 and passed the State Bar Exam in 1999. In 2002, she completed her LL.M in International Business Law at McGill University (Canada), and in 2004, she graduated from the University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Arts) with a degree in French language and General Linguistics. In 2017, she obtained her Ph.D. from the European Faculty of Law of the New University and in the same year, she obtained her MBA from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Ljubljana. As a lecturer, she teaches several courses in the field of commercial and civil law at undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes.
She is a partner at the Law firm Sibinčič Novak & Partners in Ljubljana. She works in the areas of corporate restructuring, corporate law, corporate governance and financial law. During her professional career, she worked at the SOE Kapitalska družba Pension Fund Management Company d. d. as Head of the Legal Department and Member of the Management Board and at the SOE Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SDH), d. d. as Member of the Management Board. With more than 15 years of experience in managerial and executive positions in companies, she has acquired in-depth legal and business knowledge in the field of asset management, pension funds and companies. She has also gained professional experience in various positions in the judiciary (judicial trainee, court clerc, attorney at law), from 2018 to 2023 as a senior counsel at the Law firm Jadek & Pensa in Ljubljana. She has also been a member of the supervisory boards of several Slovenian companies (Egoles d.d., Škofja Loka, Airport Ljubljana d.d., Zgornji Brnik, Krka d.d., Novo mesto).
She is the author of several written articles and lecturer at expert conferences (Days of Slovenian Lawyers, Days of Insurance, educational events of the Slovenian Directors’Association). In her research she focuses on corporate governance systems, management of state capital investments, social corporate responsibility and protection of human rights in business. She also participates in the preparation of good practice recommendations on corporate governance by the Slovenian Directors’Association. Among others, she is the author of the monograph Joint-Stock Company with Single-Tier Governance System (2018) and co-author of the monograph Business and Protection of Human Rights, Comparative Legal Analysis of the Role and Competence of Slovenian Soverign Holding d.d. in Respecting Human Rights (co-authored with dr. Jernej Letnar Černič and dr. Til Rozman, 2021) and Workers’ Representatives in the Management and Supervisory Bodies of Companies (co-authored with dr. Valentina Franca, 2022), and co-author of the proceedings of For Social Responsibility (FDV, 2018) and the proceedings of The State as a Good Governor (FDV, 2019). She has also worked as a researcher in the research group of the project ” Business and Human Rights” at the New University.