International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in the Law and Law Related Fields – SPLITLAW 2026
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PROGRAM OF THE 3rd INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL AND POSTDOCTORAL CONFERENCE IN THE LAW AND LAW RELATED FIELDS „LEGAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT – CHALLENGES OF THE MODERN WORLD“ SPLITLAW 2026
Faculty of Law, University of Split
May 13-14, 2026
- DAY – MAY 13, 2026
REGISTRATION AT CONFERENCE DESK (09:00 – 09:30)
OPENING CEREMONY
Welcome Adresses – Conference Room Vijećnica 09:30 – 09:45
Ratko Brnabić, PhD., Associate Professor – Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Split
Željka Primorac, Phd., Full Professor – Vice Dean for Science and Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Law, Universitiy of Split, President of the Organising Committee
Ranka Jeknić, PhD., Assistant Professor – Vice Dean for for Quality Assurance and Inter-Institutional Cooperation, Faculty of Law, University of Split, President of the Program Committee
Plenary Session I. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Ratko Brnabić, PhD., Associate Professor)
09:50 – 10:10 István Szijárto: The Interplay Between the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) Framework Decision and the Framework Decision 2008/909/IB on the Mutual Recognition of Judgments Imposing Custodial Sentences
10:10 – 10:30 Dávid Tóth: Artificial Intelligence and Identity Theft as Economic Crime: Criminal Law Challenges to trust in the Digital Economy
10:30 – 10:50 László Köhalmi: The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Plenary Session II. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Marija Đuzel, PhD., Associate Professor)
11:00 – 11:15 Melinda Simonyi-Kovács: Prohibition of Double Assessment – The Problem of Tax Administration Proceedings Running in Parallel to Criminal Proceedings
11:15 – 11:30 István Hottó: Cross-Border Evidence and Fair Trial Guarantees in the EU Criminal Proceedings: Admissibility Dilemmas. In Hungarian Judicial Practice
11:30 – 11:45 Andrej Bozhinovski: Proving Innocence Through New Evidence: The Treatment of New Evidence in the Reopening of Criminal Proceedings
11:45 – 12:00 Tamás Károly Goricsán: Thoughts on the Effectiveness of Measures Against Money Laundering
12:00 – 12:20 Discussion
12:20 – 12:35 Coffee Break
Plenary Session III. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Matko Pajčić, PhD., Associate Professor)
12:35 – 12:50 Hrvoje Bralić: Causation in the Criminal Offence of Negligent Medical Treatment in Legal Doctrine and Croatian Case Law
12:50 – 13:05 Henrietta Németh-Kiss: The Impact of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence on the Criminal Law Assessment of Drug Trafficking in Hungary
13:05 – 13:20 Doris Skaramuca: Explainable AI as a Procedural Requirement of the Right to a Fair Trial
13:20 – 13:40 Discussion
13:40 – 14:40 LUNCH
Plenary Session IV. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Ines Medić, PhD., Full Professor)
14:40 – 14:55 Nikolina Tomaš: Functional Approach to the Recognition of Family Relationships in the Case Law of European Courts
14:55 – 15:10 Luka Roso: The Emergence of International Corporate Governance Law in Public International Law
15:10 – 15:25 Ivan Mikrut: Security of the European Union’s External Borders in the Context of Irregular Migration
15:25 – 15:40 Jelena Galić: Sources of Legal Regulation of Cross-Border Labour Mobility in the European Union
15:40 – 16:20 Discussion
- DAY – MAY 14, 2026
Plenary Session I. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Marija Boban, PhD., Full Professor)
09:00 – 09:15 Dalma Takó: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on International Treaties
09:15 -09:30 Hedvig Szabó: Legal Regulation of Artificial Intelligence – Based Disinformation and Deepfake Technologies in the European Union Protection of Democratic Electoral Processes and the Balance with Freedom of Speech
09:30 – 09:45 Lisa Marie Breyer: The Presumption of Conformity for Medical AI Under the AI Act: Structural Limits of MDR Conformity Assessment for Continuous-Learning Genetic Diagnostic Software
09:45 – 10:00 Katalin Izsák-Somogyi: Who Owns the Past in Public Spaces? Memory Politics, Cultural Heritage Protection and Legal Certainty in the European Union
10:00 – 10:20 Discussion
10:20 – 10:35 Coffee Break
Plenary Session II. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Marija Boban, PhD., Full Professor)
10:35 – 10:50 Hannah Hafenscher: Constitutionalizing Terms of Services? Article 14 (4) DSA and the Blurring of Public and Private Law in the European Union
10:50 – 11:05 István Harkai: Digital Markets Act (DMA) – The Sword That Cuts the Gordian Knot of Press Publishing Law Enforcement?
11:05 – 11:20 Julia Małgorzata Kalus: Fake – a Problem Itself or a Symptom of the Deeper Problem?
11:20 – 11:35 Alexandra Salnikov: Deepfakes Across Jurisdictions: Regulatory Approaches in Tennessee and Denmark to the Protection of Personal Characteristics
11:35 – 11:50 Dóra Rengel: The EU Regulatory Framework and Deepfake Child Sexual Abuse Material: Current Solutions and Future Directions
11:50 – 12:10 Discussion
12:10 – 13:10 LUNCH
Plenary Session III. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Dinka Šago, PhD., Full Professor)
13:10 – 13:25 Józsa Ede: Rethinking the Concept of Contractual Freedom in the Era of Smart Contracts
13:25 – 13:40 Sanja Čović Jurčević: Costs of Proceedings Before the Constitutional Court and the Right of Access to a Court in the Light of ECtHR Case Law
13:40 – 13:55 Tea Micevska: Illegally Obtained Evidence in International Arbitration
13:55 – 14:10 Fani Milan Ostojić: Key Characteristics of the Draft Proposal for the Amendments to the Consumer Protection Act 2025
14:10 – 14:25 Petar Rašetina: The Right of Co-owners to participate in the Management of Co-owned Property in the Republic of Croatia, with Special References to the Act on the Management and Maintenance of Buldings
14:25 – 14:40 Dorina Anna Tóth: Gender Role in Labour Law amid Historical and Contemporary Economic Transformations
14:40 – 15:00 Discussion
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break
Plenary Session IV. – Conference Room Vijećnica
(chair: Ranka Jeknić, PhD., Assistant Professor)
15:15 – 15:30 Zita Szakalne Szabo: The Legal Character of Hungarian Municipal Associations: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Challenges
15:30 – 15:45 Fines Fatimah: Silencing the Rainbow: Between Moral Panic and the Right to Defend Social Morality in Indonesia
15:45 – 16:00 Nguyen Thi Hang Diem Mi: The Actual Situation of Vietnam’s GI Legal Framework and the Measures for Its Maintenance and Development
16:00 – 16:20 Discussion
16:20 CLOSING CEREMONY
International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in the Law and Law Related Fields – SPLITLAW 2026
Organizing Committee
- Željka Primorac, PhD., Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia (President)
- Ratko Brnabić, PhD., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia (Co-President)
- Ines Medić, PhD., Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Marija Đuzel, PhD., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Marija Vidić, PhD., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Tomaž Keresteš, PhD., Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Wojciech Zalewski, PhD., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Gdansk, Poland
- Ante Šimun Majstorović, mag. iur., Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
Program Committee
- Ranka Jeknić, PhD., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia (President)
- Maja Proso, Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Marko Ivkošić, PhD., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Marin Keršić, PhD., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Ivana Radić, PhD., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Ana Radina, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Vedran Zlatić, PhD., Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Blanka Čop, PhD., PostDoc, Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Vesna Rijavec, PhD., Full Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Małgorzata Balwicka-Szczyrba, PhD., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Gdańsk, Poland
- Piotr Uziębło, PhD., Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Gdańsk, Poland
- Victor Garcia Yzaguirre, PhD., Faculty of Law, University of Girona, Spain
Technical Committee
- Petar Rašetina, mag. iur., Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Ivan Mikrut, mag. iur., Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia
- Daniela Nazor, dipl. Iur., Faculty of Law, University of Split, Croatia