Department of Criminal Law – International Relations

The organization of scientific conferences by the Department is one of its activities that undoubtedly contributes to the professionalisation of the Department and promotion of its status and recognition not only in the academic environment but in the whole professional community. It is worth mentioning that these conferences are consistently and regularly attended by renowned experts from the academic community (professors, associate professors from the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic, and also from Hungary, Poland, Slovenia), and specialists from legal practice – representatives of the judiciary, Prosecutor’s offices, expert institutes, law offices, Prison and Guard Service of the Slovak Republic, Police forces of the SR, or other institutions concerned. It is a great honour for the Department that the name of the conference KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW, with the forthcoming seventh conference in June 2023, has become a synonym of high-quality organization of international scientific conferences and has created a forum for the exchange of opinions on current issues resonating across the professional community. The first conference KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW was convened in 2017 and continued the long tradition of international conference organization of the past as stated below:

• Scientific conference ”Current issues of Criminal Law”, Košice, 17^th September 1981
• Scientific conference with international participation ”Protection of basic rights and freedoms (personal rights) under the Criminal law rules”, Košice, 28^th April 1992
• International scientific conference ”Criminal Law on the threshold of the third millennium”, Košice 15^th-16^th May 2003
• Scientific conference with international participation ”Antiterrorist legislation”, Košice, 1^st December 2008
• Scientific conference with international participation ”Human trafficking”, Košice, 23^rd November 2009
• International scientific symposium ”Computer crime – juristic, criminalistic and criminological aspects”, Košice, 28^th March 2014
• International scientific conference ”Principles and maxims in Criminal Law”, Košice 16^th-17^th September 2014
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation ”Criminal policy of the state – history, presence and perspectives”, Košice, 4^th-5^th November 2015
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation ”Intersections of Criminal Law with other branches and scientific disciplines”, Košice, 23^rd-24^th November 2016
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation ”I. KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW – Perspectives of Development in the European Criminal Law”, Košice, 23^rd-24^th November 2017
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation “II. KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW – Injured Party and Victim of Crime, the possibilities of strengthening of their procedural rights”, Košice, 7th-8th November 2018
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation ”III. KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW – Criminological and organizational-technical aspects of privatization of Criminal Law”, Košice, 6^th-7^th November 2019
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation ”IV. KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW – Privatization of imprisonment, sci-fi or the only option?” Košice, 2020 – due to the COVID 19 pandemic the scientific conference was not organized, Conference proceedings published only
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation ”V. KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW – Privatization of Criminal Law – what’s next?”, Košice, 15^th-16^th June 2021
• Interdisciplinary national scientific conference with international participation ”VI. KOŠICE DAYS OF CRIMINAL LAW 2022: The value direction of Criminal Law”, Košice, 22^nd-23^rd June 2022.

The Department maintains and enhances cooperation not only with the departments of its kind in the Slovak Republic but also with the academic staff and officials of all departments of criminal law at various faculties of law in the Czech Republic. In this regard, it is important to underline the cooperation with Prof. Dr. Nagy Anita (university professor) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Miskolc in Hungary, who as a co-worker directly participated in the project APVV-16-0362 ”Privatization of Criminal Law – substantive, procedural, organizational-technical and criminological aspects” during the 2017-2021 period.