The goal is for students to reconsider their attitudes, deepen their own knowledge and develop skills in order to be able to think critically about legislation, improve it in the future and ensure its proper application.
"Gender, law and justice" is the name of the summer school organized by the Faculty of Law of the University of Zenica and the TPO Foundation from September 4 to 6 in Zenica. The summer school will be held as part of the UNIGEM project (Gender Mainstreaming), will gather more than 30 students of law faculties from Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina and will include lectures, panel discussions, trial simulation and workshops.
- Students will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge in the subject area. The school's program has been carefully designed so that we will deal with issues of gender equality in a legal context, especially taking into account the events that stirred up the public in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I am referring to cases of femicide. I want to emphasize the importance of practical activities, including trial simulation, which will enable students to apply theoretical knowledge in real legal situations. I am especially glad that we will have lecturers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region, and that Mirsad Ćeman, judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will participate, said Prof. Dr. Larise Velić, dean of the UNZE Faculty of Law
Assoc. Ph.D. Dženana Radončić, vice-dean for scientific and research work of the UNZE Faculty of Law, stated that a large number of participants of the summer school will have the opportunity to learn from a diverse team of lecturers, in addition to legal theorists, and judges of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, judges of the first instance court, representatives of the legislative authority and an activist from civil society, "through which she will gain insight into different perspectives and experiences".
- The composition of lecturers indicates that we will focus on practical and interactive work through workshops, discussions and a final trial simulation, so that students can critically analyze the ways in which legal regulations, policies and practice can contribute to the maintenance of gender stereotypes or, on the other hand, to support gender equality. We are working on one of the most important topics today - gender justice with one of the most important target groups, because it is these future lawyers who will be key to achieving essential, not just formal, justice and equality for everyone in society, said Dženana Radončić.
According to her, the goals of the Summer School are for students to reconsider their attitudes, deepen their own knowledge and develop skills so that they can think critically about legislation, improve it in the future and ensure its proper application.
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