Contemporary Legal Challenges

Abstract

Human activities are becoming borderless and the importance of the role of law in this area is unquestionable. Contemporary legal challenges obviously raise different and at the same time similar problems clearly and manifestly apparent in each state in various fields of law. In order to govern the legal effects of globalization, cooperation has no alternative. It entails the approximation of legal regulations and establishes joint operations in order to solve, among others, cross-border issues and matters having EU relevance. Projects of cooperation between two neighbouring faculties (Pécs and Osijek) represent a bridge to a new and improved way of conducting research. That is why the Faculty of Law, University of Pécs and the Faculty of Law of Strossmayer University have found it inevitable to continue common research and student exchange program, institutionalized by EUNICOP project, in the framework of SUNICOP (Strenghtening UNIversity Cooperation Osijek – Pécs, SUNICOP HUHR/1001/2.2.1/0003) project. SUNICOP, similarly to EUNICOP, is a one-year-long common research and curriculum development project being co-financed and supported by the European Union through the Hungary-Croatia IPA Cross-border Co-operation Programme and by the two participating law faculties. The SUNICOP project is operated in various interrelated areas and through different activities. One of these activities was the conference called ‘Contemporary Legal Challenges: EU – Hungary – Croatia’, organized by the Faculty of Law of Strossmayer University on 16-18 February 2012. The conference, where knowledge gained during the joint research activities was shared, successfully brought together researchers, and various fields of law were dealt with. This volume contains all contributions written and presented in English during the conference. Two additional volumes, which include the Hungarian and Croatian versions of all conference materials, are published on the website of the project as well. Pécs – Osijek, 13 July 2012 The editors