Briški, Lora

Lora Briški is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminal Law. After completing her master’s degree in law, she worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, where she participated in research projects on decision-making in the criminal justice system, sexual offences and the reform of sexual criminal law, penal policy concerning different types of crime, and the legal aspects of triage during the COVID-19 epidemic. In 2023, she obtained her PhD with the dissertation “Modifying the dispute parameters in criminal procedure” and, in the same year, took up a position at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. She remains actively involved in several research projects, continuing her collaboration with the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law. Her teaching and research focus primarily on criminal procedure law and criminology.

Selected publications

Briški, Lora: Modification of criminal charges: European line between a Kafkaesque process and a fair trial, New Journal of European Criminal Law 16 (2025) 2. Available at: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/20322844251348130

Briški, Lora: Redistribution of responsibility in framing criminal charges? An empirical study of the modifications of charges during criminal trial in Slovenia. Studia Iuridica Lublinensia 34 (2025) 1. Available at: https://journals.umcs.pl/sil/article/view/17277/pdf

Briški, Lora, Mihelj Plesničar, Mojca: Medigra zakonodajalca in sodišč pri oblikovanju kaznovalne politike: analiza začetnih učinkov spremembe prepovedanega prehajanja meje ali ozemlja države v kazenski zakonodaji. Revija za kriminalistiko in kriminologijo 76 (2025) 1. Available at: https://www.policija.si/images/stories/Publikacije/RKK/PDF/2025/01/RKK2025-01_LoraBriski_MedigraZakonodajalcaInSodisc.pdf

Briški, Lora: Meje spreminjanja opisa kaznivega dejanja iz obtožnega akta v sodbi: napolnjevanje zahteve po objektivni identiteti med obtožbo in sodbo. Pravnik: revija za pravno teorijo in prakso 80 (2025) 1/2.

Briški, Lora: Položaj otroka kot oškodovanca v kazenskem postopku. V: Šelih, Alenka, Filipčič, Katja, Briški, Lora (eds.), Otrok kot žrtev kaznivih ravnanj. Slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti: Inštitut za kriminologijo pri Pravni fakulteti: Pravna fakulteta, Ljubljana 2024.

 

Current projects

FOSTER: Fostering Child-Friendly Legal Environments through Collaborative Networks. JUST Lump Sum Grants. Member of the research team.

 

Unofficial psychedelic-assisted therapy in Slovenian legal framework. Research project ARIS J5-50170. Member of the research team.

 

The Rise of Illiberal Democracies: A Criminological and Socio-legal Analysis. Research project ARIS ARIS J5-50174. Member of the research team.