Full Professor Janja Hojnik, Ph.D.

E-mail: janja.hojnik@um.si
Telephone: +386 (0)2 250 42 77
Office: 205/3
Office and Tutoring hours
Department: Department of European and International Law and International Cooperation, Department of Civil, International Private and Comparative Law
Courses:
  • EU LEGAL SYSTEM AND INSTITUTIONS
  • ENGLISH LEGAL TERMINOLOGY
  • EU INTERNAL MARKET LAW
  • ADVANCED ENGLISH LEGAL TERMINOLOGY
  • LEGAL ASPECTS OF DIGITAL ECONOMY
  • THE EU SYSTEM OF JUDICIAL PROTECTION
  • LEGAL PRINCIPLES AND ECONOMIC POLICY OF THE EU INTERNAL MARKET
  • LEGAL ASPECTS OF DIGITAL ECONOMY IN THE EU
  • EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL REMEDIES
  • LEGAL CHALLENGES OF EU INTERNAL MARKET
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Biography:

Janja Hojnik is Full Law Professor of the University of Maribor, Faculty of Law. Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Law in Maribor (2023-2027) and Head of the European Legal Studies Programme (since 2019). Former Vice-Rector of University of Maribor for Quality, HR and Legal Affairs (2018-2022). Before that Vice-Dean for Research and International Relations (2015-2018) and Head of Doctoral Programme (2016-2018) at Faculty of Law UM. Doctor of Juridical Science with diplomas in law and economics and with State Juridical Exam. Advisory Board member of the Common Market Law Review (Leiden University). Global Law Professor at KU Leuven Faculty of Law and Criminology in 2023. Member of an international and interdisciplinary experts' group dealing with new technologies (Brown Bag Lunch Group). Enrolled on PhD Studies of History at the Faculty of Arts UM (since 2023). 

Teaching and researching in the field of EU Law (internal market law, focusing on goods and services, price regulation, servitization, international trade, digital economy). Also interested in topics of legal research assessment, integrity in research and conflicts of interests in academia. Up to date holder of three Jean Monnet projects of the European Commission, most recently a Jean Monnet Chair on EU law aspects of smart and sharing economy. Visiting lecturer at Universities of Ljubljana, KU Leuven, University of Vienna, University of Oxford, Sciences Po (Paris), University of Trieste, Charles University (Prague), University of Sarajevo, Kingston University (London), Luxembourg University, Karel Franzens University (Graz), Central European University (Budapest), Edinburgh Napier University etc. Coaching teams for the EU Law Moot Court Competition, supervising students involved in Amicus Curiae project; supervisor for over 100 students’ theses at all study levels; organiser of the negotiations competition for Slovenian law students since 2005. Member of a group of authors preparing a commentary on the Treaty on Functioning of the EU for Springer Publishing (eds. Blanke/Mangiameli), responsible for provisions on free movement of goods. Her quality work was recognized on numerous occasions with various acknowledgments. Between 2011 and 2022 she has been voted six times among 10 most influential lawyers in Slovenia.

Selected bibliography:

  • HOJNIK, Janja. What shall I compare thee to? Legal journals, impact, citation and peer rankings. Legal studies. june 2021, vol. 41, iss. 2, pp. 252-275.
  • HOJNIK, Janja. Tell me where you come from and I will tell you the price: ambiguous expansion of prohibited geographical price discrimination in the EU. Common market law review. 2019, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 23-60.
  • HOJNIK, Janja. Ecological modernization through servitization: EU regulatory support for sustainable product-service systems. Review of European, comparative & international environmental law. July 2018, vol. 27, iss. 2, pp. 162-174.
  • HOJNIK, Janja. Technology neutral EU law: digital goods within the traditional goods/services distinction. International journal of law and information technology (Oxford). 2017, 25, 1, pp. 63-84.
  • HOJNIK, Janja. The servitization of industry: EU law implications and challenges. Common market law review. 2016, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1575-1624
  • HOJNIK, Janja. Free movement of goods in a labyrinth: Can Buy Irish survive the crises?. Common market law review. 2012, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 291-326