The Faculty of Law Osijek, in collaboration with the Children’s Rights European Academic Network (CREAN), will host the 12th CREAN Ph.D. Symposium on 5 and 6 November 2026, centered around the theme “Exploring Emerging Horizons in Children’s Rights Research Across Disciplines and Contexts.”
The symposium brings together over 30 Ph.D. students from across Europe and around the world whose research focuses on children’s rights.
The keynote speakers will be:
- Jens Martin Scherpe, Ph.D., Professor of Comparative Law, Juridisk Institut, Aalborg University, Denmark – Children’s Rights to The Recognition of Their Parental Relationships
- Aleksandra Korać Graovac, Ph.D., Full Professor with Tenure, Faculty of Law Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Croatia – Children Conceived Through Medically Assisted Reproduction: The Right to Dignity, the Right to Be Cared for by His/Her Parents, and the Right to Non-Discrimination
- Roberta Ruggiero, Ph.D., Centre for Children’s Rights Studies, Université de Genève, Switzerland – Transformative Children’s Rights Research: Setting an Agenda from Compliance to Fulfilment
- Orsolya Szeibert, Ph.D., Full Professor, Eötvös Lorand (ELTE) University in Budapest, Hungary – Child’s Best Interests and Peculiarities of Child-Friendly Justice.
The symposium program and the book of abstracts are available below.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
