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Dr Nina Peršak holds a doctoral degree in Law from the University of Ljubljana (2004), where her dissertation work dwelled on the issue of Harm Principle and the Continental Criminal Legal System. She has specialised in international criminal law (Siracusa, Sicily) and owns a Master's degree in social and developmental psychology (University of Cambridge, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences), and is currently holding an Assistant Professorship at the University of Ljubljana (2007-2012).
Dr Peršak has been Research Associate at the Scientific Research Centre at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) (2007 – present), the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (2004-2006), the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana (2002-2004), and used to work for the High Court in Ljubljana (1999-2001). She delivered invited lectures at the Faculty of Law in Helsinki, Finland (Nov. 2003 and April 2004), and the Faculty of Law in Uppsala, Sweden (Sept. 2005). She also serves as Permanent Court Interpreter for English Language (by the Decree of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia, 2001).
Dr Peršak has widely published in Slovenian and English at home and abroad, and is the author of the monograph, Criminalising Harmful Conduct: Harm Principle, Its Limits and Continental Counterparts (Springer: March 2007).